 I won the toss, sir, and Hades went off once more discomfited. This is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that I have a friendly game with that gentleman.  The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Página 390por Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1925Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Maximilien de Béthune duc de Sully - 1812 - 446 páginas
...more faithful than d'Ossat, who nevertheless was sent to this court to manage those of the King. But this is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that this ecclesiastic has suffered from me, and will again, the reproach of having not only exceeded, but... | |
 | 1822 - 472 páginas
...to make the " amende honorable" to Messrs. Waddington and Hanbury in the next number of the Review. This is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that an author has to complain, not of the sternness and severity, but the illiberality and injustice of... | |
 | Anne Marsh- Caldwell - 1845 - 666 páginas
...duty, gratitude, love, have now bound him by indefeasible ties. He thinks " " Sir, he is in love. It is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that the world has been lost for love. A man in love is prepared for all sacrifices, I know : when he talks... | |
 | Mme. Lucien Davesiès de Pontès - 1858 - 532 páginas
...not a little enraged; nor does he find much consolation in the dwarf's sarcastic observation, that it is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that "craft has prevailed where violence has failed". In vain does he offer half the treasures he hopes... | |
 | Mme. Lucien Davesiès de Pontès - 1858 - 522 páginas
...not a little enraged; nor does he find much consolation in the dwarf's sarcastic observation, that it is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that "craft has prevailed where violence has tailed". In vain does he offer half the treasures he hopes... | |
 | M. G. de Wczele (Count.) - 1859 - 246 páginas
...is far away with the king, your father," said the lady. " But I am here — let me defend you." It is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that gratitude has been the parent of love in the breast of a woman. Young Axel dishonestly took advantage... | |
 | 1873 - 876 páginas
...Peter to Rome, ever should have been called in question. But what will not party spirit attempt ? It is not the first time nor will it be the last that partisans will seek to rid themselves of troublesome facts by downright denial of them. This spirit,... | |
 | 1883 - 558 páginas
...intervention of God, that alone explains Palestine and the Hebrews from the conquest to the monarchy. It is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that those who try to discredit the Bible are found discrediting the most solid monuments of history purely... | |
 | Thomas Sinclair - 1886 - 236 páginas
...rule. To any seeing traveller the present ruins of Rome has the saddest message of history to tell. It is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that the lean kine have eaten up the fat. The slime of Papal meanness is spread over all the beauty of an... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1899 - 934 páginas
...near I have been to another world. For about six weeks I have been in utter doubt ; it was a toss up for life or death all that time ; but I won the toss,...not the first time, nor will it be the last, that 1 have a friendly game with that gentleman ; I 'know he will end by cleaning me out ; but the rogue... | |
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