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  • Shooting boxes, oppra boxes, money boxes always full; hunters at

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

  • He was usefle in a thousand different ways, gitting oppra-boxes, and invitations to French swarries, bying gloves, and O de Colong, writing French noats, and such like.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

  • One night, after conducting the two ladies to the oppra, after suppink of white soop, sammy-deperdrow, and shampang glassy (which means eyced), at their house in the Plas Vandom, me and master droav hoam in the cab, as happy as possbill.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

  • Up we marched to our apartmince, me carrying the light and the cloax, master hummink a hair out of the oppra, as merry as a lark.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

  • A strange company of people there was, too, in that wehicle, -- 3 sailors; an Italyin with his music-box and munky; a missionary, going to convert the heathens in France; 2 oppra girls (they call 'em figure-aunts), and the figure-aunts 'mothers inside; 4 Frenchmin, with gingybred caps and mustashes, singing, chattering, and jesticklating in the most vonderful vay.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • He was usefle in a thousand different ways, gitting oppra-boxes, and invitations to French swarries, bying gloves, and O de

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • One night, after conducting the two ladies to the oppra, after suppink of white soop, sammy-deperdrow, and shampang glassy (which means eyced), at their house in the Plas Vandom, me and master droav hoam in the cab, as happy as possbill.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Up we marched to our apartmince, me carrying the light and the cloax, master hummink a hair out of the oppra, as merry as a lark.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Shooting boxes, oppra boxes, money boxes always full; hunters at Melton; a seat in the house of Commins: heaven knows what! and not a poar footman, who only describes what he's seen, and can't, in cors, pennytrate into the idears and the busms of men.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • My lady looked at the pair for a moment with her teeth grinding, her i's glaring, her busm throbbing, and her face chock white; for all the world like Madam Pasty, in the oppra of "Mydear" (when she's goin to mudder her childring, you recklect); and out she flounced from the room, without a word, knocking down poar me, who happened to be very near the dor, and leaving my master along with his crook-back mistress.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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