 The other is a little, old, gray muzzled curmudgeon, with an unhappy eye, that kindles like a coal if you only look at him ; his nose turns up ; his mouth is drawn into wrinkles, so as to show his teeth ; in short, he has altogether the look of a dog...  Bracebridge Hall; Or, The Humorists. A Medley - Page 53by Washington Irving - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 476 pages
...like a coal, if yon only look at him ; his nose turns up ; his mouth is drawn into wrinkles, so as to show his teeth ; in short, he has altogether the...sick of the world. When he walks, he has his tail screwed up so tight, that it seems to lift his feet from the ground ; and he seldom makes use of more... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1825 - 582 pages
...drawn into wrinkles, so as to show his teeth ; in short, be has altogether the look of a dog far gorie in misanthropy, and totally sick of the world. When...three legs at a time, keeping the other drawn up as a reserve. This last wretch is called Beauty.' — vol. ip 7*. • ' The The same good taste and minute... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Conduct of life - 1827 - 404 pages
...kindles like a coal if you only look at him ; his nose turns up ; his mouth is drawn into wrinkles, so as to show his teeth ; in short, he has altogether the...curled up so tight that it seems to lift his feet off the ground ; and he seldom makes use of more than three legs at a time, keeping the other drawn... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 410 pages
...kindles like a coal if you only look at him ; his nose turns up ; his mouth is drawn into wrinkles, so as to show his teeth ; in short, he has altogether the...curled up so tight that it seems to lift his feet off the ground ; and he seldom makes use of more than three legs at a time, keeping the other drawn... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 404 pages
...kindles like a coal if you only look at him; his nose turns up; his mouth is drawn into wrinkles, so as to show his teeth; in short, he has altogether the...curled up so tight that it seems to lift his feet off the ground ; and he seldom makes use of more than three legs at a time, keeping the other drawn... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1835 - 276 pages
...kindles like a coal if you only look at him ; his nose turns up; his mouth is drawn into wrinkles, so as to show his teeth; in short, he has altogether the...three legs at a time, keeping the other drawn up as a reserve. This last wretch is called Beauty.'.'. These dogs are full of elegant ailments, unknown... | |
 | 1825 - 560 pages
...kindles like a coal if you only look at him: his nose turns up : his mouth is drawn into wrinkles, so as to show his teeth ; in short, he has altogether the...and totally sick of the world. When he walks, he has Ms tail curled up so tight that it seems to lift his feet from the ground ; and he seldom makes use... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 622 pages
...kindles like a coal if you only look at him ; his nose turns up ; his mouth is drawn into wrinkles, so as to show his teeth ; in short, he has altogether the...tail curled up so tight that it seems to lift his hind feet from the ground ; and he seldom makes use of more than three legs at a time, keeping the... | |
 | Washington Irving - American fiction - 1845 - 412 pages
...kindles like a coal if you only look at him ; his nose turns up ; his mouth is drawn into wrinkles, so as to show his teeth ; in. short, he has altogether the...three legs at a time, keeping the other drawn up as a reserve. This last wretchis called Beauty. These dogs are full of elegant ailments unknown to vulgar... | |
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