| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...and told me. As he did that with so much good-nature, I begged of him to shew me the inside of his watch ; and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring-box with part of the chain round it, and asked him what it was that made the box turn... | |
| William Meynell Whittemore - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 590
...him. " As he did that with so much good nature," says he, " I begged him to show me the inside of his watch, and, though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch and pat it into my hands." Having examined it for a short time, young Ferguson said that he did not thoroughly... | |
| James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 550
...and told me.31 As he did that with so much good nature, I begged of him to show me the inside of his watch ; and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch and put it into my hands. I saw the spring-box with part of the chain round it, and asked him what it was that made the box turn... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 276
...and told me. As he did that with so much good-nature, I begged of him to shew me the inside of his watch ; and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring-box with part of the chain round it, and asked him what it was that made the box turn... | |
| William Chambers - 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 326
...and told me. As he did that with so much good-nature, I begged of him to shew me the inside of his watch ; and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring-box with part of the chain round it, and asked him what it was that made the box turn... | |
| James Frederick Skinner Gordon - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...and told me. As he did that with so much good-nature, I begged of him to shew me the inside of his Watch : and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the Watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the Spring-box with part of the Chain round it, and asked him what it was that made the Box turn... | |
| Osgood Eaton Fuller - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 658
...watch and told me. As he did that with so much good-nature, I begged him to show me the inside of his watch ; and, though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and put it in my hands. I saw the springbox, with part of the chain round it; and asked him what it was that made... | |
| 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 830
...But this proved a great failure, which perhaps was as well for the constitutions of the Banffshire peasantry. These misfortunes, with an illness incurred...that turnip-case of wonders. A steel spring was it? but James had never seen a spring but that of the lock of his father's gun. How could a spring turn... | |
| Orison Swett Marden - 1897 - عدد الصفحات: 392
...told me with so much good nature that I begged him to show me the inside of it. Although a perfect stranger, he immediately opened the watch and put...hands." Imagine the excitement, the eagerness, the awe, as he peeped into that turnip-case of wonders. A steel spring, was it? but James had never seen... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...and told me. As he did that with so much good-nature, I begged of him to show me the inside of his watch ; and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring-box with part of the chain round it, and asked him what it was that made the box turn... | |
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