 I have also the fame of being the first who ever passed the Straits with two canes, a morning and an evening cane. I change my cane as the gun fires, and hope to carry them both on to Cairo. It is wonderful the effect these magical wands produce. I owe...  Political Portraits - Halaman 117oleh Charles Whibley - 1923 - 293 halamanTampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | 1889 - 864 halaman
...visitor from London, is an adept in the nice conduct of the clouded cane. I have [he tells his father] the fame of being the first who ever passed the straits...wonderful the effect these magical wands produce. Arrived at Malta, his mother's studs have lost their pristine charm, and the evening and the morning... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1885 - 160 halaman
...reputation of being a great judge of costume, to the admiration and envy of many subalterns. I have also the fame of being the first who ever passed the Straits...the supposed author of — what is it — I forget ! These Straits, by the bye — that is, the passage for the last ten miles or so to Gib, hbetween... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1885 - 176 halaman
...reputation of being a great judge of costume, to the admiration and envy of many subalterns. I have also the fame of being the first who ever passed the Straits...even more attention than to being the supposed author of—what is it—I forget! These Straits, by the bye—that is, the passage for the last ten miles... | |
 | 1885 - 528 halaman
...circle. From Gibraltar he writes : I have also the fame of being the first who ever passed the Strait with two canes — a morning and an evening cane....wonderful the effect these magical wands produce. And from Malta : Affectation tells here even better than wit. Yesterday at the racket court, sitting... | |
 | 1885 - 850 halaman
...being a great judge of costume, to the admiration and envy of many subalterns. 1 have also the tame of being the first who ever passed the Straits with two canes, a morning and an evening cane. 1 change my cane as the gun fires, and hope to carry them both on to Cairo. It is wonderful the effect... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1887 - 272 halaman
...reputation of being a great judge of costume, to the admiration and envy of many subalterns. I have also the fame of being the first who ever passed the Straits...the supposed author of — what is it ? — I forget ! These Straits, by-the-bye — that is, the passage for the last ten miles or so to Gib, between the... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1890 - 290 halaman
...reputation for being a great judge of costume, to the admiration and envy of many subalterns. I have also the fame of being the first who ever passed the Straits...canes, a morning and an evening cane. I change my cane on the gun-fire and hope to carry them both on to Cairo. It is wonderful the effect those magical wands... | |
 | 1911 - 400 halaman
...achieved a triumph among the officers by a precision of dandyism never before attained. " I have also the fame of being the first who ever " passed the...fires, and hope to carry them both on " to Cairo." As he approached the East he became more Eastern. In Malta he took to smoking a Turkish pipe six feet... | |
 | 1908 - 324 halaman
...reputation of being a great judge of costume, to the envy and admiration of many subalterns. I have also the fame of being the first who ever passed the Straits...change my cane as the gun fires, and hope to carry both on to Cairo. It is wonderful the effect these magical wands produce. I owe to them even more than... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1896 - 248 halaman
...ever passed the Straits with two canes, a morning and an evening one. I change my cane on the gunfire, and hope to carry them both on to Cairo. It is wonderful the effect those magical wands produce. I owe to them even more attention than to being the supposed author of... | |
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