I DO not think that we ever knew his real name. Our ignorance of it certainly never gave us any social inconvenience, for at Sandy Bar in 1854 most men were christened anew. Sometimes these appellatives were derived from some distinctiveness of dress,... Americanisms: The English of the New World - Страница 74написао/ла Maximilian Schele de Vere - 1872 - 687 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
| Bret Harte - 1871 - 282 страница
...certainly never gave us any social inconvenience, for at Sandy Bar in 1854 most men were christened anew. Sometimes these appellatives were derived from some...distinctiveness of dress, as in the case of " Dungaree Jack " ; or from some peculiarity of habit, as shown in " Saleratus Bill," so called from an undue proportion... | |
| Bret Harte - 1871 - 288 страница
...social inconvenience, for at Sandy Bar in JjJEji-most men were christened anew. Some"-fctrnes"These appellatives were derived from some distinctiveness of dress, as in the case of " Dungaree Jack " ; or from some peculiarity of habit, as shown in " Saleratus Bill," so called from an undue proportion... | |
| Maximilian Schele de Vere - 1872 - 706 страница
...numerous resident American firms, has brought the name of the disreputable suburb of Bombay, Dungaree, into common use in the United States. It was probably...coast, who long ago learned to laugh at the clumsy Dungaree Forts and Quaker Guns of their Celestial enemies," both of these inventions being largely... | |
| Maximilian Schele de Vere - 1872 - 702 страница
...numerous resident American firms, has brought the name of the disreputable suburb of Bombay, Dungaree, into common use in the United States. It was probably...coast, who long ago learned to laugh at the clumsy Dungaree Forts and Quaker Guns of their Celestial enemies," both of these inventions being largely... | |
| Maximilian Schele de Vere - 1872 - 1030 страница
...American firms, has brought the name of the disreputable suburb of Bombay, Dungaree, into common nse in the United States. It was probably first the coarse...coast, who long ago learned to laugh at the clumsy Dungartt Forts and Quaker Guns of their Celestial enemies," both of these inventions being largely... | |
| Maximilian Schele de Vere - 1872 - 714 страница
...named after the place, which made the name familiar to American ears, so that FB Harte could say xif the motley crowd at the mines, which he so graphically...coast, who long ago learned to laugh at the clumsy Dungaree Forts and Quaker Guns of their Celestial enemies," both of these inventions being largely... | |
| Maximilian Schele de Vere - 1872 - 708 страница
...American firms, has brought the name of the disreputable suburb of Bombay, Dungaree, into common nse in the United States. It was probably first the coarse...of Dungaree Jack." (Luck of Roaring Camp, p. 56.) Thep. the Anglo-Chinese war, in which American sailors took part, brought another term home to their... | |
| Francis Bret Harte - 1872 - 442 страница
...certainly never gave us any social inconvenience, for at Sandy Bar in 1854 most men were christened anew. Sometimes these appellatives were derived from some...distinctiveness of dress, as in the case of " Dungaree Jack" ; or from some peculiarity of habit, as shown in " Saleratus Bill," so called from an undue proportion... | |
| Bret Harte - 1882 - 434 страница
...gave us any social inconvenience, for at Sandy Bar in 1854 most men were christened anew. Somctimes these appellatives were derived from some distinctiveness of dress, as in the case of " Dungaree Jack;" or from some peculiarity of habit, as shown in "Saleratus Bill," so called from an undue proportion... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 700 страница
...certainly never gave us any social inconvenience, for at Sandy Bar in 1854 most men were christened anew. Sometimes these appellatives were derived from some...distinctiveness of dress, as in the case of " Dungaree Jack" ; or from some peculiarity of habit, as shown in " Saleratus Bill," so called from an undue proportion... | |
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