 Lord have mercy upon us!" writ there: which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco to smell to and...  The Quarterly Review - Page 142edited by - 1913Full view - About this book
 | Daniel Defoe - 1998 - 340 pages
...first sight of an infected house, in Drury Lane: 'It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco to smell and to chaw, which took away my apprehension.' (5) Plague . . . ckiefly among the Poor: '. . . it is... | |
 | Richard Gordon - 2002 - 448 pages
...of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco to smell and to chew, which took away the apprehension. 17 June To the office late, and then home to bed. It... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 2000 - 386 pages
...remembrance I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced 6 to buy some roll=tobacco to smell to and chaw - which took away the apprehension. 2 8. About 5 a-clock my wife came home, it having lightened all night hard, and one great shower of... | |
 | Christian Libery Press, Garry J. Moes - 1999 - 452 pages
...sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that... I ever saw. I began to worry about myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco to smell and chew, which took away the apprehension. Adapted from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Henry B. Wheatley,... | |
 | Wendy Orent - 2004 - 300 pages
...of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco to smell to and chaw, which took away the apprehension.32 Tobacco was thought to possess protective powers against the plague; schoolboys at... | |
 | A. Lloyd Moote, Dorothy C. Moote - 2004 - 408 pages
...scurrying for another kind of prophylactic: "It put me into an evil conception of myself and my [foul] smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco to smell and chaw — which take away the apprehension." He had no doubt heard the legend that tobacconists... | |
 | Hans Zinsser - 2011 - 332 pages
...of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some rolltobacco to smell and to chaw, which took away my apprehension. King Charles, rejoicing in the victory over the Dutch... | |
 | 200 pages
...of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco to smell and to chaw, which took away the apprehension. June 10. — In the evening home to supper ; and there,... | |
 | 140 pages
...of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco to smell and to chaw, which took away the apprehension. June 10. — In the evening home to supper ; and there,... | |
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