 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck, Lura E. Runkel - English language - 1920 - 456 pages
...enormous sum of three-and-twenty shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make but • that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbors. NOTES AND QUESTIONS For Biography see page 325. Discussion. 1. How did Franklin's wife help him to... | |
 | Eleanore Hubbard - Children's plays - 1922 - 360 pages
...her head). "For which I have no other excuse or apology to make but that I think my husband deserves a silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbors." (All laugh.) FRANK, (patting her arm). Oh, Deborah, Deborah, " Silks and satins, scarlet and velvet... | |
 | Carl Holliday - United States - 1922 - 350 pages
...They had been bought for me without my knowledge by my wife. . . . She thought her husband deserv'da silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbors. This was the first appearance of plate and China in our house, which afterwards in a course of years,... | |
 | Emma Lilian Dana - 1923 - 232 pages
...bought for me without my knowledge by my wife, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon...and china bowl, as well as any of his neighbors." It was not long before Franklin enlarged his business and opened a shop near the market place. He sold... | |
 | Edward Howard Griggs - Biography & Autobiography - 1927 - 392 pages
...enormous sum of three-and-twentyshillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon...and China bowl as well as any of his neighbors."* Mrs. Franklin was an excellent mother to her two children. The promising boy died in childhood, of... | |
 | Sydney George Fisher - 1926 - 446 pages
...enormous sum of three and twenty shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbors." A story is told on the Eastern Shore of Maryland of a young man who called one evening on an old farmer... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - Literary Criticism - 1898 - 684 pages
...shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought her husband deserv'da silver spoon and China bowl as well as any of his neighbors. This was the first appearance of plate and China in our house, which afterward, in a course of years,... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1901 - 692 pages
...shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought her husband deserv'da silver spoon and China bowl as well as any of his neighbors. This was the first appearance of plate and China in our house, which afterward, in a course of years,... | |
 | Christopher J. Murrey - Inventors - 2002 - 254 pages
...enormous sum of three and twenty shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbors." A story is told on the Eastern Shore of Maryland of a young man who called one evening on an old farmer... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 680 pages
...shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought her husband deserv'da silver spoon and China bowl as well as any of his neighbors. This was the first appearance of plate and China in our house, which afterward, in a course of years,... | |
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... one morning to breakfast, I found it in a China bowl, with a spoon of silver! They had been bought for me without my knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of... 
