 ... fifteen-minute nag, but that was only in fun, you know, because, of course, she was faster than that — and he used to win money on that horse, for all she was so slow and always had the asthma, or the distemper, or the consumption, or something...  Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old: Now First Published in Complete Form - עמוד 16מאת Mark Twain - 1893 - 320 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Thomas Hood - 1869 - 260 דפים
...distemper, or the consumption, or something of that kind. They used to give her two or three hundred yards' start, and then pass her under way ; but always...raising more racket with her coughing and sneezing and blowing her nose — and always fetch up at the stand just about a neck ahead, as near as you could... | |
 | Edmund Routledge - 1871 - 194 דפים
...distemper, or the consumption, or something of that kind. They used to give her two or three hundred yards start, and then pass her under way ; but always...raising more racket with her coughing and sneezing and blowing her nose — and always fetch up at the stand just about a neck ahead, as near as you could... | |
 | Samuel Langhorne Clemens - 1872 - 412 דפים
...distemper, or the consumption, or something of that kind. They used to give her two or three hundred yards' start, and then pass her under way ; but always...raising more racket with her coughing and sneezing and blowing her nose — and always fetch up at the stand just about a neck ahead, as near as you could... | |
 | 1884 - 794 דפים
...give her two or three hundred yards start, and then pass her ander way ; but always at the fag end of the race she'd get excited and desperate-like,...out to one. side amongst the fences, and kicking up mcre dust, and raising more racket with her coughing and sneezing and blowing her nose, — and always... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 דפים
...distemper, or the consumption, or something of that kind. They used to give her two or three hundred yards' start, and then pass her under way ; but always...raising more racket with her coughing and sneezing and blowing her nose — and always fetch up at the stand just about a neck ahead, as near as you could... | |
 | Samuel Langhorne Clemens - 1875 - 332 דפים
...well yet ; and Smiley, before he thought says, " Well, I'll resk two-and-a-half sh« don't anyway." sometimes out to one side amongst the fences, and...raising more racket with her coughing and sneezing and blowing her nose — and always fetch up at the stand just about a neck ahead, as near as you could... | |
 | 1876 - 732 דפים
...to give her two or three hundred yards start, andThen pass her under way ; but always at the fag end of the race she'd get excited and desperate-like,...the fences, and kicking up more dust, and raising morc racket with her coughing and sneezing and blowing her nose,— and always fetch up at the stand... | |
 | 1876 - 732 דפים
...distemper, or the consumption, or something of that kind. They used to give her two or three hundred yards start, and then pass her under way ; but always at the fag end of the race she'd get excited and desperate-like, and como cavorting and straddling up, and... | |
 | John Hamer - 1883 - 338 דפים
...distemper, or the consumption, or something of that kind. They used to give her two or three hundred yards' start, and then pass her under way ; but always...raising more racket with her coughing and sneezing and blowing her nose — and always fetch up at the stand just about a neck ahead, as near as you could... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - 472 דפים
...of that kind. They used to give her two or three hundred yards start, and then pass her underway ; but always at the fag-end of the race she'd get excited and desperate-like, and come cavorting and rtraddling up, and scattering her legs around limber, sometimes in the air and sometimes out to one... | |
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