 ... with two left legs, two right legs, two wooden legs, two wire legs, two spring legs - all sorts of legs and no legs - what is this to him? And in what walk of life, or dance of life, does man ever get such stimulating applause as thunders about him,...  The St. Petersburg English Review, of Literature, the Arts, and Sciences - Seite 3001842Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Hagelstein - 2005 - 168 Seiten
...get such stimulating applause as thunders about him, when, having danced his partner off her feet, and himself too, he finishes by leaping gloriously...of counterfeit Jim Crows, in one inimitable sound! The air, even in these distempered parts, is fresh after the stifling atmosphere of the houses; and... | |
 | Mindy Aloff - 2006 - 286 Seiten
...get such stimulating applause as thunders about him, when, having danced his partner off her feet, and himself too, he finishes by leaping gloriously...the chuckle of a million of counterfeit Jim Crows [ie, white minstrels in blackface], in one inimitable sound! — Dickens, American, pp. 101-102 A Secret... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1893 - 560 Seiten
...get such stimulating applause as thunders about him, when, having danced his partner off her feet, and himself too, he finishes by leaping gloriously...of counterfeit Jim Crows, in one inimitable sound ! The air, even in these distempered parts, is fresh after the stifling atmosphere of the houses ;... | |
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