 | 1876 - 734 strani
...a smile that was child-like and bland. Yet the cards they were stocked In a way that I grieve, And my feelings were shocked At the state of Nye's sleeve, Which was stutted full of aces and bowers^ And the same with intent to deceive. But the. hands that were played... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 strani
...the smile that was childlike and bland. Yet the cards they were stocked In a way that I grieve, And my feelings were shocked At the state of Nye's sleeve,...played By that heathen Chinee, And the points that ho made, Were quite frightful to see, — Till at last he put down a right bower, Which the same Nye... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1877 - 886 strani
...the German packs of cards, in which the card corresponding to our knave is a peasant, called bauer. But the hands that were played By that heathen Chinee,...frightful to see,— Till at last he put down a right boicer, Which the same Nyc had dealt unto me. Bnt liarte, The Heathen Chinee. Bowie. A bowie-knife.... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1877 - 894 strani
...the German packs of cards, in which the card corresponding to our knave is a peasaut, called baiter. But the hands that were played By that heathen Chinee,...And the points that he made Were quite frightful to nee, — Till at last he put down a right bower, Which the same Nye had dealt unto me. Bret ffarte,... | |
 | William James Linton - 1878 - 470 strani
...way that I grieve ; And my feelings were shock'd At the state of Nye's sleeve, — Which was stuff" d full of aces and bowers, And the same with intent to deceive. But the hands that were play'd By that Heathen Chinee, And the points that he made, Were quite frightful to see, — Till at... | |
 | 1879 - 322 strani
...cards they were stocked In a way that I grieve, And my feelings were shocked At the state of Nyc's sleeve : Which was stuffed full of aces and bowers,...And the points that he made, Were quite frightful to sec, — Till at last he put down a right bower, Which the same Nye had dealt unto me. Then I looked... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 276 strani
...a smile that was childlike arid bland. Yet the cards they were stocked In a way that I grieve, And my feelings were shocked At the state of Nye's sleeve...bowers, And the same with intent to deceive. But the hauds that were played By that heathen Chinee, And the points that he made, Were quite frightful to... | |
 | Ferguson - 1881 - 386 strani
...a smile that was child-like and bland. Yet the cards they were stocked In a way that I grieve, And my feelings were shocked ' At the state of Nye's sleeve,...aces and bowers, And the same with intent to deceive. THE BUM MANIAC. 105 But the hands that were played By that heathen Chinee, And the points that he made... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1882 - 370 strani
...the smile that was childlike and bland Yet the cards they were stocked In a way that I grieve, And my feelings were shocked At the state of Nye's sleeve,...the hands that were played By that heathen Chinee, s And the points that he made, > Were quite frightful to see, — Till at last he put down a right... | |
 | 1882 - 354 strani
...PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES. 227 Yet the cards they were stocked In a way that I grieve, And my feelings were shocked At the state of Nye's sleeve, Which was stuffed fuH of aces and bowers, And the same with intent to deceive. But the hands that were played By that... | |
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Till at last he put down a right bower, Which the same Nye had dealt unto me. Then I looked up at Nye, And he gazed upon me; And he rose with a sigh, And said, "Can this be? We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor," — And he went for that heathen Chinee. 
