 We set up a shout that you might have heard to Charing Cross, waving our hats, stamping against the floor, and clapping our hands. The tellers scarcely got through the crowd; for the House was thronged up to the table, and all the floor was fluctuating...  The Passing of the Great Reform Bill - Pàgina 205per James Ramsay Montagu Butler - 1914 - 454 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1876 - 1204 pàgines
...might have heard to Charing Cross, waving our hats, stamping against the lloor, and clapping our hands. The tellers scarcely got through the crowd : for the...of a theatre. But you might have heard a pin drop u Duncannon read the numbers. Then again the sbonts broke out, and many of us shed tears. I could scarcely... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pàgines
...to Charing Cross, waving our hats, stamping against the floor, and clapping onr hands. The teilers scarcely got through the crowd ; for the House was...fluctuating with heads like the pit of a theatre. But yon might have heard a pin drop as Dnncannon read the numbers. Then iLKuin the shouts broke out, and... | |
 | James Taylor - 1882 - 280 pàgines
...might have heard to Charing Cross, waving our hats, stamping against the floor, and clapping our hands. The tellers scarcely got through the crowd, for the...a theatre. But you might have heard a pin drop as Duncannou read the numbers. Then again the shouts broke out, and many of us shed tears.' This division,... | |
 | Sir Wilfrid Laurier - 1890 - 688 pàgines
...might have heard to Charing Cross, waving our hats, stumping against the floor, and clapping our hands. The tellers scarcely got through the crowd : for the...again the shouts broke out, and many of us shed tears. [ could scarcely refrain. And the jaw of Peel fell; and the luce of Twiss was as the face of a damned... | |
 | Hugh Walker - 1897 - 358 pàgines
...division in the House of Commons in 1831, when the Eeform Bill was carried by a majority of one : ' You might have heard a pin drop as Duncannon read...again, the shouts broke out, and many of us shed tears. And the jaw of Peel fell; and the face of Twiss was as the face of a damned soul; and Herries looked... | |
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - 1898 - 614 pàgines
...might have heard to Charing Cross, waving our hats, stamping against the floor, and clapping our hands. The tellers scarcely got through the crowd; for the...floor was fluctuating with heads like the pit of a theater. But you might have heard a pin drop as Duncannon read the numbers. Then again the shouts broke... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1900 - 642 pàgines
...might have heard to Charing Cross, waving our hats, stamping against the floor, and clapping our hands. The tellers scarcely got through the crowd; for the...might have heard a pin drop as Duncannon read the members. Then again the shouts broke out, and many of us shed tears. I could scarcely refrain. And... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1900 - 650 pàgines
...might have heard to Charing Cross, waving our hats, stamping against the floor, and clapping our hands. The tellers scarcely got through the crowd ; for the...might have heard a pin drop as Duncannon read the members. Then again the shouts broke out, and many of us shed tears. I could scarcely refrain. And... | |
 | James Beresford Atlay - 1906 - 534 pàgines
...reading by 302 votes to 301 .3 The tellers scarcely got through the crowd, wrote Macaulay to Ellis, for the House was thronged up to the table, and all...have heard a pin drop as Duncannon read the numbers. And the jaw of Peel fell, and the face of Twiss was as the face of a damned soul, and Herries looked... | |
 | Stuart Johnson Reid - 1906 - 480 pàgines
...of a field of battle. After the division, the tellers could scarcely fight their way to the table. ' You might have heard a pin drop as Duncannon read...again the shouts broke out and many of us shed tears.' It was a narrow shave, but it spelt victory all the same. ' It is better to capitulate than to be taken... | |
| |
