КНИГИ НА АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКЕ, ИМЕЮЩЕЕ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К СЛОВУ «COBBLER'S WAX»
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They met Cobbler's Wax at the corner of Mott. That which followed cannot be told
in honest American newspaper language or in the trained phraseology of
American magazines. A dramatic thing, to be sure ; but, paradoxically, the
Chinaman is ...
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The Light Princess and Other Fairy Tales
“By the cobbler's awl and the cobbler's wax,” insisted Colin. “I swear by the
cobbler's awl and the cobbler's wax,” returned the queen. “In the name of your
people?” “In the name of my people,” said the queen, “that none of us here
present will ...
George MacDonald, Greville MacDonald, 2013
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The Light Princess and Other Stories
... she answered. "Swear by the cobbler's awl and the cobbler's wax," said Colin. "
I swear," said the queen. "By the cobbler's awl and the cobbler's wax," insisted
Colin. "I swear by the cobbler's awl and the cobbler's wax," 125 THE CARASOYN
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The Complete Fairy Tales
"Swear by the cobbler's awl and the cobbler's wax," said Colin. "I swear," said the
queen. "By the cobbler's awl and the cobbler's wax," insisted Colin. "I swear by
the cobbler's awl and the cobbler's wax," returned the queen. "In the name of your
...
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Postal Pleasures: Sex, Scandal, and Victorian Letters
Banality, Anality, and Cobbler's Wax I was once told that the surest aid to the
writing of a book was a piece of cobbler's wax on my chair. I certainly believe in
the cobbler's wax much more than the inspiration. (Trollope,Autobiography 1: ...
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Mornings at Bow street. A selection of the most humourous ...
Why, Sir," continued the gentleman, " it was cobbler's wax !" " Cobbler's wax ! "
echoed his worship. "Cobbler's wax, Sir!" re-echoed the gentleman. — " The
rascally boot-maker, in pure revenge for the scolding I gave him — had, with
malice ...
John Wight (reporter.), 1838
Dost thou indeed ? and who told thee to ask me for cobbler's wax ? " " Please,
Thomas Jackson." " Then tell Thomas Jackson that we don't keep cobbler's wax,
but if he wants some shoemaker's wax I will try to find some for him ; and tell him
...
Ackworth Old Scholars' Association, 1891
Quoth Mr S. "do ye ken how to mak cobbler's wax?" No Sir, says the man I
generally buys it. " What! you a shoemaker and dinna ken hoo to mak cobler's
wax! Open the door. Open the door." But, Mr Stephenson said I we have no time
to spare ...
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The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London
That rocks can be bent, that they become, to a small amount, extensible under
very great pressures, is certain; but the fact that even then rupture is frequent, as
thrust-faults bear witness, shows that between a viscous fluid, like cobbler's wax,
...
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The Honourable Gentleman and Others
Came secondly a ruffianly Finnish skipper, wanted for murder in Riga and for
arson in Palermo, who took Cobbler's Wax and associates to Vladivostok and
into the tranquil presence of a Nanking compradore with gold-incased finger-
nails and ...
