 | Horace Walpole - 1833 - 484 pagina’s
...Freychappel, fought, and was killed. I am glad he never heard what poor Gibberne was intended for. They have put in the papers a good story made on White's...were going to bleed him, the wagerers for his death interposed, and said it would affect the fairness of the bet. Mr. Whithed has been so unlucky to have... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 522 pagina’s
...Freychappel, fought, and was killed. I am glad he never heard what poor Gibberne was intended for. They have put in the papers a good story made on White's...were going to bleed him, the wagerers for his death interposed, and said it would affect the fairness of the bet Mr. Wbithed has been so unlucky as to... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 618 pagina’s
...Freychappel, fought, and was killed. I am glad he never heard what poor Gibberne was intended for. They have put in the papers a good story made on White's...were going to bleed him, the wagerers for his death interposed, and said it would affect the fairness of the bet Mr. Whithed has been so unlucky as to... | |
 | Kazlitt Arvine - 1848 - 908 pagina’s
...time dropped down dead at the door of White's club house, into which he was carried ; the members of the club immediately made bets whether he was dead or not ; and upon its being proposed to bleed him, the wagerers for his death interposed, alleging that it would... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1850 - 608 pagina’s
...&c., less piquant : ' White's ' is particularly full. We select a few characteristic anecdotes : — ' They have put in the papers a good story made on White's....were going to bleed him, the wagerers for his death interposed, and said it would affect the fairness of the bet.' — Walpole. ' Very often the taste... | |
 | 1850 - 608 pagina’s
...&c., less piquant : ' White's ' is particularly full. We select a few characteristic anecdotes : — 'They have put in the papers a good story made on...when they were going to bleed him, the wagerers for iiis death interposed, and said it would affect the fairness of the bet.' — Walpole. ' Very often... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1850 - 612 pagina’s
...&c., less piquant : ' White's ' is particularly full. We select a few characteristic anecdotes : — ' They have put in the papers a good story made on White's....carried in ; the club immediately made bets whether h« was dead or not ; and when they were going to bleed him, the wagerers for his death interposed,... | |
 | 1911 - 588 pagina’s
...Walpole's 'Letters' (Toynbee), iii. 14 :— " They have put in the papers a good story made on White s : a man dropped down dead at the door, was carried in ; the club immediately made beta whether ho wa» dead or not, and when they were going to bleed him, the wagercrs for his death... | |
 | Kazlitt Arvine - 1850 - 882 pagina’s
...time dropped down dead at the door of White's club house, into which he was carried ; the members of the club immediately made bets whether he was dead or not ; and upon its being proposed to bleed him, the wagerers for his death interposed, alleging that it would... | |
 | William Gaspey - 1851 - 496 pagina’s
...characteristic story appeared in the papers of 1750. "A man who dropped down dead at the door of White's was carried in; the club immediately made bets whether...were going to bleed him, the wagerers for his death interposed, and said it would affect the fairness of the bet." Pall-mall, however, is the western region... | |
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They have put in the papers a good story made on White's : a man dropped down dead at the door, was carried in ; the club immediately made bets whether he was dead or not, and when they were going to bleed him, the wagerers for his death interposed, and... 
