 | David Dixon Porter - 1885 - 374 pagina’s
...Colonel Bailey could do it, and that I had been expecting just such a man to turn up. '•' There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft to keep watch for the life of poor Jack."—"Bring your lumberman here, General," I said; " no doubt he has more plain practical ideas... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - 1885 - 352 pagina’s
...goings-on in the same light ; and I suppose she has a firm belief that there's a sweet little cherub who sits up aloft, to keep watch for the life of poor Jack." " It all seems so strange," Lady Letitia said. " We were schoolgirls the other day, and now here am... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1888 - 712 pagina’s
..."For," says he, do you mind me, "let storms e'er so oft Take the topsails of sailors aback, There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack ! " 1 said to our Poll — for, d'ye see, she would cry — When last we weighed anchor for sea, "What... | |
 | Sir Richard Collinson - 1889 - 584 pagina’s
...escapes recorded, that we cannot wonder Arctic voyagers feel more than other sailors the tru.st in the " sweet little cherub that sits up aloft to keep watch for the life of poor Jack." One of the most imminent of those narrated happened to the Investigator in September, 1851, while working... | |
 | 1889 - 934 pagina’s
...for love and u little for the bottle. n. Captain Wattle and Miss RoL There's a sweet little ohernb that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. o. Poor Jack. DioNYsrcs. Better late than never. p. Jlaliuariiamnu. IX. 9. DRUJtMOND. My life lies... | |
 | 1889 - 708 pagina’s
...inscription, for the grammar of which Dibdin was scarcely responsible : These are sweet little cherubs what sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. But in 1823 I was sent off to more serious schooling at Blandford, and both Sells and Hosier passed... | |
 | Mrs. Grace Townsend - 1890 - 640 pagina’s
..."For," says he, "do you mind me, let storms e'er so oft Take the topsails of sailors aback, There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack!" I said to our Poll — for, d'ye see, she would cry — When last we weighed anchor for sea. "What... | |
 | Grace Townsend - 1891 - 570 pagina’s
..."For," says he, "do you mind me, let storms e'er so oft Take the topsails of sailors aback, There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack!" 314 THE SEA. I said to our Poll — for, d'ye see, she would cry — When last we weighed anchor for... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 pagina’s
...tow: For, says he, do you mind me, let storms e'er so oft Take the topsails of sailors aback, There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. I said to our Poll, for, d'ye see, she would cry, When last we weigh'd anchor for sea, What argufies... | |
 | Yale University. Sheffield Scientific School. Class of 1891 - 1891 - 180 pagina’s
...dynamic. WARREN BYNNER NASH. " His noble hand did win what he did spend." JOHN COLWELL NEALE. " There's a sweet little cherub, that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack." Born and lives in Kittanning, Penn.; will be an engineer ; father is in the iron business ; had a cousin... | |
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There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack! 
