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THE CHARTER

... argument' he is a devil at assertion. He has no doubts-not he; he believes that the moon is made of green cheese, and that Cheshire cats grin because they think so likewise. He had not theleast doubt that the great majority of the people would be very much ...

Published: Sunday 21 July 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2030 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... Cornwall, or cricket in Keiet; in fact, it wvas almost the common mode of salutation, since the Pershore people, like Cheshire cats, never met hut they spat at each otlier. (Renewed laughter.) So common was it, that Mr. Woodward him- self, though an attorney ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1843
Newspaper: Ipswich Journal
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 9954 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

FERHAND'S FALSE POSITION

... exhibitors. Thc singing niouse is silent; wvlhether feeding this instant upon Cheshire helese, or the food, a month sinec, of a Cheshire cat, nobody cares. The Ojibewa Indians, havina shown all of us, at a shilling a-head, wlhat fine disinterested fellows North ...

Published: Sunday 28 April 1844
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2133 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

PROVINCIAL

... a general meeting. of delegates was held at Bolton, of. the t e 2. operative cotton spinners of Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire cat r and Derbyshire. The business of the meeting was of a l r wagewbat novel csaracter. Intead of discussing the rate of be ...

Published: Monday 21 February 1848
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6949 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

INCORPORATION OF BLACKBURN

... agent specially appointed for Preston. CusEsilEa CAT.-A correspondent asks the explanation of the phrase, grinning like a Cheshire cat. Some years since, Cheshire cheeses were sold in this town (Bath) moulded into the shape of a cat, bristles being in- ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1316 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

MULTUM IN PARVO

... Association this during the last two years. cur, A correspondent asks the explanation of the phrase Iblic grinning like a Cheshire cat. Some years since, Chc- ame shire cheeses were sold in this town (Bath), moulded into we the shape of a cat, bristles ...

Published: Tuesday 03 December 1850
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2296 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

VARIETIES

... Natiopal Gallery could manage to cut out the old asuters instead of sorsoiog them out-it would be a fine thing. A GRmN POB CHESHIRE CATs.-Alluding to Cheshire, in reference to the Militia, the Liverpool Mercury says:- There is little doubt now that recourse ...

Published: Thursday 23 December 1852
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 713 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

... deposit then chosen for cats being Chester. It turned out to be a hoax-but to this day, there is a proverb Grinning like a Cheshire cat-by which the sorrows and starvation of the over population of the feline race is recorded.] GHR-MAN HoSPITAL.-On Wednesday ...

Published: Saturday 14 March 1857
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1203 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

INVESTIGATION AT THE NORTH UNION

... Allen called us ' fiends and 1 baboons;, els0 saidl tlio chemisese on our backs were not our own, tisat we wore 1like Cheshire cats grininsesg for cheekse lsoe said ohe Would cat the devil cutof omeof s ; tht-the devil was in ns ; I never heard her ...

Published: Wednesday 14 January 1863
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 4209 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEA

... unless it possessed a cat. We confess ourselves puzzled as to the explanation of the Scotch proverb,' Grinning- like a Cheshire cat, uinless it alludes to their uuifsrmn cheerfulness in that county ; but as, All vats arc black in lthe dark, wye paso ...

Published: Wednesday 06 January 1864
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 6077 | Page: 6 | Tags: News