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An extraordinary and very extensive robbery was committed on Thursday evening sennight, at the residence of Sir ..

... said he, the longs, in the House ot Commons, because he all legs, thighs, and head, with a mouth from car to ear, like a Cheshire cat, (These elegant expressions elicited bursts of laughter from 'the enlightened' auditory He (Lord Stanley) will perhaps ...

Published: Saturday 14 May 1831
Newspaper: Staffordshire Advertiser
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 863 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A Bachelor editor, at the West, refuses to publish marriages, unless paid for as advertisements. He says, that ..

... —Net York Paper. Puns. made a pun tbe other day (says Charles Lamb), and palmed it upon Holcroft, who grinned like a Cheshire cat. Why do cats grin in Cheshire ? Because it was once a countypalatine, and cats cannot help laughing whenever they think ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1839
Newspaper: Staffordshire Advertiser
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 149 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GLOUCESTER ASSIZES

... in Cornwall, or cricket in Kent; in fact, it was almost the common mode of salutation, since the Pershore people, like Cheshire cats, never met but they spat at each other. (Renewed laughter.) So common was it, that Air. Woodward himself, though attorney ...

Published: Thursday 20 April 1843
Newspaper: Worcester Journal
County: Worcestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2891 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

assaulting the plaintiff beating him and spitting in bis face. Mr. Serjeant Talf’ourd conducted the plaintiff’s ..

... in Cornwall or cricket in Kent; in fact, it was almost the common mode of salutation, since the Pershore people, like Cheshire cats, never met but they spat at each other. (Renewed laughter.) So common was it, that Mr. Woodward himself, though an attorney ...

Published: Friday 21 April 1843
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1836 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

rHB WORCESTER HERALD, SATBBDAY, APRIL 22, K»

... or cricket ia Kent; since the Pershore peo ple, like mou mode of salutation, but they spat at each other. | had greath Cheshire cats, mever met that Mr. Wood- was found (Renewed laughter.) 50 common was it, did not seem t know | produced ward himself, ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1843
Newspaper: Worcester Herald
County: Worcestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3135 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... important fact, thet she saw Bothing at all; others said that the velligereut ladies put their noses close and grinning like Cheshire cats, Mrs Jones went * in Mre B.% tace, when the latter emptied ber aprun of some pork pies which she was carrying trom the ...

Published: Friday 12 May 1843
Newspaper: Shrewsbury Chronicle
County: Shropshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5132 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL SATURDAY MARCH 6 184? THE WKEK CORRES Legislation to Irish Iliness How Intends Himself 111! ..

... cat Tile animal jumped not into the of nett week it did on former occasion at the end this and there it is grinning like Cheshire cat” at this present moment to the exclusive of Mr Muntz and your correspondent nobody to anything about it “ For self and ...

Published: Saturday 06 March 1847
Newspaper: Birmingham Journal
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 10594 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1847

... of next week, as it did on a former occasion, at least to the end of this week; and there it is now, “ grinning like a Cheshire cat,” at this present moment, to the exclusive entertainment of Mr. Muntz and your correspondent, for no- body else seems to ...

Published: Saturday 06 March 1847
Newspaper: Birmingham Journal
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1711 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

jtliscelliuuons

... satisfactory references will be required as to his qualifications.—Application to be made the Stonetrough Colliery Company. Cheshire. cat ion. XNRENCH SCHOOL.—FRENCH TAUGHT r daily, as in France, Monsieur CLAUDIUS M. TOURTON, assisted by Mademoiselle Thierry ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1857
Newspaper: Staffordshire Advertiser
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 835 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ORIGINAL

... with what affection was viewed the one that possessed the highest degree Vm quality which is said to be so remarkable in a Cheshire cat; while away went Will and a few choice spirits in. pursuit, as gravely and silently if marching to the attack of some fortified ...

Published: Saturday 19 December 1857
Newspaper: Hereford Times
County: Herefordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2602 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Hereford City Police

... , went intoa long history of her grievances. She said that Recce was continually annoying her by calling her donkey, a Cheshire cat, &c, which bo worretted her that she did not know what to with her constitution. On Saturday Recce was on her premises ...

Published: Saturday 11 October 1862
Newspaper: Hereford Journal
County: Herefordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1926 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SHROPSHIRE SAYINGS

... inkle-weavers. He ran like the very costed. Her tongue went like a whipsaw (a large saw worked f two men). He grins like Cheshire cat- A person out of breath blows like a either adder). .. A woman recovering from a dangerous illness, said had been a mighty ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1871
Newspaper: Eddowes's Shrewsbury Journal
County: Shropshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1156 | Page: 4 | Tags: none