... ' 'Tis in vain I storm and hector. Weep, implore, or feign to rat. There he stands, the lanky spectre. Grinning like a Cheshire cat! Like a rushlight in its socket. I’m worn down with giief and gout. For the Whigs have picked pocket. Knocked me down and ...

... Oxford Chronicle. Puns.—l made a pun the other day (says Charles Lamb), and palmed it upon Holcroft, who grinned like * Cheshire cat. Why do cats grin in Cheshire Because was once a county palatine, and cats cannot help laughing whenever they think of ...

... inthunder. (0Roars of laughter.) But when he Angles the coppers from the poor man's la- bour in hois pocket, be grins like a Cheshire cat for cheese. '(Ieuowed laeghter.) This beast calls me violent, while he is in the aet of enlisting 600,000 fighting men ...

... Rose; under which flower, in figurative sense, the proceedings of this sect of Rosycrucians are carried on. A Grin for Cheshire Cats. —Alluding to Cheshire, in reference to the militia, the Liverpool Mercury says“ There is little doubt now, that recourse ...

... statement, which led an honourable magistrate to advise him not to stand there grinning like a Cheshire cat. We never saw, to our knowledge, a Cheshire cat, but if the cats of the palatine grinlike our Irish friend,why they beat the laughing hyena hollow ...

... sticking against with tremendous force two or three inches from my bead. When 1 got on the boat, I began grinning like Cheshire cat —thought it very jolly. These are the only adventuies 1 can boast of, and am sorry something good does not turn up. They ...

... standing the specta- tors indulged in a most unseemly display of ill-feeling, hissing like serpents and grinning like Cheshire cats.) The Mayor: We cannot permit such displays as that which has just taken place, and if it is repeated we must have the ...

... remained standing the spectators indulged in a most unseemly display of ill-feeling, hissing like serpents and grinnirg like Cheshire cats.) The Mayor : We cannot permit s'ich displays as that which has jast taken place, and if it repeated we must have tbe room ...

... was but a hundred yards from of the concession ! —rierelt rw *Pare Lei • phad seen a rnany elaborately, grinning like Cheshire cats at all the me now, and the distance momentarily lessened, Any. ',rani from the us if b„atifal akin, I saw around the Hum ...

... sed, in a varry masculine an’ sepulchral tone, “ I’ve thee to thank for this; then gi’d a shriek, an’, grinnin’ loike a Cheshire cat, fell o’ clahtin’ him wi’t shawl, amid roars o’ laffter, an’ peltin’ him wi’ batter, till he wor nearly as bad as I’d been ...

... An Electoral Anomaly in Cheshire. —A correspondent signing himself A Cheshire Cat writes to a London contemporary to draw attention to an anomaly in the existing state of the connty franchise, which may, he thinks, be well exemplified by the following ...

... to the use of machinery .adopted by the Government under the pressure of the great demand. Remedy for Chester Rioters.—A Cheshire Cat. There having been considerable curiosity as to what the Government Reform Bill would turn out, believe we are in position ...