That buttoned down before.
Halliwell: Nursery Rhymes of England, p. 60.
LYDIA MARIA CHILD. 1802-1880.
England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.
Supposititious Speech of James Otis. The Rebels, Chap. iv.
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DOUGLAS JERROLD. 1803-1857.
He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.