A skit on the Highland drovers who passed that way with cattle for London.
When I was seventeen, I did a skit on a little book called 'How to Live on Sixpence a Day.
The author of the skit had fancied that a great deal could be made of such a part, given to the right actress, but now, since it had been doled out to Carrie, he would as leave have had it cut out.
The manager who was putting on the summer skit at the Casino had never heard of Carrie, but the several notices she had received, her published picture, and the programme bearing her name had some little weight with him.
There are sveral species of fir in this neighbourhood which I shall discribe as well as my slender botanicall skit will enable me and for the convenience of comparison with each other shal number them.
When I got back to college, I found a group of men in the quad reading the skit in The New Oxonian.
But The Lay of the Lovelorn is a clumsy and rather vulgar skit on Locksley Hall--a poem on which two such writers as Sir Theodore Martin and Professor Aytoun would have done well not to lay their sacrilegious hands.
He was rewarded with a pictorial skit representing him on the point of drowning, while cabby was trying to save him by holding out his whip, which proved too short for the purpose.
The connection is very obvious; it only wanted one single wag to remember the skit when Napoleon became engaged to Eugenie de Montijo.
This was a skit purporting to be an outline or draft for an article on Haslinger's career.
That he was sensitive to foreign criticism is shown by his skit on M.
Punch dimly recognized Browning's greatness while resenting his obscurities and eccentricities, and in a further skit on the Society carefully disclaims any disrespect for Browning himself.
Altogether this is an excellent skit on the critics who greet all the efforts of the young with a foolish voice of praise.
I once heard in Paris, Levasseur, the French counterpart of our own Corney Grain, giving a skiton Robert le Diable, illustrating various stage conventions.
It was written half in French and mock-Italian, and half in Russian, and was an excellent skit on an old-fashioned Italian opera.
Skit by Randolph Caldecott, in the possession of John Greenaway, Esq.
He then produced a telling littleskit on her manner which so delighted Kate Greenaway that she preserved it till her dying day.
This skit of Dennison's really settled me for a time, but I did stir up one or two men whom I had never expected to do anything.
The little skit was widely copied and reached the Queen herself in due time, and her son, Prince Edward, who never forgot its humor.
The skit was harmless enough, but it was of the Comstock grain.
Life at the farm may have furnished agricultural inspiration, for Clemens wrote something about Horace Greeley's farming, also a skit concerning Henry Ward Beecher's efforts in that direction.
He was writing a skit about a bit of doggerel which was then making nights and days unhappy for many undeserving persons who in an evil moment had fallen upon it in some stray newspaper corner.
A foreign estimate of the value of English Chess Players from Covent Garden" was the title of a little skit which caused some amusement five or six years ago.
It was a skit the eighth grade did and Timmy was in it.
One of your other students, Cindy Kirschner, told me that you wrote a skit based on Cinderella for the eighth grade when you had Timmy in the class.
She was the one who remembered the class play or skit or whatever it was.
A further point of interest about this famous sketch was that Charles Keene was deeply offended by it at first--in the groundless belief that it was intended as a skit upon himself.
The character is a skit on Anthony Munday, the dramatist.
Barrie sent him the manuscript of a skit called "A Slice of Life.
Thus, Henry Irving found it advisable to take criminal proceedings against a paper for a perfectly harmless and very humorous skit written by Mr. G.
There appeared in Punch one week a cleverskit entitled “Egoes of the Week.
FN#228] A skitat Ishák, making the Devil praise him.
They were then at their very best, and I think that was the night that Weedon and his brother gave their humorous skit on the extraction of teeth.
He was the originator of the Granta and is on the staff of Punch, for which journal one of his best known and most amusing contributions was a skit purporting to be from the Emperor William to Queen Victoria.
