The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in thefurnishing of that atrocious house.
Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefullyfurnished, and was very clean. ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
1714 (date written),[Jonathan Swift],Some Free Thoughts upon the Present State of Affairs.[…], Dublin; London:[…] T. Cooper,[…], published1741,→OCLC,page 3:
[…] Miniſters are ſo wiſe to leave their Proceedings to be accounted for by Reaſoners at a Diſtance, who often mould them into Syſtems, that do not only go down very well in the Coffee-Houſe, but are Supplies for Pamphlets in the preſent Age, and may probablyfurniſh Materials for Memoirs and Hiſtories in the next.
For, that the ordure, which continually gathers on the skin, would ſoon ſtop the pores of it, if the ſweat were notfurniſht with ſome efficacious diſſolvent to open and pierce them.
1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Several Adventures that Happened to the Author.[…]”, inTravels into Several Remote Nations of the World.[…][Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London:[…]Benj[amin] Motte,[…],→OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag),page247:
I was every dayfurniſhing the Court with ſome ridiculous Story; andGlumdalclitch, although ſhe loved me to Exceſs, yet was arch enough to inform the Queen, whenever I committed any Folly that ſhe thought would be diverting to her Majeſty.
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