 Is anybody staying with you?" the lady doesn't answer "Yes; the butler, the three footmen, the parlour-maid, and so on," though the parlour-maid may be in the room, or the butler behind her chair. She says: "There is nobody staying with us," meaning nobody...  Sociological Endeavor - الصفحة 18المحررون: - عدد الصفحات: 404معاينة محدودة - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 1911 - عدد الصفحات: 352
...doesn't answer ' Yes ; the butler, the three footmen, the parlourmaid, and so on,' though the parlourmaid may be in the room, or the butler behind her chair....house ? ' then the lady will remember the butler, parlourmaid, and the rest. All language is used like that; you never get a question answered literally,... | |
 | Ernest Rhys, Catharine Amy Dawson Scott - 1923 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...doesn't answer 'Yes; the butler, the three footmen, the parlourmaid, and so on,' though the parlourmaid may be in the room, or the butler behind her chair....the house?' then the lady will remember the butler, parlourmaid, and the rest. All language is used like that ; you never get a question answered literally,... | |
 | Ernest Rhys, Catharine Amy Dawson Scott - 1923 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...doesn't answer 'Yes; the butler, the three footmen, the parlourmaid, and so on,' though the parlourmaid may be in the room, or the butler behind her chair....the house?' then the lady will remember the butler, parlourmaid, and the rest. All language is used like that ; you never get a question answered literally,... | |
 | David L. Morgan, Richard A. Krueger, Jean A. King - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 130
...doesn't answer "Yes; the butler, the three footmen, the parlourmaid, and so on," though the parlourmaid may be in the room, or the butler behind her chair....house?" then the lady will remember the butler, the parlourmaid, and the rest. All language is used like that; you never get a question answered literally,... | |
 | G. K. Chesterton, Martin Gardner - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 338
...doesn't answer "Yes; the buder, the three footmen, the parlourmaid, and so on," though the parlourmaid may be in the room, or the butler behind her chair....suppose a doctor inquiring into an epidemic asks, <rWho is staying in the house?" then the lady will remember the butler, parlourmaid, and the rest.... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...doesn't answer "Yes; the butler, the three footmen, the parlourmaid, and so on," though the parlourmaid may be in the room, or the butler behind her chair....house?" then the lady will remember the butler, the parlourmaid, and the rest. All language is used like that; you never get a question answered literally,... | |
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 1986 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...doesn't answer 'Yes; the butler, the three footmen, the parlourmaid, and so on,' though the parlourmaid may be in the room, or the butler behind her chair....house?' then the lady will remember the butler, the parlourmaid, and the rest. All language is used like that; you never get a question answered literally,... | |
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