 | Mark Twain - 1889 - 494 頁
...reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration — and it was on the very first day of it, too — was...crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backwards. Things ran along, a tournament nearly every week ; and now and then the boys used to want... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1890 - 592 頁
...reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration — and it was on the very first day of it, too — was...crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backwards. Things ran along, a tournament nearly every week; and now and then the boys used to want... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1899 - 430 頁
...reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration — and it was on the very first day of it, too — was...crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways. Things ran along, a tournament nearly every week ; and now and then the boys used to want... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1899 - 436 頁
...reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration — and it was on the very first day of it, too — was...crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways. Things ran along, a tournament nearly every week; and now and then the boys used to want... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1917 - 426 頁
...reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration — and it was on the very first day of it, too — was...crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways. Things ran along, a tournament nearly every week ; and now and then the boys used to want... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1917 - 474 頁
...first official thing I did, in my administration—and it was on the very first day of it, too—was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country...crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways. Things ran along, a tournament nearly every week; and now and then the boys used to want... | |
 | 1964 - 446 頁
...reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration — and it was on the very first day of it, too — was...crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways. . . . The first thing you want in a new country is a Patent Office; then work up your school... | |
 | Benjamin R. Barber, Michael J. Gargas McGrath - 432 頁
...comforts and affluence of modern nineteenth century America. His first act in office is to establish a patent office, "for I knew that a country without...crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways" (IX). After he defeats Sir Sagramor and the other knights, and brings all his nineteenth... | |
 | 1963 - 506 頁
...the very first day of it, too — tea* to start a Patent Office, for I knew that a country u-ithout a Patent Office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways. . . . The first thing you want in a new country is a Patent Office; then work up your school... | |
 | Carroll Pursell - 1990 - 340 頁
...Arthur's Court when he had Hank Morgan say: The very first official thing 1 did, in my administration — and it was on the very first day of it, too — was...crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backwards. Americans imagined themselves an inventive people; indeed, they saw ingenuity as a national... | |
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That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration — and it was on the very first day of it, too — was to start a patent office ; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent... 
