Liberal British statesman who served as prime minister four times (1809-1898)

Usage examples of gladstone.

John Hammond went out of the house, with the Gladstone bag in his hand, and shook the dust of Fellside off his feet.

When men tell us that the old Liberal politicians of the type of Gladstone cared only for ideals, of course, they are talking nonsense--they cared for a great many other things, including votes.

Gladstone with his assorted bottles and gamy socks in one of his half sober moments hellbent on reading me the letter of the law, U.

When he returned that night to Brackenhurst with two large trunks, full of underclothing and so forth, he had to come round once more to the Monteiths, as Philip anticipated, to bring back the Gladstone bag and the brown portmanteau.

Gladstone, who is fast nearing his eightieth birthday, would boast, in the style of Caleb, that he was as good a man with his axe as he was when he was forty, but I would back him,--if the match were possible, for a hundred shekels, against that over-confident old Israelite, to cut down and chop up a cedar of Lebanon.

We stowed Terence’s luggage, which consisted of a large Gladstone bag, two bandboxes, a valise, three hampers, a wooden crate, a tin box, a roll of rugs, and two fishing poles, in the prow, and mine in the stern, which completely filled the boat, so that we had to pull it all out and start again.

And it may be remarked in passing that the Gladstone government, thus far, though pursuing this policy more moderately than the Beaconsfield government, shows no intention of abandoning it.

Terence said, grabbing for the Gladstone bag, and I saw that we had hit the bank head-on.

Ned didnt watch where he was going, Terence said, grabbing for the Gladstone bag, and I saw that we had hit the bank head-on.

As it passed over, the hook caught the wire strung between the telegraph poles and whisked off the Gladstone bag and the painting, the bungee cord taking the initial strain out of the pick-up.

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We got a big Gladstone for the clothes, and a couple of hampers for the victuals and the cooking utensils.

There was the Gladstone and the small hand-bag, and the two hampers, and a large roll of rugs, and some four or five overcoats and macintoshes, and a few umbrellas, and then there was a melon by itself in a bag, because it was too bulky to go in anywhere, and a couple of pounds of grapes in another bag, and a Japanese paper umbrella, and a frying pan, which, being too long to pack, we had wrapped round with brown paper.

On the wall opposite a portrait of Mr Gladstone glared relentlessly down on this dereliction of the licensing laws.

Here he switched on a light and I saw heaps of ancient baggage, old portmanteaus, Gladstone bags.