The Beauties of Washington IrvingCarey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1838 - 270 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 14
... called the servants from their work to exhort them to be diligent ; and buzzed about every hall and chamber , as idly restless and importunate as a blue - bottle fly on a warm summer's day . In the mean time the fatted calf had been ...
... called the servants from their work to exhort them to be diligent ; and buzzed about every hall and chamber , as idly restless and importunate as a blue - bottle fly on a warm summer's day . In the mean time the fatted calf had been ...
Σελίδα 25
... called the traveller's - room . This is a public room set apart at most inns for the ac- commodation of a class of wayfarers , called travellers , or riders ; a kind of commercial knights errant , who are in- cessantly scouring the ...
... called the traveller's - room . This is a public room set apart at most inns for the ac- commodation of a class of wayfarers , called travellers , or riders ; a kind of commercial knights errant , who are in- cessantly scouring the ...
Σελίδα 43
... called dough nuts , or oly keoks : a delicious kind of cake , at present scarce known in this city , excepting in genuine Dutch families . The tea was served out of a majestic delft tea - pot , ornamented with paintings of fat little ...
... called dough nuts , or oly keoks : a delicious kind of cake , at present scarce known in this city , excepting in genuine Dutch families . The tea was served out of a majestic delft tea - pot , ornamented with paintings of fat little ...
Σελίδα 51
... called New- Amsterdam . It is true there were some advocates for the original Indian name , and many of the best writers of the province did long continue to call it by the title of " The Manhattoes , " but this was discountenanced by ...
... called New- Amsterdam . It is true there were some advocates for the original Indian name , and many of the best writers of the province did long continue to call it by the title of " The Manhattoes , " but this was discountenanced by ...
Σελίδα 52
... called obsti- nacy - Ten Breeches had , therefore , the most metal , but Tough Breeches the best bottom - so that though Ten Breeches made a dreadful clattering about his ears , and battered and belaboured him with hard words and sound ...
... called obsti- nacy - Ten Breeches had , therefore , the most metal , but Tough Breeches the best bottom - so that though Ten Breeches made a dreadful clattering about his ears , and battered and belaboured him with hard words and sound ...
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