 | William Harris Elson - 1921 - 552 σελίδες
...eloquence. Rip had but one way of replying to all lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his...his eyes, but said nothing. This, however, always 5 provoked a fresh volley from his wife; so that he was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1922 - 136 σελίδες
...eloquence. Rip had but one Way of replying to all lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his...said nothing. This, however, always provoked a fresh vollev from his wife ; so that he was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the outside of the house... | |
 | Leonidas Warren Payne - 1917 - 734 σελίδες
...did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip had but one way of replying to grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his...only side which, in truth, belongs to a hen-pecked iso husband. 4 Rip's sole domestic adherent was his dog Wolf, who was as much hen-pecked as his master;... | |
 | Robert William Chambers - 1923 - 1250 σελίδες
...all lectures of the kind, and thai frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, s his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This, however, always voked a fresh volley from his wife, so that he was fain to draw off his f< and take to the outside... | |
 | Emma Miller Bolenius - 1926 - 648 σελίδες
...eloquence. Rip had but one way of replying to all lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his...side which, in truth, belongs to a henpecked husband. 9 Rip's sole domestic adherent was his dog Wolf, who was as much henpecked as his master; for Dame... | |
 | Leroy E. Armstrong - 1916 - 408 σελίδες
...eloquence. Rip had but one way of replying to all lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his...belongs to a henpecked husband. Rip's sole domestic adherent0 was his dog Wolf, who was as much henpecked as his master ; for Dame Van Winkle regarded... | |
 | Henry Carr Pearson, Charles Wesley Hunt - 1927 - 280 σελίδες
...eloquence. Rip had but one way of replying to all (7) of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his...said nothing. This, however, always provoked a fresh (8) from his wife; so that he was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the outside of the house... | |
 | Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 σελίδες
...eloquence. Rip had but one way of replying to all lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his...draw off his forces, and take to the outside of the house—the only side which, in truth, belongs to a hen-pecked husband. Rip's sole domestic adherent... | |
 | Thomas R. Cole - 1992 - 304 σελίδες
...would rather "starve on a penny than work for a pound." To escape Dame Van Winkle, Rip often withdraws to the "outside of the house — the only side which, in truth, belongs to a henpecked husband." When Rip returns to his town on the Hudson River, he is amazed and saddened to find "himself thus alone... | |
 | Gregg Camfield - 1997 - 255 σελίδες
..."Rip had but one way of replying to all lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing" (40-41). He has a similar response when faced by the ghosts of Hudson and his men, the tutelary spirits... | |
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Morning, noon, and night, her tongue was incessantly going, and everything he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip had but one way of replying to all lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit.... 
