 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 422 σελίδες
...bark at him throughout the neighborhood. The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable * aversion to all kinds of profitable labor. It could...not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps and up hill and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 242 σελίδες
...would bark at him throughout the neighborhood. The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor. It could...sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's1 lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 170 σελίδες
...assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's1 lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though...not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1893 - 318 σελίδες
...thousand tricks on him with impunity ; and not a dog would bark at him throughout the neighbourhood. want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as lonoO and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all ' I-'or he would sit on a i1<et rock, l1'iti1 a rod... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 234 σελίδες
...would bark at him throughout the neighborhood. The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor. It could...not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1894 - 462 σελίδες
...would bark at him throughout the neighborhood. The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor. It could...not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowlingpiece on his shoulder, for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 422 σελίδες
...would bark at him throughout the neighborhood. The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor. It could...though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. Ho would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 280 σελίδες
...The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance;...with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, is and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He... | |
 | W. P. F. Ljunggren - 1893 - 178 σελίδες
...by fj'tn; sometimes if is used in the same meaning as though. He would sit on a wet rock — — — and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. (Irving, Sk. b. 20). Nor can I see it in an unamiable light, even though it sJumld be sometimes mistaken.... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 396 σελίδες
...would bark at, him throughout the neighborhood. The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor. It could...not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowlingpiece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill and... | |
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It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. 
