 In one corner was a stagnant pool of water, surrounding an island of muck; there were several half-drowned fowls crowded together under a cart, among which was a miserable, crest-fallen cock, drenched out of all life and spirit; his drooping tail matted,...  Lessons in Language and Grammar - Page 43by Horace Sumner Tarbell, Martha Tarbell - 1900Full view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 406 pages
...several halfdrowned fowls crowded together under a cart, among which was a miserable, crest-fallen cock, drenched out of all life and spirit ; his drooping...standing patiently to be rained on, with wreaths of vapour rising from her reeking hide ; a wall-eyed horse, tired of the loneliness of the stable, was... | |
 | 1822 - 452 pages
...several half-drowned fowls crowded together under a cart, among which was a miserable, crestfallen cock, drenched out of all life and spirit : his drooping...standing patiently to be rained on, with wreaths of vapour rising from her reeking hide ; a wall-eyed horse, tired of the loneliness of the stable, was... | |
 | 1822 - 494 pages
...several half-drowned fowls, crowded together under a cart, among which was a miserable, crestfallen cock, drenched out of all life and spirit ; his drooping...water trickled from his back ; near the cart was a half-drowned cow, chewing the cud, and standing patiently to be rained on, with wreaths of vapour rising... | |
 | 1822 - 446 pages
...several half-drowned fowls crowded together under a cart, among which was a miserable, crestfallen cock, drenched out of all life and spirit : his drooping...water trickled from his back ; near the cart was a hall-dozing cow, chewing the cud, and standing patiently to be rained on, with wreaths of vapour rising... | |
 | 1822 - 522 pages
...half drowned fowls crowded together under a cart, among which •was a miserable crest-fallen cock, drenched out of all life and spirit ; his drooping...matted as it were into a single feather, along which tho water .trickled from his back ; near the cart was a half dozing cow, chewing the cud and standing... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1823 - 610 pages
...among which was a miserable, crestfallen cock, drenched out of all life and spirit ; his drooping,tail matted, as it were, into a single feather, along which...standing patiently to be rained on, with wreaths of vapour rising from her reeking hide; a wall-eyed horse, tired of the loneliness of the stable, was... | |
 | 1823 - 624 pages
...among which was a miserable, crestfallen cock, drenched out of all life and spirit ; his drooping.! ail matted, as it were, into a single feather, along which...standing patiently to be rained on, with wreaths of vapour rising from her reeking hide; a wall-eyed horse, tired of the loneliness of the stable, was... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 476 pages
...several half-drowned fowls crowded together under a cart, among which was a miserable, crestfallen cock, drenched out of all life and spirit; his drooping...standing patiently to be rained on, with wreaths- of vapour rising from her reekmg hide ; a wall-eyed horse, tired of the loneliness of the stable, was... | |
 | Cabinet - 1824 - 440 pages
...several half-drowned fowls crowded together under a cart, among which was a miserable, crest fallen cock, drenched out of all life and spirit ; his drooping...standing patiently to be rained on, with wreaths of vapour rising from her reeking hide ; a wall-eyed horse, tired of the loneliness of the stable, was... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1824 - 380 pages
...several half-drowned fowls crowded together under a cart, among which was a miserable, crest-fallen cock, drenched out of all life and spirit ; his drooping...standing patiently to be rained on, with wreaths of vapour rising from her reeking hide ; a wall-eyed horse, tired of the loneliness of the stable, was... | |
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