 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 438 pages
...first Dutch settlers. The low projecting eaves formed a piazza along the front, capable of being closed up in bad weather. Under this were hung flails, harness,...utensils of husbandry, and nets for fishing in the neighbouring river. Benches were built along the sides for summer use ; and a great spinning wheel... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 612 pages
...first Dutch settlers. The low projecting eaves formed a piazza along the front capable of being closed up in bad weather. Under this were hung flails, harness,...utensils of husbandry, and nets for fishing in the river. Benches were built along the sides for the summer use; and a great spinning wheel at one end,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1821 - 596 pages
...first Dutch settlers. The low projecting eaves formed a piazza along the front capable of being closed up in bad weather. Under this were hung flails, harness,...utensils of husbandry, and nets for fishing in the river. Benches were built along the sides for the summer use; and a great spinning wheel at one end,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 pages
...first Dutch settlers. The low projecting eaves formed a piazza along the front, capable of being closed up in bad weather. Under this were hung flails, harness,...utensils of husbandry, and nets for fishing in the neighbouring river. Benches were built along the sides for summer use ; and a great spinning wheel... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 490 pages
...the neighbouring river. Benches were built along the sides for summer use; and a great spinning wheel at one end, and' a churn at the other, showed the...From this piazza the wonderful Ichabod entered the hall,which formed the centre of the mansion and the place of usual residence. Here, rows of resplendent... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...Dutch settlers ; the low projecting eaves forming a piazza along the front, capable of being closed up in bad weather. Under this were hung flails, harness,...utensils of husbandry, and nets for fishing in the neighbouring river. Benches were built along the sides for summer use ; and a great spinning wheel... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 pages
...first Dutch settlers. The low projecting eaves formed a piazza along the front, capable of being closed up in bad weather. Under this were hung flails, harness,...utensils of husbandry, and nets for fishing in the neighbouring river. Benches were built along the sides for summer use ; and a great spinning wheel... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 194 pages
...were hung flaits , harness , various utensils of husbandry , and nets for fishing in the neighbouring river. Benches were built along the sides for summer...important porch might be devoted. From this piazza the wondering Ichabod entered the hall, which formed the centre of the mansion and the place of usual residence.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1843 - 400 pages
...were hung flails, harness, various utensils of husbandry, and nets for fishing in the neighbouring river. Benches were built along the sides for summer...important porch might be devoted. From this piazza the wondering Ichabod entered the hall, which formed the centre of the mansion, and the place of usual... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 1124 pages
...projecting eaves forming a piazza along the front, capable of being closed up in bad weather. Huder this were hung flails, harness, various utensils of...Benches were built along the sides for summer use j and a great spinning-wheel at one end, and a churn at the other, showed the various uses to which... | |
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It was one of those spacious farmhouses with high-ridged but lowly-sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first Dutch settlers, the low projecting eaves forming a piazza along the front capable of being closed up in bad weather. 
