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" Winkle, however, was one of those happy mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound. "
The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent - Page 53
by Washington Irving - 1864 - 507 pages
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Two Years' Course in English Composition

Charles Lane Hanson - 1912 - 392 pages
...woodpecker. 8. He is one of the boys who have received prizes. 9. Boy after boy said he wished to go. 10. Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy mortals,...well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy. 11. Fortunately for the English tourists, the people of Switzerland proved truly hospitable. 12. If...
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Types of the Short Story: Selected Stories with Reading Lists

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1913 - 330 pages
...hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happ}r mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who...thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny (1) galligaskins: loose breeches. than work for a pound. If left to himself, he would have whistled...
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Types of the Short Story: Selected Stories with Reading Lists : Edited for ...

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1913 - 328 pages
...galligaskins,1 which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady docs her train in bad weather. Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy mortals, of foolish, well-oiled disposition, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought...
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An Advanced English Grammar: With Exercises

George Lyman Kittredge, Frank Edgar Farley - 1913 - 376 pages
...sometime in May. 14. If I could only get to work, we could live here with comfort. 15. If he had been left to himself, he would have whistled life away in perfect contentment. 16. If this frolic should lay me up with a fit of rheumatism, I shall have a blessed time with Dame...
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A Book of Short Stories

Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1914 - 404 pages
...hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy 15 mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who...would have whistled life away in perfect contentment; 20 but his wife kept continually dinning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness and the ruin...
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Studies in Reading: Seventh Grade

James William Searson, George Ellsworth Martin - 1914 - 394 pages
...galligaskins,22 which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those...and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound.23 If left to himself, he would have whistled life away in perfect contentment; but his wife...
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The Seventh Reader

Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - 1914 - 360 pages
...galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those...well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat 95 white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starve...
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Live Language Lessons: Three Book Series. Third Book

Howard Roscoe Driggs - 1914 - 464 pages
...— From "Snowbound," by Whittier. 4. Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy mortals of , dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with the least thought or trouble. — From "Rip Van Winkle," by Irving. 5. Then up rose Mrs. Cratchit,...
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An English Grammar: For Use in High and Normal Schools and in Colleges

Alma Blount, Clark Sutherland Northup - 1914 - 400 pages
...whichever is clear in the following substantive clause, which is appositiye to white bread or brown: eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble.— IKVING, The Sketck-Book. NOTE 2. — As seems to have somewhat the force of an indefinite pronoun in...
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The Elements of the Short Story

Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Fredrick Thomas Dawson - 1915 - 314 pages
...hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy 15 mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who...would have whistled life away in perfect contentment; 20 but his wife kept continually dinning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness and the ruin...
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