 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 284 pages
...the cabbages; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his field than any where else ; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some out-door...patch of Indian corn and potatoes, yet it was the worse conditioned firm in the neighbourhood. His children, too, were as ragged and wild as if they... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 196 pages
...the cabbages; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his lields than any where else; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some out-door...under his management , acre by acre , until there w as little more left than a mere patch of Indian corn and potatoes , yet it was the worst "conditioned... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1836 - 250 pages
...cabbages ; weeds were sure to grow nuicker in his fields than any where else ; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some out-door...patch of Indian corn and potatoes, yet it was the worst conditioned farm in the neighbourhood. His children, too, were as ragged and wild as if they... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1843 - 458 pages
...the cabbages; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than anywhere else; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some out-door...wild as if they belonged to nobody. His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits with the old clothes of his father.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1843 - 390 pages
...the cabbages; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than anywhere else; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some out-door...there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian cornand potatoes, yet it was the worst-conditioned farm in the neighbourhood. His children, too, were... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1843 - 400 pages
...fields than anywhere else; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some out- door work to do; so that though his patrimonial estate...patch of Indian corn and potatoes, yet it was the worst conditioned farm in the neighbourhood. His children, too, were as ragged and wild as if they... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 478 pages
...the cabbages; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than any where else; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some out-door...patch of Indian corn and potatoes, yet it was the worst conditioned farm in the neighborhood. His children, too, were as ragged and wild as if they belonged... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 482 pages
...mere patch of Indian corn and potatoes, yet it was the worst conditioned farm in the neighborhood. His children, too, were as ragged and wild as if they belonged to nobody. His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with the old clothes of his father.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 550 pages
...cabbages ; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than any where else ; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some out-door work to do ; so that though hi? patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre by acre, until there was little... | |
 | 1849 - 340 pages
...the cabbages; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than anywhere else ; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some outdoor...wild as if they belonged to nobody. His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with the old clothes, of his father.... | |
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... about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were continually falling to pieces; his cow would either go astray, or get among the cabbages; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than anywhere else; the rain always made... 
