 | Edward Everett Hale - 1903 - 544 pages
...white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starve ori a penny than work for a pound. If left to himself,...carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family.1 Morning, noon, 'and night, her tongue was incessantly going, and everything he said or did... | |
 | 1903 - 362 pages
...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. If...life away in perfect contentment ; but his wife kept dinning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family.... | |
 | D.C. Heath and Company - 1903 - 362 pages
...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. If...life away in perfect contentment ; but his wife kept dinning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family.... | |
 | J. Clifford Kennedy - 1903 - 40 pages
...belonged to nobody." 3. "On entering the amphitheatre, new objects of wonder presented themselves." 4. "His wife kept continually dinning in his ears about...carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family." 5. "He heard a voice from a distance hallooing, 'Rip Van Winkle, Rip Van Winkle.' " 6. "His cow would... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - 1904 - 358 pages
...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. If...continually dinning in his ears about his idleness, lys carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family. Morning, noon, and night, her tongue... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1906 - 472 pages
...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. If...noon, and night, her tongue was incessantly going, and every thing he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip had but one way... | |
 | California. State Board of Education - 1905 - 408 pages
...hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. Rip Van Winkle if left to himself would have whistled life away in perfect contentment;...carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family. 5. Rip's sole domestic adherent was his dog Wolf, who was as much henpecked as his master ; for Dame... | |
 | William Patten - 1905 - 390 pages
...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. If...perfect contentment; but his wife kept continually din\ ning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family.... | |
 | Benjamin N. Black - 1906 - 352 pages
...up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. 9. Rip Van Winkle if left to himself would have whistled life away in perfect contentment;...carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family. 10. Rip's sole domestic adherent was his dog Wolf, who was as much henpecked as his master; for Dame... | |
 | Isabel Moore - 1906 - 296 pages
...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. If...perfect contentment; but his wife kept continually dinningin his ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family.... | |
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Rip Van 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.... 
