 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1898 - 328 pages
...probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eelpot. The schoolhouse stood in a rather lonely but pleasant situation, just at...hill, with a brook running close by, and a formidable birch tree growing at one end of it. From hence the low murmur of the pupils' voices, conning over... | |
 | 1898 - 264 pages
...probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eel pot. The schoolhouse stood in a rather lonely but pleasant situation, just at...hill, with a brook running close by and a formidable birch tree growing at one end of it. From hence the low murmur of his pupils' voices, conning over... | |
 | 1898 - 266 pages
...Van Houten, from the mystery of an eel pot. The schoolhouse stood in a rather lonely but pleas,int situation, just at the foot of a woody hill, with a brook running close by and a formidable birch tree growing nt one end of it. From hence the low murmur of his pupils' voices, conning over... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1899 - 220 pages
...probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eel-pot. The schoolhouse stood in a rather lonely but pleasant situation, just at...voices, conning over their lessons, might be heard on a drowsy summer's day, like the hum of a bee-hive; interrupted now and then by the authoritative... | |
 | William Landon Felter - 1900 - 244 pages
...probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eelpot. The school-house stood in a rather lonely but pleasant situation, just at...voices, conning over their lessons, might be heard of a drowsy summer's day, like the hum of a beehive; interrupted now and then by the authoritative... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1900 - 184 pages
...is a small bird with a very long bill. Houten, from the mystery of an eelpot.1 The schoolhouse stood in a rather lonely but pleasant situation, just at...hill, with a brook running close by, and a formidable 2 birch tree growing at one end of it. From hence the low murmur of his pupils' voices, conning over... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1900 - 252 pages
...borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eel-pot. The school-house stood in a rather lonely but pleasant situation, just at...hill, with a brook running close by and a formidable birch tree growing at one end of it. From hence the low murmur of his pupils' voices, conning over... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1900 - 596 pages
...probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eel-pot. The schoolhouse stood in a rather lonely but pleasant situation, just at...hill, with a brook running close by, and a formidable birch tree growing at one end of it. From hence the low murmur of his pupils' voices, conning over... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1900 - 170 pages
...borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eelpot. - The schoolhouse stood in a rather lonely but pleasant situation, just at...of a woody hill, with a brook running close by, and ar formidable birch tree growing at one end of it. From hence the low murmur of his pupils' voices,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1900 - 416 pages
...situation, just at the foot of a woody hill, with a brook running close by and a formidable birch tree growing at one end of it. From hence the low murmur of his pupils' voices, conning ovei their lessons, might be heard in a drowsy summer's day like tht hum of a bee-hive, interrupted... | |
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... so that though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out : an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eel-pot. 
