 He assisted the farmers occasionally in the lighter labors of their farms — helped to make hay, mended the fences, took the horses to water, drove the cows from pasture and cut wood for the winter fire. He laid aside, too, all- the dominant dignity...  The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent - Page 290by Washington Irving - 1821 - 343 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 160 pages
...it in his little empire the school, and became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating. He found favor in the eyes of the mothers by petting the children,...particularly the youngest ; and like " the lion bold," which whilom so magnanimously " the lamb did hold," 2 he would sit with a child on one knee, and rock a cradle... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1893 - 318 pages
...hay ; mended the fences ; took the horses to water ; drove the cows from pasture ; and cut wood for the winter fire. He laid aside, too, all the dominant...particularly the youngest ; and like the lion bold, which whilom so magnanimously the lamb did hold, he would sit with a child on one knee, and rock a cradle... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 234 pages
...hay ; mended the fences ; took the horses to water ; drove the cows from pasture ; and cut wood for the winter fire. He laid aside, too, all the dominant...became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating. He found favor in the eyes of the mothers, by petting the children^ particularly the youngest ; and like the... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1894 - 462 pages
...from pasture ; and cut wood for the winter fire. He laid aside, too, all the dominant dig« 266 nity and absolute sway, with which he lorded it in his...became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating. He found favor in the eyes of the mothers, by petting the children, particularly the youngest ; and like the... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 396 pages
...make hay; mended the fences; took the horses to water; drove the cows from pasture; and cut wood for the winter fire. He laid aside, too, all the dominant...became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating. He found favor in the eyes of the mothers, by petting the children, particularly the youngest; and like the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 482 pages
...fences ; took the horses to water ; drove the cows from pasture ; and cut wood for the winter fire. lie laid aside, too, all the dominant dignity and absolute...school, and became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating. lie found favor in the eyes of the mothers, by petting the children, particularly the youngest ; and... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 238 pages
...make hay, mended the fences, took the horses to water, drove the cows from pasture, and cut wood for the winter fire. He laid aside, too, all the dominant...became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating. He found favor in the eyes of the mothers by petting the children, particularly the youngest ; and like the... | |
 | 1896 - 374 pages
...it in his little empire the school, and became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating. He found favor in the eyes of the mothers by petting the children,...particularly the youngest ; and like " the lion bold," which whilom so magnanimously "the lamb did hold,"2 he would sit with a child on one knee, and rock a cradle... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 72 pages
...make hay; mended the fences; took the horses to water; drove the cows from pasture; and cut wood for the winter fire. He laid aside, too, all the dominant...became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating. He found favor in the eyes of the mothers, by petting the children, particularly the youngest; and like the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 pages
...hay ; mended the fences ; took the horses to water ; drove the cows from pasture ; and cut wood for the winter fire. He laid aside, too, all the dominant...became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating. He found favor in the eyes of the mothers by petting the children, particularly the youngest ; and like the... | |
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