 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 1002 pages
...lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This,...draw off his forces, and take to the outside of the house — the only side which, in truth, belongs to a hen-pecked husband. Rip's sole domestic adherent... | |
 | Christian Brothers - 1884 - 516 pages
...lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This,...draw off his forces, and take to the outside of the house — the only side which, in truth, belongs to a hen-pecked husband. Rip's sole domestic adherent... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1884 - 988 pages
...lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This,...always provoked a fresh volley from his wife, so that be was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the outside of the house, — the only side which,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1885 - 224 pages
...lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This,...draw off his forces, and take to the outside of the house — the only side which, in truth, belongs to a hen-pecked husband. antiquity chivalrous equipped... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1885 - 440 pages
...lectures of the kind, and that by frequent use had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This,...draw off his forces and take to the outside of the house, the only side which in truth belongs to a hen-pecked husband. Rip's sole domestic adherent was... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 pages
...lectures of the kind ; and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This, however, always provoked a fresh volley 1 from his wife, so that he was fain2 to draw off his forces,3 and take to the outside of the house,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 624 pages
...lectures of the kind ; and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This, however, always provoked a fresh volley1 from his wife, so that he was fain2 to draw off his forces,3 and take to the outside of the... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1888 - 748 pages
...lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This,...draw off his forces, and take to the outside of the house — the only side which, in truth, belongs to a hen-pecked husband. Rip's old domestic adherent... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889 - 524 pages
...use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said»i nothing. This, however, always provoked a fresh volley...draw off his forces, and take to the outside of the house — the only side which, in truth, belongs to a henpecked husband. Kip's sole domestic adherent... | |
 | 1891 - 432 pages
...lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This,...draw off his forces, and take to the outside of the house — the only side which, in truth, belongs to a henpecked husband. Rip's sole domestic adherent... | |
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Morning, noon, and night, her tongue was incessantly going, and everything he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip had but one way of replying to all lectures of the kind, and that by frequent use had grown into a habit.... 
