 ... of his wife, was to take gun in hand and stroll away into the woods. Here he would sometimes seat himself at the foot of a tree, and share the contents of his wallet with Wolf, with whom he sympathized as a fellow-sufferer in persecution. "Poor Wolf...  The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent - Page 491839Full view - About this book
 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 254 pages
...the assemblage, 20 and call the members all to naught; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible...Rip was at last reduced almost to despair, and his 25 only alternative to escape from the labor of the farm and the clamor of his wife, was to take gun... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 pages
...the assemblage, and call the members all to nought ; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible...encouraging her husband in habits of idleness. Poor Eip was at last reduced almost to despair, and his only alternative to escape from the labor of the... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1898 - 406 pages
...the assemblage, and call the members all to naught ; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible...despair ; and his only alternative, to escape from the labor of the farm and clamor of his wife, was to take gun in hand and stroll away into the woods. Here... | |
 | 1898 - 200 pages
...of the assemblage and call the members all to naught; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible...despair ; and his only alternative, to escape from the labor of the farm and clamor of his wife, was to take gun in hand and stroll away into the woods. Here... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - 1898 - 412 pages
...would suddenly break in upon the tranquillity of the assemblage and call the members all to naught. 7. Poor Rip was at last reduced almost to despair, and his only alternative to escape from the labor of the farm and the clamor of his wife was to take gun in hand and stroll away into the woods.... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 434 pages
...the assemblage and call the members all to naught ; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible...despair ; and his only alternative, to escape from the labor of the farm and clamor of his wife, was to take gun in hand and stroll away into the woods. Here... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...the assemblage and call the members all to naught ; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible...despair ; and his only alternative, to escape from the labor of the farm and clamor of his wife, was to take gun in hand and stroll away into the woods. Here... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1899 - 220 pages
...of the assemblage and call the members all to naught; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible...^despair; and his only alternative, to escape from the labor of the farm and clamor of his wife, was to take gun in hand and stroll away into the woods. Here... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 554 pages
...the assemblage and call the members all to naught ; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible...encouraging her husband in habits of idleness. Poor Hip was at last reduced almost to despair ; and his only alternative, to escape from the labor of the... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - 1899 - 404 pages
...would suddenly break in upon the tranquillity of the assemblage and call the members all to naught. 7. Poor Rip was at last reduced almost to despair, and his only alternative to escape from the labor of the farm and the clamor of his" wife was to take gun in hand and stroll away into the woods.... | |
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