 | Washington Irving - 1901 - 546 pages
...made a point of setting in just as he had some out-door work to do ; so that though his patrimonial 10 estate had dwindled away under his management, acre...was the worst conditioned farm in the neighborhood. O y.His children, too, were as ragged and wild as if they 15 belonged to nobody. His son Rip, an urchin... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1901 - 376 pages
...made a point of setting in just as he had some out-door work to do ; so that though his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre...patch of Indian corn and potatoes, yet it was the worst-conditioned farm in the neighborhood. His children, too, were as ragged and wild as if they belonged... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1901 - 364 pages
...made a point of setting in just as he had some out-door work to do; so that though his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre...patch of Indian corn and potatoes, yet it was the worst-conditioned farm in the neighborhood. His children, too, were as ragged and wild as if they belonged... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1901 - 216 pages
...made a point of setting in just as he had some outdoor work to do : so that, though his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management acre...patch of Indian corn and potatoes, yet it was the worst-conditioned farm in the neighborhood. His children, too, were as ragged and wild as if they belonged... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1911 - 470 pages
...do; so that though his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre by acre, 15 until there was little more left than a mere patch...belonged to nobody. His son Rip, an urchin begotten 20 in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with the old clothes of his father. He was... | |
 | William Franklin Webster - 1912 - 368 pages
...always made a point of setting in just as he had some out-door work to do so that though his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management acre...was the worst conditioned farm in the neighborhood. THE COLON The word semicolon means " half a colon." The colon, then, has the use of a stronger semicolon,... | |
 | May Louise Harvey - 1912 - 424 pages
...rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some outdoor work to do : so that, though his estate had dwindled away under his management acre...was the worst conditioned farm in the neighborhood. II. Rip's Children, his Dog and his Friends His children, too, were as ragged and as wild as if they... | |
 | 1912 - 332 pages
...always made a point of setting in just as he had some outdoor work to do; so that though his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre...patch of Indian corn and potatoes, yet it was the worst-conditioned farm in the neighborhood. His children, too, were as ragged and wild as if they belonged... | |
 | William Franklin Webster - 1912 - 392 pages
...do, so that though his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his managemen^acre by acre^until there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian corn and potatoesjyet it was the worst conditioned farm in the neighborhood. THE COLON The word semicolon means... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1913 - 330 pages
...made a point of setting in just as he had some out-door work to do; so that though his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre...there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian com and potatoes, yet it was the worst conditioned farm in the neighborhood. His children, too, were... | |
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... of him. His fences were continually falling to pieces ; his cow would either go astray, or get among the cabbages; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than anywhere else ; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some out-door... 
