 Netherlands, stands a little, old-fashioned stone mansion, all made up of gable ends, and as full of angles -and corners as an old cocked hat.  Around the World - Page 15by Stella Webster Carroll Tolman, Tolman (Mrs. Stella Webster (Carroll)) - 1908Full view - About this book
 | 1839 - 742 pages
...the great Mediterranean Sea of the New Netherlands, stands a little oldfashioned stone mansion, all made up of gable-ends, and as full of angles and corners as an old cocked hat. Though but of small dimensions, yet, like many small people, it is of mighty spirit, and values itself... | |
 | American periodicals - 1839 - 584 pages
...the great Mediterranean Sea of the New-Netherlands, stands a little old-fashioned Btone mansion, all made up of gable-ends, and as full of angles and corners, as an old cocked hat. Though but of small dimensions, yet, like many small people, it is of mighty spirit, and values itself... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1855 - 402 pages
...the great Mediterranean Sea of the New Netherlands, stands a little old-fashioned stone mansion, all made up of gable-ends, and as full of angles and corners as an old cocked hat. It is said, in fact, to have been modelled after the cocked hat of Peter the Headstrong, as the Escurial... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1855 - 266 pages
...the great Mediterranean Sea of the New Netherlands, stands a little old-fashioned stone mansion, all made up of gable-ends, and as full of angles and corners as an old cocked hat. It is said, in fact, to have been modelled after the cocked hat of Peter the Headstrong, as the Escurial... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1855 - 632 pages
...the great Mediterranean Sea of the New-Netherlands, stands a little old-fashioned stone mansion, all made up of gable-ends, and as full of angles and corners as an old cocked hat. It is said, in fact, to have bcen modeled after the cocked hat of Peter the Headstrong, as the Escurial... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1855 - 780 pages
...the great Mediterranean Sea of the New Netherlands, stands a little old-fashioned stone mansion, all made up of gableends, and as full of angles and corners as an old cocked bat. It is said, in fact, to have been modelled after the cocked hat of Peter the Headstrong, as the... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1855 - 590 pages
...Mediterranean Sea of the New-Netherlands, stands a little old-fashioned stone mansion, all made np of gable-ends, and as full of angles and corners as an old cocked hat. It is said, in fact, to have been modeled after the •cocked hat of Peter the Headstrong, as the Escuriul... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - American literature - 1856 - 338 pages
...Chronicles of Wolfert / Roost. We there read that the Roost is ' an oldfashioned stone-mansion, all made up of gable-ends, and as full of angles and corners as an old cocked-hat.' The imaginative sketch of "VVolfert and the quaint historian Knickerbocker, who are supposed... | |
 | Pierre Munroe Irving - Authors, American - 1864 - 476 pages
...gives a humorous description of " the little old-fashioned stone mansion, all made up of gable ends, and as full of angles and corners as an old cocked hat ; " and recounts the remarkable inhabitants it has had at various periods of history ; and how it came... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1863 - 396 pages
...the great Mediterranean Sea of the NewNetherlands, stands a little old-fashioned stone mansion, all made up of gable-ends, and as full of angles and corners as an old cocked hat. It is said, in fact, to have been modelled after the cocked hat of Peter the Headstrong, as the Escurial... | |
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