 | Washington Irving - 1886 - 152 pages
...that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terriblefvirago, who charged him outright with encouraging her husband in habits of idleness. Poor Eip was at last reduced almost to despair ; and his only no alternative, to escape from the labor of... | |
 | Washington Irving - Americans - 1888 - 624 pages
...and call the members all to naught ; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago, who...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... | |
 | Mark Twain - Fiction - 1888 - 748 pages
...and call the members all to naught; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago, who...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... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...and call the members all to naught; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Yedder himself, sacred from, the daring tongue of this terrible virago, who...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... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - Readers - 1889 - 524 pages
...that august personage Nicholas Vedder himself sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago,io who charged him outright with encouraging her husband in habits of idleness. ai Poor Rip was at last reduced almost to despair, and his only alternative to escape from the labor... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains (N.Y.) - 1890 - 570 pages
...virago, who charged him outright with encouraging her husband in habits of idleness. Poor Bip was <d last reduced almost to 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 - American essays - 1891 - 270 pages
...and call the members all to naught ; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago, who...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... | |
 | American literature - 1891 - 508 pages
...and call the members all to naught ; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago, who...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... | |
 | American prose literature - 1891 - 432 pages
...and call the members all to naught; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago, who...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 - American essays - 1891 - 276 pages
...and call the members all to naught; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago, who...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... | |
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... 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... 
