 | Washington Irving - 1901 - 186 pages
...daring tongue of this terrible virago,1 who charged him outright with encouraging her husband irWfiabits of idleness. * Poor Rip was at last reduced almost -to despair ; and his only alternat1v^*to escape from the labor of the farm and clamor of his wife, was to take .gun in hand and... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1922 - 136 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 oi the farm and clamor of his wife, was to take gun in hand and stroll away into the woods. Here... | |
 | Robert William Chambers - Short stories, American - 1923 - 1250 pages
...and call the members all to nought; 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 Wolf," he would say, "thy mistress leads thee a dog's life of it; but never mind, my lad, whilst I... | |
 | Emma Miller Bolenius - American literature - 1926 - 648 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...with encouraging her husband in habits of idleness. 13 Poor Rip was at last reduced almost to despair; and his only alternative, to escape from the labor... | |
 | Mackenzie Bell - American fiction - 1927 - 516 pages
...and call the member, all to naught ; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedders himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago, who...alternative, to escape from the labour of the farm and clamour of his wife, was to take gun in hand and stroll away into the woods. Here he would sometimes... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - American literature - 1927 - 1288 pages
...other idle personages of the 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... | |
 | Melvin Everett Haggerty - American literature - 1927 - 584 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 the clamor of his wife, was to take gun in hand and stroll away into the woods.... | |
 | Arthur G. Adams - Literary Criticism - 1980 - 356 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, Arthur Rackham, Pat Stewart - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1983 - 52 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... | |
 | Jane Roland Martin - Education - 1995 - 252 pages
...into the woods where Hendrick Hudson and his men were playing ninepins in order to get away from home: "Poor Rip was at last reduced almost to despair; and...alternative, to escape from the labour of the farm and clamour of his wife, was to take gun in hand and stroll away into the woods." By no means do all our... | |
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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... 
