 ... and laying it on those of the strong. Your mere puny stripling, that winced at the least flourish of the rod, was passed by with indulgence; but the claims of justice were satisfied by inflicting a double portion on some little tough, wrongheaded,...  The Irving Gift: Being Choice Gems - Page 151by Washington Irving - 1853 - 270 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - 1903 - 814 pages
...inflicting a double portion on some little, tough, wrong-headed, broad-skirted Dutch urchin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the...companion and playmate of the larger boys ; and on holiday afternoons would convoy some of the smaller ones home, who happened • THE SKETCH BOOK. 359... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1903 - 544 pages
...inflicting a double portion on some little, tough, wrong-headed, broad-skirted Dutch urchin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the...companion and playmate of - the larger boys ; and on holiday afternoons would convoy some of the smaller ones home, who happened to have pretty sisters,... | |
 | Charles Madison Curry - American literature - 1903 - 572 pages
...inflicting a double portion on some little, tough, wrong-headed, broad-skirted Dutch urchin, 165 who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the...consolatory to the smarting urchin, that "he would remember I7O it, and thank him for it the longest day he had to live." When school hours were over, he was even... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - English language - 1926 - 912 pages
...follow is not registered by the OED, the following illustrative quotations may be deemed acceptable: He never inflicted a chastisement without following...thank him for it the longest day he had to live." WASH. IRV., S ketch - B k., XXXII, 345. It is intended to follow the ten volumes of the text with an... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1905 - 460 pages
...inflicting a double portion on some little, tough, wrong-headed, broad-skirted Dutch urchin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the...companion and playmate of the larger boys; and on holiday afternoons would convoy some of the smaller ones home, who happened to have pretty sisters,... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - Wit and humor - 1905 - 318 pages
...inflicting a double portion on some little tough, wrongheaded, broad-skirted Dutch urchin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the...companion and playmate of the larger boys; and on holiday afternoons would convoy some of the smaller ones home, who happened to have pretty sisters,... | |
 | Hanson Hart Webster - Readers and speakers - 1905 - 480 pages
...inflicting a double portion on some little tough, wrong headed, broadskirted Dutch urchin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the...thank him for it the longest day he had to live." W hen school hours were over, he was even the companion and playmate of the larger boys ; and on holiday... | |
 | Frederick Brigham De Berard - Literature - 1905 - 354 pages
...double portion on some 1 I little, tough, wrong-headed, broad-skirted Dutch urchin, j 1 who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the...thank him for it the longest day he had to live." i When school hours were over, he was even the companion and playmate of the larger boys ; and on holiday... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - Readers - 1906 - 416 pages
...inflicting a double portion on some little, tough, wrong-headed, broad-skirted Dutch urchin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the...companion and playmate of the larger boys; and on holiday afternoons would convoy some of the smaller ones home, who happened to have pretty sisters,... | |
 | Isabel Moore - Readers - 1906 - 360 pages
...inflicting a double portion on some little, tough, wrongheaded, broad-skirted Dutch urchin, who sulked and swelled, and grew dogged and sullen beneath the...him for it, the longest day he had to live." When school-hours were over, he was even the companion and playmate of the larger boys ; and on holiday... | |
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