 Indian corn or building stone fences; the women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands and to do such little odd jobs as their less obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business...  The Works of Washington Irving - Страница 45по Washington Irving - 1857Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 422 страници
...their less obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own ; but as to doing family duty...pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country ; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong in spite of him. His fences were continually falling... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 170 страници
...their less obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own ; but as to doing family duty,...declared it was of no use to work on his farm. It 1 See note, p. 108. was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country. Everything... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 160 страници
...found it impossible. In fact, he declared it was of no use to work on his farm. It 1 See note, p. 108. was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country. Everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were continually falling... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1893 - 318 страници
...their less obliging husbands would not do for them. — In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own ; but as to doing family duty,...pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country ; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were continually... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 234 страници
...their less obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own; but as to doing family duty,...pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country ; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were continually... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 422 страници
...their less obliging husbands would not do for them. 1n a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own ; but as to doing family duty,...impossible. In fact, he declared it was of no use to wort on his farm ; it was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country ; everything... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1894 - 462 страници
...less obliging husbands would not do for them ; — in a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own ; but as to doing family duty,...he found it impossible. In fact he declared it was no use to work on his farm ; it was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 404 страници
...their less obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own ; but as to doing family duty,...keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible. 48 Cbe Shctcb=J6ooh In fact, he declared it was of no use to work on his farm ; it was the most pestilent... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 280 страници
...their less obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word , Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own; but as to doing family duty, and keeping his farm in so order, he found it impossible. In fact he declared it was of no use to work English authors. 47.... | |
 | Robert Comfort Metcalf, Thomas Metcalf - 1894 - 300 страници
...playthings, and told [to] them long stories of ghosts, witches, and Indians. 4. He said that his farm was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country. 5. A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows sharper... | |
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