 | 1891 - 432 страници
...an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock,...down dale, to shoot a few squirrels or wild pigeons. He would never refuse to assist a neighbor, even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 270 страници
...an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock,...down dale, to shoot a few squirrels or wild pigeons. He would never refuse to assist a neighbor, even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 140 страници
...an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock,...down dale, to shoot a few squirrels or wild pigeons. He would never refuse to assist a neighbor, even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 278 страници
...aversion to all kinds of profitable labor. It could not be from the want of assiduity or persever.. ance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long...down dale, to shoot a few squirrels or wild pigeons. He would never refuse to assist a neighbor, even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all... | |
 | John Kneeland, Henry Nathan Wheeler - 1891 - 494 страници
...an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock,...He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hoinis together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill and down dale, to shoot a few squirrels... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 страници
...an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour. It could not be for the want of assiduity or perseverance; for he would sit on a wet rock, with...murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by n single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1891 - 168 страници
...patience necessary to a fisherman is described by Washington Irving in his account of Rip Van Winkle who " would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy...though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble." trolls. This word is more generally applied to the bait used than to the water. To troll is to turn... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 422 страници
...insuperable * aversion to all kinds of profitable labor. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock,...down dale, to shoot a few squirrels or wild pigeons. He would never refuse to assist a neighbor even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 170 страници
...an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's1 lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1893 - 318 страници
...and an obedient henpecked husband " 24 " A simple good-natured fellow, of the name of Uip Van PAGE " For he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long...Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur " 28 " A termagant wife may therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing ; and if... | |
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It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. 
