Nature seemed to have entered into the jest, and hesitated to the last whether to make her a boy or a girl. Her taste led her to hunt with her brothers, to wrestle with the stable-boys, and to saw wood with the carpenter. She worked well in iron, could... The London Quarterly Review - Страница 2611846Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Sir Daniel Wilson - 1878 - 392 страници
...her a boy or a girl. Her taste led her to hunt with her brothers, to wrestle with the stable boys, and to saw wood with the carpenter. She worked well...made excellent trunks, played well on the fiddle, sang a man's song in a bass voice, and was by many people suspected of being one. She learnt to write... | |
| David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1892 - 556 страници
...wood with the carpenter. " She worked well in iron, could shoe a horse quicker than the blacksmith, made excellent trunks, played well on the fiddle,...bass voice, and was by many people suspected of being a man." Sir Walter Scott knew her well, and speaks of her " jockey coat, masculine stride, strong voice,... | |
| Robert Boucher - 1899 - 322 страници
...the authoress as a droll, ingenious fellow, who could shoe a horse more quickly than the smith, who made excellent trunks, played well on the fiddle,...voice, and was by many people suspected of being one — an original being, iu the making of whom Nature seemed to have hesitated to the last whether to... | |
| Alison Cockburn - 1900 - 360 страници
...iron, could shoe a horse quicker than the smith, made excellent trunks, played well on the fiddle, sang a man's song in a bass voice, and was by many people...taste for reading which she greatly improved. She came to spend a few months with my mother soon after her marriage ; and at the time I am speaking of... | |
| Lord Henry Cockburn Cockburn - 1910 - 556 страници
...make her a boy or a girl. Her taste led her to hunt with her brothers, to wrestle with the stable boys and to saw wood with the carpenter. She worked well...played well on the fiddle, sung a man's song in a strong, bass voice, and was by many people suspected of being one " (Lives of the Lindsays). magnificent... | |
| 1893 - 792 страници
...Her taste led her to hunt with her brothers, to wrestle with the stable-boy^, and to saw wood wiih the carpenter. She worked well in iron, could .shoe...made excellent trunks, played well on the fiddle, sang a man's song in a bass voice, and was by many people suspected of being one.' VOL. ix. — No.... | |
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