 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1894 - 462 страници
...might have served for a church ; every window and crevice of which seemed bursting forth with the 2G9 treasures of the farm ; the flail was busily resounding...ducks; regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farmyard, and guinea-fowls fretting about it like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish, discontented... | |
 | George Prentiss Butler - 1894 - 284 страници
...wings or buried in their bosoms ; and others swelling, and cooing, and bowing about their dames r— were enjoying the sunshine on the roof. Sleek, unwieldy...ducks. Regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farmyard, and guinea fowls fretting about it like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish, discontented... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 234 страници
...sunshine on the roof. Sleek, unwieldy porkers were grunting in the repose and abundance of their pens ; whence sallied forth, now and then, troops of sucking...ducks ; regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farmyard, and guinea fowls fretting about it, like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish discontented... | |
 | Kate Stephens, Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 страници
...of a barrel; and then stole sparkling away through the grass, to a neighboring brook, that bubbled along among alders and dwarf willows. Hard by the...ducks; regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farm-yard, and guinea-fowls fretting about it like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish, discontented... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 482 страници
...sunshine on the roof. Sleek unwieldy porkers were grunting in the repose and abundance of their pens ; whence sallied forth, now and then, troops of sucking...ducks ; regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farmyard, and guinea fowls fretting about it, like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish discontented... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 464 страници
...roof. Sleek unwieldy porkers were grunting in the repose and abundance of their pens ; whence sal lied forth, now and then, troops of sucking pigs, as if...ducks ; regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farm-yard, and guinea fowls fretting about it, like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish discontented... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 238 страници
...sunshine on the roof. Sleek unwieldy porkers were grunting in the repose and abundance of their pens, whence sallied forth, now and then, troops of sucking...ducks ; regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farmyard, and guinea-fowls fretting about it, like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish, discontented... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - 1896 - 412 страници
...Sleek, unwieldy porkers were grunting in the repose and abundance of their pens. 9. From these pens sallied forth, now and then, troops of sucking pigs, as if to snuff the air. 10. A stately squadron of snowy geese was riding in an adjoining pond, convoying whole fleets of ducks.... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - 1896 - 412 страници
...Sleek, unwieldy porkers were grunting in the repose and abundance of their pens. 9. From these pens sallied forth, now and then, troops of sucking pigs, as if to snuff the air. 10. A stately squadron of snowy geese was riding in an adjoining pond, convoying whole fleets of ducks.... | |
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... the air. A stately squadron of snowy geese were riding in an adjoining pond, convoying whole fleets of ducks ; regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farmyard, and guinea fowls fretting about it like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish,... 
