 ... 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 Beauties of Washington Irving - Seite 147von Washington Irving - 1835 - 270 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Emogene Sanford Simons - 1906 - 218 Seiten
...maxim, "spare the rod and spoil the child." Ichabod Crane's scholars certainly were not spoiled. . . . When school hours were over, he was even 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,... | |
 | 1907 - 386 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | 1907 - 374 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1907 - 328 Seiten
...inflicting a double portion on some little, tough, 25 wrong-headed, broad-skirted Dutch urchin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the...parents; and he never inflicted a chastisement without 1 A funnel-like trap for eels. following it by the assurance, so consolatory to the smarting urchin,... | |
 | Carolyn M. Robbins, Robert Keable Row - 1907 - 328 Seiten
...the golden maxim, "spare the rod and spoil the child," — Ichabod Crane's scholars were not spoiled. When school hours were over, he was even 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 Swain Thomas, Will David Howe - 1908 - 536 Seiten
...begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits along with the old clothes of his father. 6. When school hours were over, he was even the companion and playmate of the larger boys; and on holiday afternoons he would convey some of the smaller ones home, who happened to have pretty sisters... | |
 | 1910 - 444 Seiten
...inflicting a double portion on some little tough, wrong headed, broadskirted Dutch urchin, who suiked 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,... | |
 | William Patten - 1910 - 438 Seiten
...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 holy day afternoons would convoy some of the smaller ones home, who happened to have pretty sisters,... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1910 - 424 Seiten
...inflicting a double portion on some little 25 tough, wrong-headed, broad-skirted Dutch urchin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the...consolatory to the smarting urchin, that "he would 30 remember it, and thank him for it the longest day he had to live." When school hours were over,... | |
 | 1910 - 408 Seiten
...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...inflicted a chastisement without following it by the 25 assurance so consolatory to the smarting urchin, that "he would remember it and thank him for it... | |
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