 Hard by the farmhouse was a vast barn, that might have served for a church; every window and crevice of which seemed bursting forth with the treasures of the farm; the flail was busily resounding within it from morning to night ; swallows and martins...  Washington Irving - Seite 229von Charles Dudley Warner - 1881 - 304 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 160 Seiten
...formed of a barrel, and then stole sparkling away through the grass to a neighboring brook that babbled along among alders and dwarf willows. Hard by the...flail was busily resounding within it from morning to night ; swallows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves ; and rows of pigeons — some with... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1892 - 362 Seiten
...of a barrel, and then stole sparkling away through the grass, to a neighboring brook, that babbled along among alders and dwarf willows. Hard by the...flail was busily resounding within it from morning to night ; swallows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves ; and rows of pigeons, some with... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1893 - 394 Seiten
...of a barrel, and then stole sparkling away through the grass, to a neighboring brook, that babbled along among alders and dwarf willows. Hard by the...flail was busily resounding within it from morning to night; swallows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves; the rows of pigeons, some with one... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1893 - 318 Seiten
...then stole sparkling away through the grass, to a neighbouring brook, that babbled along among elders and dwarf willows. Hard by the farm-house was a vast...flail was busily resounding within it from morning to night ; swallows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves ; and rows of pigeons, some with... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 234 Seiten
...of a barrel ; and then stole sparkling away through the grass, to a neighboring brook, that babbled along among alders and dwarf willows. Hard by the...flail was busily resounding within it from morning to night ; swallows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves ; and rows of pigeons, some with... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1894 - 462 Seiten
...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 within it from morning to night; swallows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves ; and rows of pigeons, some with... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 396 Seiten
...and ankle in the country round. Ichabod Crane had a soft and foolish heart toward the sex ; and it is not to be wondered at, that so tempting a morsel...flail was busily resounding within it from morning to night; swallows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves; and rows of pigeons, some with one... | |
 | Kate Stephens, Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 Seiten
...withal a provokingly short petticoat, to display the prettiest foot and ankle in the country round. visited her in her paternal mansion. Old Baltus Van...flail was busily resounding within it from morning to night; swallows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves; and rows of pigeons, some with one... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 482 Seiten
...boundaries of his own farm ; but within those every thing was snug, happy, and well-conditioned. lie was satisfied with his wealth, but not proud of it...flail was busily resounding within it from morning to night ; swallows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves ; and rows of pigeons, some with... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 454 Seiten
...description by representing the objects described at the moment of their greatest activity. For example: — "Hard by the farmhouse was a vast barn, that might...with the treasures of the farm ; the flail was busily 1 Josiah Royce: Some Recent Studies on Ideas of Motion. Science, [New York] Nov. 30, 1883, p. 716.... | |
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