 The women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and to do such little odd jobs as their less obliging husbands would not do for them ; — in a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own; but as to doing family...  The Works of Washington Irving. - Seite 471861Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 465 Seiten
...at all country frolics for husking Indian corn, or building stone-fences ; the women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and...obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own ; but as to doing family duty, and keeping... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, Kate Stephens, George Henry Browne - 1895
...at all country frolics for husking Indian corn or building stone fences. The women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and...obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own; but as to doing family duty, and keeping... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1896 - 386 Seiten
...and to do such little odd jobs as their less obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his...family duty, and keeping his farm in order, he found it'impossible. In fact, he declared it was of no use to work on his farm; it was the most pestilent... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 240 Seiten
...at all country frolics for husking Indian corn or building 5 stone fences. The women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and...obliging husbands would not do for them, — in a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own; but as to doing family duty, and 10 keeping... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 498 Seiten
...at all country frolics for husking Indian corn or building stone fences. The women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and...obliging husbands would not do for them ; — in a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own ; but as to doing family duty, and keeping... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 140 Seiten
...at all country frolics for husking Indian corn, or building stone fences. The women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and...obliging husbands would not do for them ; — in a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own ; but as to doing family duty, and keeping... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1897 - 238 Seiten
...at all country frolics, for husking Indian corn, or building stone fences; the women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and...obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own; but as to doing family duty, and keeping... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1897
...at all country frolics for husking Indian corn or building 5 stone fences. The women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and...obliging husbands would not do for them, — in a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own; but as to doing family duty, and 10 keeping... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 35 Seiten
...building stone fences. The women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and do such little odd jobs as their less obliging husbands would not do for them;— in a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own; but as to doing family duty, and keeping... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1897 - 224 Seiten
...at all country frolics for husking Indian corn or building stone fences ; the women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands and to do such little odd jobs as their lessobliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business... | |
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