 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 Seiten
...He would never refuse to assist a neighbor even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all country frolics for husking Indian corn, or building...to attend to anybody's business but his own ; but as to doing family duty, and keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible. In fact, he declared... | |
 | Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 Seiten
...He would never refuse to assist a neighbor even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all country frolics for husking Indian corn, or building...ready to attend to anybody's business but his own; but as to doing family duty, and keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible. In fact, he declared... | |
 | Washington Irving, Arthur Rackham, Pat Stewart - 1983 - 52 Seiten
...neighbor even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all country frolics for husking Indian-corn, or building stone fences; the women of the village,...ready to attend to anybody's business but his own; but as to doing family duty, and keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible. In fact, he declared... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1983 - 1198 Seiten
...refuse to assist a neighbour even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all country frolicks for husking Indian corn, or building stone fences;...for them — in a word Rip was ready to attend to any body's business but his own; but as to doing family duty, and keeping his farm in order, he found... | |
 | Jane Roland Martin - 1995 - 252 Seiten
...explicitly portray a man in flight from domesticity, but Irving made Rip's trajectory crystal clear: In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own; but as to doing family duty, and keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible ... If left to himself,... | |
 | Washington Irving, Thea Kliros - 1995 - 84 Seiten
...He would never refuse to assist a neighbour even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all country frolics for husking Indian corn, or building...for them. — In a word, Rip was ready to attend to any body's business but his own; but as to doing family duty, and keeping his farm in order, he found... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1998 - 840 Seiten
...He would never refuse to assist a neighbor even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all country frolics for husking Indian corn, or building...ready to attend to anybody's business but his own; but as to doing family duty, and keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible. he had some out-door... | |
 | M. J. Turner - 1998 - 340 Seiten
...neighbour even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all country frolics for husking Indian com, or building stone fences; the women of the village,...ready to attend to anybody's business but his own; but as to doing family duty, and keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible, by Washington Irving... | |
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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 less obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business... 
