 | Gleanings - 1882 - 692 Seiten
...galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. Rip's sole domestic adherent was his dog Wolf, who...Winkle regarded them as companions in idleness, and even looked upon Wolf with an evil eye as the cause of his master's going so often astray. True it... | |
 | John Hamer - 1883 - 338 Seiten
...galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. Rip's sole domestic adherent was his dog Wolf, who...Winkle regarded them as companions in idleness, and even looked upon Wolf with an evil eye as the cause of his master's going so often astray. True it... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1884 - 472 Seiten
...shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife ; so that he was fain to draw off his...Winkle regarded them as companions in idleness, and even looked upon Wolf with an evil eye, as the cause of his master going so often astray. True it is,... | |
 | Christian Brothers - 1884 - 516 Seiten
...shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife; so that he was fain to draw off his...Winkle regarded them as companions in idleness, and even looked upon Wolf, with an evil eye, as the cause of his master's going so often astray. True it... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1884 - 988 Seiten
...his eyes, but said nothing. This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife, so that be was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the outside...Winkle regarded them as companions in idleness, and even looked upon Wolf with an evil eye, as the cause of his master's going so often astray. True it... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1885 - 440 Seiten
...shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife, so that he was fain to draw off his...Winkle regarded them as companions in idleness, and even looked upon Wolf with an evil eye as the cause of his master's going so often astray. True it... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 Seiten
...however, always provoked a fresh volley 1 from his wife, so that he was fain2 to draw off his forces,3 and take to the outside of the house, — the only...Winkle regarded them as companions in idleness, and even looked upon Wolf with an evil eye, as the cause of his master's going so often astray. True it... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1885 - 224 Seiten
...shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife ; so that he was fain to draw off his...which, in truth, belongs to a hen-pecked husband. antiquity chivalrous equipped obsequious weathercock eloquence colonist surmounted popularity aversion... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1886 - 522 Seiten
...shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife ; so that he was fain to draw off his...forces, and take to the outside of the house — the ordy side which, in truth, belongs to a hen-pecked husband. Rip's sole domestic adherent was his dog... | |
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... to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip had but one way of replying to all lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This, however,... 
