 | Christian Brothers - 1884 - 483 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
...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
...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
...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
...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 - 504 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... | |
 | 1888 - 707 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. Rip's old domestic adherent was his dog Wolf, who was as much hen - pecked as his master; -for Dame Van Winkle... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888
...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 only side which, in truth, belongs to a henpecked husband. Rip's sole domestic adherent... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1888 - 707 Seiten
...to a hen-pecked husband. Rip's old domestic adherent was his dog Wolf, who was as much hen - pecked as his master; for Dame Van 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... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889
...shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said»i nothing. This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife, so that he was fain to draw off his...side which, in truth, belongs to a henpecked husband. Kip's sole domestic adherent was his dog Wolf, who was as much henpecked as his master ; for Dame Van... | |
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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,... 
