 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1897 - 330 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 much astray. True it... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 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...side which, in truth, belongs to a henpecked husband. points of spirit befitting an honorable dog, he was as courageous an animal as ever scoured the woods... | |
 | Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 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 only side which, in truth, belongs to a hen-pecked husband. Rip's sole domestic adherent... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1983 - 1198 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... | |
 | Washington Irving, Arthur Rackham, Pat Stewart - 1983 - 52 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... | |
 | Washington Irving, Thea Kliros - 1995 - 84 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...who was as much henpecked as his master; for Dame 1. galligaskins] very loose trousers commonly worn in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Van... | |
 | Thomas R. Cole - 1992 - 304 Seiten
...would rather "starve on a penny than work for a pound." To escape Dame Van Winkle, Rip often withdraws to the "outside of the house — the only side which, in truth, belongs to a henpecked husband." When Rip returns to his town on the Hudson River, he is amazed and saddened to find "himself thus alone... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1998 - 840 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 only side which, in truth, belongs to a hen-pecked husband. Rip's sole domestic adherent... | |
 | John Phillips - 2002 - 648 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... | |
 | Brian Thomsen - 2002 - 612 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... | |
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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,... 
