 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 242 Seiten
...was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country. Everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were...his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management acre by acre, until there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian corn and potatoes,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 422 Seiten
...was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country ; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong in spite of him. His fences were...his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre by acre, until there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian corn and potatoes,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1893 - 318 Seiten
...was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country ; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were...his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre by acre, until there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian corn and potatoes,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 234 Seiten
...was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country ; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were...his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre by acre, until there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian corn and potatoes,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 422 Seiten
...was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country ; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were...his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre by acre, until there was little more left than a mere patch, of Indian corn and potatoes,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1894 - 462 Seiten
...was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country ; every thing about it went wrong, and would go wrong in spite of him. His fences were...weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than any where else ; the rain always made a point of setting injustas he had someout-door work to do ;... | |
 | Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1894 - 150 Seiten
...little piece of ground in the whole country ; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong, so in spite of him. His fences were continually falling...; his cow would either go astray, or get among the cahbages ; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than anywhere else ; the rain always made... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 280 Seiten
...was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were continually falling to pieces ; 5 his cow would either go astray, or get among the cabbages; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 396 Seiten
...was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were...his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre by acre, until there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian corn and potatoes,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 482 Seiten
...was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country ; every thing about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were...his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre by acre, until there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian corn and potatoes,... | |
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... else; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some out-door work to do; so that though his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre by acre, until there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian corn... 
