 | Ella Marie Powers, Thomas Minard Balliet - 1902 - 328 Seiten
...bosoms, and others cooing and bowing about their dames — were enjoying the sunshine on the roof. A stately squadron of snowy geese were riding in an...ducks; regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farmyard, and guinea fowls fretting about it, like illtempered housewives, with their peevish, discontented... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1903 - 544 Seiten
...the foot of which bubbled up a spring of the softest and sweetest water, in a little well, formed of a barrel ; and then stole sparkling away through the...ducks ; regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farmyard, and guinea-fowls fretting about it like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish, discontented... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1903 - 814 Seiten
...sunshine on the roof. Sleek, unwieldy porkers were grunting in the repose and abundance of their pens, whence sallied forth, now and then, troops of sucking...ducks ; regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farm-yard, and guinea-fowls fretting about it, like illtempered housewives, with their peevish, discontented... | |
 | Alice B. Macdonald - 1911 - 630 Seiten
...grunting in the repose and abundance of their pens, from whence sallied forth, now and then, groups of sucking pigs, as if to snuff the air. A stately...ducks ; regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farm-yard, and guinea-fowls fretting about it like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish discontented... | |
 | Larkin Dunton, Augustus Hill Kelley - 1911 - 356 Seiten
...sunshine on the roof. Sleek, unwieldy porkers were grunting in the repose and abundance of their pens; whence sallied forth, now and then, troops of sucking...to snuff the air. A stately squadron of snowy geese was riding in an adjoining pond, convoying whole fleets of ducks; regiments of turkeys were gobbling... | |
 | 1912 - 414 Seiten
...sunshine on the roof. Sleek unwieldy porkers were grunting in the repose and abundance of their pens, whence sallied forth, now and then, troops of sucking...ducks; regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farmyard, and guinea fowls fretting about it, like illtempered housewives, with their peevish, discontented... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1912 - 356 Seiten
...sunshine on the roof. Sleek, unwieldy porkers were grunting in the repose and abundance of their pens, whence sallied forth, now and then, troops of sucking...ducks; regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farmyard, and guinea fowls fretting about it, like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish, discontented... | |
 | Alma Blount, Clark Sutherland Northup - 1912 - 354 Seiten
...sunshine on the roof. Sleek, unwieldy porkers were grunting in the repose and abundance of their pens; whence sallied forth, now and then, troops of sucking...ducks; regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farm-yard, and guineafowls fretting about it, like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish discontented... | |
 | Ada Van Stone Harris - 1912 - 392 Seiten
...schoolmaster is generally a man of some importance in the female circle of a rural neighborhood. 3. A stately squadron of snowy geese were riding in an adjoining pond, convoying whole fleets of ducks. 4. It was one of those spacious farmhouses with high ridged but lowly sloping roofs, built in the style... | |
 | Ada Van Stone Harris - 1912 - 386 Seiten
...related ideas but not having a predicate. Most phrases are used as parts of speech. In the sentence, " A stately squadron of snowy geese were riding in an adjoining pond," what adjective and what phrase are used to describe squadron? This phrase is called an adjective phrase.... | |
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... the air. A stately squadron of snowy geese were riding in an adjoining pond, convoying whole fleets of ducks ; regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farmyard, and guinea fowls fretting about it like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish,... 
