 ... worn out by the very precautions taken for its preservation. The whole house was constantly in a state of inundation, under the discipline of mops and brooms and scrubbingbrushes; and the good housewives of those days were a kind of amphibious animal,...  Blackwood's Magazine - Pagina 3141820Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Francis Rocheleau - 1909 - 430 pagina’s
...sometimes in that of a lion's head — and daily burnished with such religious zeal that it was often worn out by the very precautions taken for its preservation....inundation, under the discipline of mops and brooms and scrubbing-brushes; and the good housewives of those days were a kind of amphibious animal, delighting... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1909 - 336 pagina’s
...occasion. It was ornamented and was daily burnished with such religious zeal, that it was ofttimes worn out by the very precautions taken for its preservation....inundation, under the discipline of mops and brooms and scrubbing-brushes ; and the good housewives of those days were 5 a kind of amphibious animal, delighting... | |
 | Kate Forrest Oswell, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1912 - 618 pagina’s
...precautions taken for its preservation. GO The whole house was constantly in a state of inundation, 3 under the discipline of mops and brooms and scrubbing...housewives of those days were a kind of amphibious 4 animal, delighting exceedingly to be dabbling in water, — 65 insomuch that an historian of the... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 pagina’s
...daily burnished with such religious zeal that it was often worn out by the very precautions taken 10 for its preservation. The whole house was constantly...of amphibious animal, delighting exceedingly to be 15 dabbling in water, — insomuch that an historian of the day gravely tells us that many of his townswomen... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 pagina’s
...daily burnished with such religious zeal that it was often worn out by the very precautions taken 10 for its preservation. The whole house was constantly...of amphibious animal, delighting exceedingly to be is dabbling in water, — insomuch that an historian of the day gravely tells us that many of his townswomen... | |
 | Hamilton James Eckenrode - 1922 - 392 pagina’s
...ornamented with a gorgeous brass knocker, curiously wrought, sometimes in the device of a dog or lion. The whole house was constantly in a state of inundation under the discipline of mops and brooms and scrubbing-brushes : the housewives of those days were a sort of amphibious animal delighting in dabbling... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - 1922 - 648 pagina’s
...constantly in a state of inundation under the discipline of mops and brooms and scrubbing-brushes; and the good housewives of those days were a kind of amphibious animal, delight- 60 ing exceedingly to be dabbling in water, insomuch that an historian of the day gravely... | |
 | Isobel Davidson - 1925 - 512 pagina’s
...such great occasion. It was ornamented with a gorgeous brass knocker, curiously wrought, sometimes in the device of a dog, and sometimes of a lion's head,...inundation, under the discipline of mops and brooms and scrubbingbrushes; and the good housewives of those days were a kind of amphibious animal, delighting... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 910 pagina’s
...sometimes of a lion's head, and was daily burnished with such religious zeal, that it was ofttimes worn out by the very precautions taken for its preservation....housewives of those days were a kind of amphibious animal, delight/ ing exceedingly to be dabbling in water — insomuch that an historian of the day gravely... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1851 - 1018 pagina’s
...on marriages, funerals, NewTear's day, the festival of St. Nicholas, or some «nch great occasion. The whole house was constantly in a state of inundation, under the discipline of mops and brooms and scrubbing-brushes; and the good housewives of that day were like amphibious animals, delighting exceedingly... | |
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