 The parties broke up without noise and without confusion. They were carried home by their own carriages; that is to say, by the vehicles Nature had provided them, excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 2691820Full view - About this book
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Literature - 1905 - 330 pages
...advantage; Haman swung conspicuously on his gibbet; and Jonah appeared most manfully bouncing out of the whale, like Harlequin through a barrel of fire. The...excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave... | |
 | Readers, American - 1905 - 474 pages
...with which the fireplaces were decorated, wherein sundry passages of Scripture were piously portrayed. The parties broke up without noise and without confusion....excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. WASHINGTON IRVING. Washington Irving, a genial and amiable writer, the first to win European... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1909 - 336 pages
...Jonah appeared most manfully bouncing out of the whale, like Harlequin through a barrel of fire. 5 The parties broke up without noise and without confusion....excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective 10 abodes, and took leave... | |
 | William Francis Rocheleau - Correspondence schools and courses - 1909 - 430 pages
...Vrouw, to any question that was asked them. The parties broke up without noise or confusion. The guests were carried home by their own carriages; that is...excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon." (1) Let the pupils study the selection, then give an oral reproduction of it in their own words.... | |
 | Charles H.Sylevester - 1909 - 594 pages
...advantage; Hainan swung conspicuously on his gibbet; and Jonah appeared most manfully bouncing out of the whale, like Harlequin through a barrel of fire. The...without confusion. They were carried home by their own carriages—that is to say, by the vehicles Nature had provided them—excepting such of the wealthy... | |
 | Readers - 1912 - 332 pages
...amusing conceits and monkey divertisements of smart young gentlemen with no brains at all. fusion. They were carried home by their own carriages; that...excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave... | |
 | Kate Forrest Oswell, Charles Benajah Gilbert - Readers - 1912 - 618 pages
...confusion. They were carried home by their own carriages, that is to say, by the vehicles nature had ieo provided them, excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave... | |
 | Walter Lowrie Hervey, Melvin Hix - Readers - 1918 - 552 pages
...with which the fireplaces were decorated; wherein sundry passages of Scripture were piously portrayed. The parties broke up without noise and without confusion....vehicles nature had provided them, excepting such which, as it was an established piece of etiquette, done in perfect simplicity and honesty of heart,... | |
 | Teaching - 1918 - 688 pages
...Vrouw, to any question that was asked them. The parties broke up without noise or confusion. The guests were carried home by their own carriages; that is...excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. (1) Let the pupils study the selection, then give an oral reproduction of it in their own words.... | |
 | Ernest Clark Hartwell - Readers - 1921 - 450 pages
...pockets nor amusing conceits and monkey divertisements of smart young gentlemen with no brains at all. 20 The parties broke up without noise and without confusion....excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. — Knickerbocker's History of New York. 1. Read some passages in which Irving pokes fun at... | |
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