 ... monkey divertisements of smart young gentlemen, with no brains at all. On the contrary, the young ladies seated themselves demurely in their rush-bottomed chairs, and knit their own woollen stockings; nor ever opened their lips, excepting to say yah...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 2691820Full view - About this book
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - Readers - 1918 - 432 pages
...woollen stockings ; nor ever opened their lips, excepting to say, yah, Mynheer, or yah, yah, Vrouw, to any question that was asked them ; behaving in all things like decent, well-educated damsels. As to the gentlemen, 20 each of them tranquilly smoked his pipe, and seemed... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - Readers - 1918 - 432 pages
...woollen stockings; nor ever opened their lips, excepting to say, yah, Mynheer, or yah, yah, Vrouw, to any question that was asked them; behaving in all things like decent, well-educated damsels. As to the gentlemen, 20 each of them tranquilly smoked his pipe, and seemed... | |
 | Walter Lowrie Hervey, Melvin Hix - Readers - 1918 - 552 pages
...chairs, and knit their own woollen stockings; nor ever opened their lips, excepting to say yes or no, to any question that was asked them; behaving, in all things, like decent, well-educated damsels. As to the gentlemen, each of them tranquilly smoked his pipe, and seemed lost... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - Children's literature - 1922 - 530 pages
...own woollen stockings, nor ever opened their lips excepting to say Yah, Mynheer, or Yah ya, Vrouw, to any question that was asked them, behaving in all things like decent, well-educated damsels. As to the gentlemen, each of them tranquilly smoked his pipe and seemed lost... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - American literature - 1922 - 648 pages
...own woolen stockings; nor ever opened their lips excepting to say Yah, Mynheer, or Yah, ya, Vrouw, to any question that was asked them, behaving in all things like decent, welleducated damsels. As to the gentleso men, each of them tranquilly smoked his pipe and seemed lost... | |
 | Isobel Davidson - Reading (Elementary) - 1925 - 512 pages
...their own woolen stockings; nor ever opened their lips excepting to say yah Mynheer, or, yah ya Vrouw, to any question that was asked them; behaving in all things like decent, well-educated damsels. As to the gentlemen, each of them tranquilly smoked his pipe, and seemed lost... | |
 | Henry Seidel Canby, John Baker Opdycke - English language - 1925 - 638 pages
...their own woolen stockings; nor ever opened their lips, excepting to say yah, Mynheer, or yah, Vroww, to any question that was asked them; behaving in all things like decent, well-educated damsels. As to the gentlemen, each of them tranquilly smoked his pipe, and seemed lost... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (N.Y.) - 1927 - 572 pages
...own woollen stockings; nor ever opened their lips, excepting to say, yah Mynher, or yah, ya Vrouw, to any question that was asked them; behaving in all...contemplation of the blue and white tiles, with which the fire-places were decorated; wherein sundry passages of scripture, were piously pourtrayed — Tobit... | |
 | William Dodge Lewis, James Fleming Hosic - English language - 1927 - 552 pages
...own woollen stockings, nor even opened their lips excepting to say Yah, Mynheer, or Yah ya, Vrouw, to any question that was asked them, behaving in all things like decent, welleducated damsels. As to the gentlemen, each of them tranquilly smoked his pipe and seemed lost... | |
 | Washington Irving - Fiction - 1983 - 1198 pages
...their own woollen stockings; nor ever opened their lips, excepting to say yah Mynher, or yah, ya Vrouw, to any question that was asked them; behaving in all...contemplation of the blue and white tiles, with which the fire-places were decorated; wherein sundry passages of scripture, were piously pourtrayed — Tobit... | |
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