| Washington Irving - American essays - 1835 - 284 pages
...rising from her reeking hide ; a wall-eyed horse, tired of the loneliness of the stable, was pokmg his spectral head out of a window, with the rain dripping...and then, between a bark and a yelp ; a drab of a kitchen wench tramped backwards and forwards through the yard in pattens, looking as sulky as the weather... | |
| B. Bowing - 1840 - 436 pages
...wreaths of vapour rising from her reeking hide ; a wall-eyed horse, tired of the loneliness of the stable, was poking his spectral head out of a window,...now and then between a bark and a yelp ; a drab of a kitchen wench tramped backwards and forwards through the yard in pattens, looking as sulky as the weather... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 622 pages
...with wreaths of vapour rising from her reeking hide. A wall-eyed horse, tired of the loneliness of the stable, was poking his spectral head out of a window,...now and then, between a bark and a yelp. A drab of a kitchen wench tramped backwards and forwards through the yard in pattens, looking &s sulky as the weather... | |
| Washington Irving - American fiction - 1845 - 412 pages
...wreaths of vapour rising from her reeking hide ; a wall-eyed horse, tired of the loneliness of the stable, was poking his spectral head out of a window,...unhappy cur, chained to a dog-house hard by, uttered every now and then, between a bark and a yelp ; a drab of a kitchen wench tramped backwards and forwards... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 754 pages
...with wreaths of vapour rising from her reeking hide. A wall-eyed horse, tired of the loneliness of the stable, was poking his spectral head out of a window,...now and then, between a bark and a yelp. A drab of a kitchen wench tramped backwards and forwards through the yard in pattens, looking as sulky as the weather... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - Periodicals - 1850 - 438 pages
...wreaths of vapour rising from her reeking hide ; a wall-eyed horse, tired of the loneliness of the stable, was poking his spectral head out of a window,...in pattens, looking as sulky as the weather itself; everything, in short, was comfortless and forlorn, excepting a crew of hardened ducks, assembled like... | |
| Washington Irving - 1849 - 496 pages
...with wreaths of vapor rising from her reeking hide ; a walleyed horse, tired of the loneliness of the stable, was poking his spectral head out of a window,...and then, between a bark and a yelp ; a drab of a kitchen wench tramped backwards and forwards through the yard in pattens, looking as sulky as the weather... | |
| Washington Irving - American fiction - 1849 - 502 pages
...with wreaths of vapor rising from her reeking hide; a walleyed horse, tired of the loneliness of the stable, was poking his spectral head out of a window,...and then, between a bark and a yelp ; a drab of a kitchen wench tramped backwards and forwards through the yard in pattens, looking as sulky as the weather... | |
| Washington Irving - Astoria (Or.) - 1849 - 508 pages
...with wreaths of vapor rising from her reeking hide; a walleyed horse, tired of the loneliness of the stable, was poking his spectral head out of a window,...by, uttered something every now and then, between n bark and a yelp; a drab of a kitchen wench tramped backwards and forwards through the yard in pattens,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1851 - 510 pages
...with wreaths of vapor rising from her reeking hide ; a walleyed horse, tired of the loneliness of the stable, was poking his spectral head out of a window,...and then, between a bark and a yelp ; a drab of a kitchen wench tramped backwards and forwards through the yard in pattens, looking as sulky as the weather... | |
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