 | Penny readings - 1867 - 280 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...rained on, with wreaths of vapor rising from her reeking hide. A walleyed horse, tired of the loneliness of his stable, was poking his spectral head out of...something, every now and then, between a bark and a yelp. 5. An uncomely servant-girl tramped backward and forward through the yard in pattens, looking as sulky... | |
 | Wayne E. Burton - Wit and humor - 1867 - 674 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, with the rain dripping on it from the eaves; nn unhappy cur, chained to a dog-house hard by, uttered something every now and then, between a bark... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1869 - 264 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... | |
 | Tom Hood - Wit and humor - 1869 - 292 pages
...with wreaths of 'apour 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,...the rain dripping on it from the eaves ; an unhappy CUT, chained to a dog-house hard by, uttered every now and then between a bark and a yelp ; a drab... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pages
...rained on, with wreaths of vapor rising from her reeking hide. A walleyed horse, tired of the loneliness of his stable, was poking his spectral head out of...something, every now and then, between a bark and a yelp. 5. An uncomely servant-girl tramped backward and forward through the yard in pattens, looking as sulky... | |
 | Charles Adams - 1870 - 322 pages
...with wreaths of vapor 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, with the rain dropping on it from the eaves. An unhappy cur, chained to a dog-house hard by, uttered something every... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1871 - 574 pages
...with wreaths of vapor 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... | |
 | Frederick A. Laing - English language - 1873 - 262 pages
...with wreaths of vapour rising from er 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... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 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, with the rain dripping on it from the caves ; an unhappy cur, chained to a dog-house hard by, uttered every now and then between a bark and... | |
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... 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, with the rain dripping on it from the eaves; an unhappy cur, chained to a dog-house hard by, uttered something, every... 
