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Washington Irving - Page 230
by Charles Dudley Warner - 1881 - 304 pages
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Anna Randall Diehl - Readers - 1883 - 422 pages
...cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of sauce. In the porkers might be carved out the future sleek side of bacon and juicy relishing ham; each turkey daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wings, and, peradventure, a necklace of...
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The Beauties of Washington Irving ...

Washington Irving - 1884 - 472 pages
...ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek...; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, withits gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savoury sausages ; and even bright...
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The American Library of Art, Literature and Song, Volume 1

Literature - 1885 - 544 pages
...fretting about it, like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish discontented cry. Before the barn-door strutted the gallant cock, that pattern of a husband,...necklace of savory sausages ; and even bright Chanticleer hi mself lay sprawling on his back in a side-dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter...
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The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent

Washington Irving - Americans - 1885 - 398 pages
...dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw can-eel out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy relishing...gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savoury sausages ; and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side-dish, with...
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A Hand-book of English Literature: Intended for the Use of High Schools, as ...

Francis Henry Underwood - American literature - 1889 - 702 pages
...ducks pairing cosily in dishes like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy, relishing ham ; not a It:rkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace...
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Essays from The Sketch Book

Washington Irving - American essays - 1891 - 276 pages
...ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent com potency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek...chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which bis chivalrous spirit disdained to...
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Rip Van Winkle: And Other American Essays from The Sketch-book

Washington Irving - 1891 - 140 pages
...ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek...chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gentn. [pseud.]

Washington Irving - 1892 - 422 pages
...ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek...Chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back in a side-disli, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to...
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Ten Selections from the Sketch-book

Washington Irving - American essays - 1892 - 170 pages
...ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek...peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages; and even bright chanticleer2 himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side-dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving...
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Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving - Avarice - 1893 - 318 pages
...ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek...gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savoury sausages ; and even bright chanti' At the foot of which bubbled up a springof the softest an.i...
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