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. The Edinburgh Monthly Review - Page 2461821Full view - About this book
| Ernest Clark Hartwell - 1921 - 450 lehte
...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... | |
| Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1922 - 530 lehte
...and Jonah appeared most manfully bouncing out of the whale, like Harlequin through a barrel of fire. 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 abodes, and took leave... | |
| Hamilton James Eckenrode - 1922 - 392 lehte
...sugar was laid beside each cup, and the company alternately nibbled and sipped with great decorum. The parties broke up without noise and without confusion....is to say, by the vehicles nature had provided them with, excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended... | |
| Hamilton James Eckenrode - 1922 - 392 lehte
...vehicles nature had provided them with, excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to...respective abodes and took leave of them with a hearty kiss. The women's hair was pomatumed back from their foreheads with a candle, and covered with a little... | |
| Edwin Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - 1922 - 648 lehte
...vehicles Nature had 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 of so them with a hearty smack at the door ; which, as it was an established piece of etiquette, done... | |
| Isobel Davidson - 1925 - 512 lehte
...Harlequin through a barrel of fire. The parties broke up without noise and without confusion. Guests were carried home by their own carriages, that is...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... | |
| Henry Seidel Canby, John Baker Opdycke - 1925 - 638 lehte
...Jonah appeared most manfully leaping from the whale's mouth, like Harlequin through a barrel of fire. The parties broke up without noise and without confusion....to say, by the vehicles nature had provided them, except such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. LA FITTE'S TREASURE HUNT From THE BOY scours... | |
| William Dodge Lewis, James Fleming Hosic - 1927 - 552 lehte
...and Jonah appeared most manfully bouncing out of the whale, like Harlequin through a barrel of fire. The parties broke up without noise and without confusion. They were carried home by their carriages — that is to say, by the vehicles nature had provided them — excepting such of the wealthy... | |
| Washington Irving - 1881 - 910 lehte
...and Jonah appeared most manfully bouncing out of the whale, like Harlequin through a barrel of fire. 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 abodes, and took leave... | |
| 1821 - 774 lehte
...conspicuously on his gibbet ; and Jonah appeared most manfully bouncing out of the whale, &c- &c. 1 he parties broke up without noise and without confusion....home by their own carriages, that is to say, by the velucles nature had provided them, excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a waggon.... | |
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