 | 1821 - 774 lehte
...convenient receptacles, where all good housewives carefully stored away such things as they wished to have at hand ; by which means they often came to be...current when I was a boy, that the lady of Wouter Van T wilier, once had occasion to empty her right pocket, in search of a wooden ladle, and the utensil... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 910 lehte
...convenient receptacles, where all good housewives carefully stored away such things as they wished to have at hand ; by which means they often came to be...a story current when I was a boy that the lady of Woutcr Van Twiller once had occasion to empty her right pocket in search of a wooden laclle, when the... | |
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Bible, and wore pockets — ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patchwork into many curious devices, and ostentatiously worn on the outside. These, in fact, were convenient receptacles, where all good housewives carefully stored away such... 
