 Indian corn or building stone fences; the women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands and to do such little odd jobs as their less obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business...  The Works of Washington Irving - Strana 45autor/autoři: Washington Irving - 1857Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Thomas Hood - 1869 - 260 str.
...their loss obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own; but as to doing family duty,...pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country ; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were continually... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm P. Oertel - 1870 - 244 str.
...their less obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own ; but as to doing family duty,...pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country ; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were continually... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 str.
...their less-obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own ; but as to doing family duty,...pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country: everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were continually falling... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 str.
...their less obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own ; but as to doing family duty,...use to work on his farm. It was the most pestilent piece of ground in the whole country. Everything about it went wrong, would go wrong in spite of him.... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 str.
...less obliging husbands would not do for them ; — in a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's er. Some sin, at last, beyond all measure Incurr'd the desperate displeasure Of h it was impossible. In fact, he declared it was no use to work on his farm ; it was the most pestilent... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 str.
...their less obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own; but, as to doing family duty,...keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible. 6. In fact, he declared it was of no use to work on his farm; it was the most pestilent little piece... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 str.
...frolies for hulking Indian corn or building stone fences. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody*, business but his own ; but as to doing family duty, and keeping his farm in order, he found i: impossible. His children were as ragged and wild as if they belonged to nobody. His son Rip. an... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1878 - 510 str.
...their less obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own ; but as to doing family duty,...pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country ; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong in spite of him. His fences were continually falling... | |
 | Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1878 - 186 str.
...their less obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own ; but as to doing family duty,...use to work on his farm ; it was the most pestilent 2 little piece of ground 1 Tartar's. See note on Tartar, p. 58. in the whole country ; everything about... | |
 | Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1878 - 206 str.
...would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own ; but u as to doing family duty, and keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible. 45. Termagant (or Tervagant, one of the supposed deities of the Saracens, who was represented in our... | |
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