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| Washington Irving - 1882 - 558 str.
...council he presided with great state and solemnity. He sat in a huge chair of solid oak, hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague, fabricated by an experienced timmerman of Amsterdam, and curiously carved GOVERNOR VAN TWILLER. 163 about the arms and feet, into exact imitations of gigantic eagle's claws.... | |
| William Swinton - 1883 - 504 str.
...chair of solid oak, hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague, fabricated by an experienced timberman of Amsterdam, and curiously carved about the arms and feet into exact imitations of gigantic eagles' claws. Instead of a scepter he swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmine and amber,... | |
| William Swinton - 1883 - 492 str.
...chair of solid oak, hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague, fabricated by an experienced timberman of Amsterdam, and curiously carved about the arms and feet into exact imitations of gigantic eagles' claMrs. Instead of a scepter he swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmine and amber,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1884 - 472 str.
...council he presided with great sfcite and solemnity. He sat in a huge chair of solid oak, hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague, fabricated by an experienced...the arms and feet, into exact imitations of gigantic eagles' claws. Instead of a sceptre, he swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmin and amber,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1888 - 542 str.
...Bterdam, and curiously carved &bout the arms and feet, into exact imi.atious of gigantic eagle's daws. Instead of a sceptre, he swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasuxin and amber which had been presented to a stadtholder of Holland at the cc«ncJiision cf a treaty... | |
| Albert H. Smyth - 1889 - 324 str.
...chair of solid oak, hewn in the celebrated forest of The Hague, fabricated by an experienced timberman of Amsterdam, and curiously carved about the arms...sceptre he swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmine and amber, which had been presented to a stadtholder of Holland at the conclusion of a treaty... | |
| Sherman Williams - 1898 - 344 str.
...chair of solid oak, hewn in the celebrated forest of The Hague, fabricated by an experienced timberman of Amsterdam and curiously carved about the arms and feet into exact imitation of gigantic eagles' claws. Instead of a scepter he swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with... | |
| Washington Irving - 1901 - 142 str.
...sat in a huge chair of solid oak, A SCENE AT THE HAGUE. hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague, curiously carved about the arms and feet, into exact imitations of gigantic eagles' claws. Instead of a sceptre he swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmin and amber, which... | |
| Lewis Henry Jones - 1903 - 504 str.
...council he presided with great state and solemnity. 20 He sat in a huge chair of solid oak, hewn in the celebrated forest of The Hague, fabricated by an experienced...imitations of gigantic eagle's claws. Instead of a scepter he swayed a long Turkish pipe wrought 25 with jasmine and amber. In this stately chair would... | |
| Thomas Lansing Masson, Thomas L. Masson - 1903 - 216 str.
...council he presided with great state and solemnity. He sat in a huge chair of solid oak, hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague, fabricated by an experienced...imitations of gigantic eagle's claws. Instead of a scepter, he swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmine and amber, which had been presented to... | |
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