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" ... by a string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth — an ingenious expedient, which is still kept up by some families in Albany; but which prevails without exception in Communipaw, Bergen, Flat-Bush, and all our uncontaminated... "
A History of New York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the ... - Page 213
by Washington Irving - 1821
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 5-6

Robert Chambers - 1880 - 826 pages
...Communlpaw, Bergen, Flat-Bush, and all our uucuiiiaminatcd Dutch villages. At these primitive tea-portios the utmost propriety and dignity of deportment prevailed....— no gambling of old ladies, nor hoyden chattering :ni' i romping of young ones — no self-satisfied strutting** of wealthy gentlemen witfi their brains...
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The Works of Washington Irving...

Washington Irving - 1881 - 916 pages
...without exception in Communipaw, Bergen, i'latbush, and all cur uncontamiiiatcd Dutch villages. At thi-se primitive tea-parties the utmost propriety and dignity...No flirting nor coquetting — no gambling of old laidies nor hoyden chattering and romping of young ones — no self-satisfied struttings of wealthy...
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Irving's Works: A history of New York

Washington Irving - 1882 - 558 pages
...be swung from mouth to mouth, — an ingenious expedient, which is still kept up by some families in Albany, but which prevails without exception in Communipaw, Bergen, Flatbush, and all our uncohtaminated Dutch villages. At these primitive tea-parties the utmost propriety and dignity of deportment...
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Development of English Literature and Language, Volume 2

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 pages
...be swung from mouth to mouth, — an ingenious expedient, which is still kept up by some families in Albany, but which prevails, without exception, in...Flat-Bush, and all our uncontaminated Dutch villages.' How easy, simple, and sprightly, as of one who catches his tints direct from nature, always fresh and...
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Higher Lessons in English: A Work on English Grammar and Composition : in ...

Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - 1883 - 300 pages
...be swung from mouth to mouth — an ingenious expedient, which is still kept up by some families in Albany, but which prevails without exception in Communipa'w,...Flatbush, and all our uncontaminated Dutch villages. — COMPOSITION. LESSOU 446. SUMMARY OF RULES FOR CAPITAL LETTERS AND PUNCTUATION. CAPITAL LETTEBS,...
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The Beauties of Washington Irving ...

Washington Irving - 1884 - 472 pages
...be swung from mouth to mouth — an ingenious expedient, which is still kept up by some families in Albany; but which prevails without exception in Communipaw,...uncontaminated Dutch villages. At these primitive tea parties the utmost propriety and dignity of deportment prevailed. No flirting nor coquetting —...
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A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the ...

Washington Irving - 1888 - 542 pages
...swung from moutli to mouth, — an ingenious expedient, which is still kept up by some families in Albany, but which prevails without exception in Communipaw,...primitive tea-parties the utmost propriety and dignity ot deportment prevailed. No flirting nor coquetting, — no gambling of old ladies, nor hoyden chattering...
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Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - 1897 - 644 pages
...could be swung from mouth to mouth ; an ingenious expedient which is still kept up by some families in Albany, but which prevails without exception in Communipaw,...uncontaminated Dutch villages. At these primitive tea parties the utmost propriety and dignity of deportment prevailed. No flirting nor coquetting, no...
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The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from ..., Volume 15

Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 pages
...be swung from mouth to mouth — an ingenious expedient which is still kept up by some families in Albany ; but which prevails without exception in Communipaw,...uncontaminated Dutch villages. At these primitive tea parties the utmost propriety and dignity of deportment prevailed. No flirting nor coquetting —...
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Choice Literature: ... for Grammar Grades, Book 1

Sherman Williams - 1898 - 344 pages
...be swung from month to mouth — an ingenious expedient, which is still kept up by some families in Albany, but which prevails, without exception, in...uncontaminated Dutch villages. At these primitive tea parties the utmost propriety and dignity of deportment prevailed. No flirting nor coquetting ;...
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