 The grand parlour was the sanctum sanctorum, where the passion for cleaning was indulged without control. In this sacred apartment no one was permitted to enter, excepting the mistress and her confidential maid, who visited it once a week; for the purpose...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 5541820Full view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 490 pages
...upon to be a mere sport of fancy, or what is a worse, a wilful misrepresentation. The grand parlor was the sanctum sanctorum, where the passion for cleaning was indulged without control. In this sacred apartment no one was permitted to enter, excepting the mistress and her confidential... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 476 pages
...that an historian of the day gravely tells us, that many of his townswomen grew to have webbed fingers like unto a duck ; and some of them, he had little...look upon to be a mere sport of fancy, or what is a worse, a wilful misrepresentation. The grand parlor was the sanctum sanctorum, where the passion... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1851 - 482 pages
...than an historian of the day gravely tells us, that many of his townswomen grew to have webbed fingers like unto a duck ; and some of them, he had little...mermaids — but this I look upon to be a mere sport ot fancy, or what is worse, a wilful misrep. resentation. " The grand parlor was the sanctum sanctorum,... | |
 | J. C. Gilleland - 1851 - 478 pages
...than an historian of the day gravely tells us, that many of his townswomen grew to have webbed fingers like unto a duck; and some of them, he had little...examined into would be found to have the tails of mermaids—but this I look upon to be a mere sport of fancy, or what is worse, a wilful misrepresentation.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1854 - 472 pages
...that an historian of the day gravely tells us, that many of his townswomen grew to have webbed fingers like unto a duck ; and some of them, he had little...look upon to be a mere sport of fancy, or what is a worse, a wilful misrepresentation. The grand parlor was the sanctum sanctorum, where the passion... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 450 pages
...that an historian of the day gravely tells us, that many of his townswomen grew to have webbed fingers like unto a duck ; and some of them, he had little...what is worse, a wilful misrepresentation. The grand parlor was the sanctum sanctorum, where the passion for cleaning was indulged without control. In this... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 588 pages
...that a historian of the day gravely tells us that many of his townswomen grew to have webbed nngers, like unto a duck ; and some of them, he had little...of mermaids — but this I look upon to be a mere matter of fancy, or, what is worse, Ð willful misrepresentation. In those happy flays a well-regulated... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 pages
...the day gravely tells us that many of his townswomen grew to have webbed fingers like unto a duck : but this I look upon to be a mere sport of fancy, or, what is worse, a wilful misrepresentation. 4. The grand parlor was the sanctum sanctorum, where the passion for cleaning was indulged without... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1859 - 422 pages
...day gravely tells us, that many of his own townswomen grew to have webbed fingers like unto a duck; but this I look upon to be a mere sport of fancy, or what is worse, a willful misrepresentation. 6. The grand parlor was the place where the passion for cleaning was indulged... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 478 pages
...little doubt, could the matter be examined into, would be found to have the tails of mermaids—but this I look upon to be a mere sport of fancy, or what is a worse, a wilful misrepresentation. The grand parlor was the sanctum sanctorum, where tha passion... | |
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