 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...thousand tricks on him with impunity; and not a dog would bark at him throughout the neighborhood. The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable...day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1888 - 622 pages
...thousand tricks on him with impunity ; and not a dog would bark at him throughout the neighborhood. The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable...to all kinds of profitable labor. It could not be for want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889 - 524 pages
...bark at him throughout the neighborhood. The great error in Rip's composition was an insuper- io able aversion to all kinds of profitable labor. It could...day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single is nibble. He would carry a fowling piece on his shoulder for hours together,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1890 - 570 pages
...with impunity; and not a dog would bark at him throughout the neighborhood. The great error in Hip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds...day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging... | |
 | 1891 - 432 pages
...thousand tricks on him with impunity; and not a dog would bark at him throughout the neighborhood. The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable...day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging... | |
 | 1891 - 508 pages
...thousand tricks on him with impunity ; and not a dog would bark at him throughout the neighborhood. The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable...day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 276 pages
...thousand tricks on him with impunity ; and not a dog would bark at him throughout the neighborhood. The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable...day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 140 pages
...tricks on him with impunity ; and not a dog would bark at ,'!tim throughout the neighborhood. ^rj'The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable...day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1891 - 168 pages
...patience necessary to a fisherman is described by Washington Irving in his account of Rip Van Winkle who " would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy...day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble." trolls. This word is more generally applied to the bait used than to... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 278 pages
...thousand tricks on him with impunity ; and not a dog would bark at him throughout the neighborhood. The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable...labor. It could not be from the want of assiduity or persever.. ance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance,... | |
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It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. 
