 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 pages
...thousand tricks on him with impunity; and not a dog would bark at him throughout the neighbourhood. The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour. It could not be for the want of assiduity or perseverance; for he would sit on a wet rock,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 422 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 - 1892 - 170 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...sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's1 lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1893 - 318 pages
...thousand tricks on him with impunity ; and not a dog would bark at him throughout the neighbourhood. want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as lonoO and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all ' I-'or he would sit on a i1<et rock, l1'iti1 a rod... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 426 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. Ho would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1894 - 462 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 fowlingpiece on his shoulder, for hours together, trudging... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 234 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 - 1894 - 280 pages
...The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance;...with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, is and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He... | |
 | W. P. F. Ljunggren - 1893 - 178 pages
...by fj'tn; sometimes if is used in the same meaning as though. He would sit on a wet rock — — — and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. (Irving, Sk. b. 20). Nor can I see it in an unamiable light, even though... | |
 | Kate Stephens, Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 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 fowlingpiece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging... | |
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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. 
