| 1820 - 876 páginas
...unenlightened grandmothers. The front door was never opened except on marriages, funerals, new year's days, the festival of St Nicholas, or some such great...gorgeous brass knocker, curiously wrought, sometimes into the device of a dog, and sometimes of a lion's head, and was daily burnished with such religious... | |
| 1820 - 730 páginas
...unenlightened grandmothers. The front door was never opened except on marriages, funerals, new year's days, the festival of St Nicholas, or some such great...gorgeous brass knocker, curiously wrought, sometimes into the device of a dog, and sometimes of a lion's head, and was daily burnished with such religious... | |
| 1820 - 490 páginas
...grandmothers. The front door was never opened except on marriages, funerals, new year's days, the feali vi of St. Nicholas, or some such great occasion — It...gorgeous brass knocker, curiously wrought, sometimes into the device of a dog, and sometimes of a lion's bead, and was daily burnished with such religious... | |
| Washington Irving - 1821 - 414 páginas
...unenlightened grandmothers. The front door was never opened except on marriages, funerals, new-year's-days, the festival of St. Nicholas, or some such great occasion....gorgeous brass knocker, curiously wrought, sometimes into the device of a dog, and sometimes of a lion's head ; and was daily burnished with such religious... | |
| Washington Irving - 1824 - 318 páginas
...his mind ; — the most stanch and loyal citizens, however, always went according to the weathercock on the top of the governor's house, which was certainly...daily burnished with such religious zeal, that it was oft-times worn out by the very precautions taken for its preservation. The whole house was constantly... | |
| George Lockhart - 1824 - 870 páginas
...unenlightened grandmothers. The front door was never opened except on marriages, funerals, new-year's days, the festival of St. Nicholas, or some such great...gorgeous brass knocker, curiously wrought, sometimes into the device of a dog, and sometimes of a lion's head ; and was daily burnished with such religious... | |
| Washington Irving - 1825 - 356 páginas
...unenlightened grandmothers. The front door was never opened except on marriages, funerals, new-year's days, the festival of St. Nicholas, or some such great...occasion. It was ornamented with a gorgeous brass knocker, cnriously wrought, sometimes into the device of a dog, and sometimes of a lion's head ; and was daily... | |
| Washington Irving - 1826 - 452 páginas
...character which formed the utmost ambition of our unenlightened grandmoPASSION FOR CLEANING. 185 thers. The front door was never opened except on marriages,...daily burnished with such religious zeal, that it was oft-times worn out by the very precautions taken for its preservation. The whole house was constantly... | |
| Washington Irving - 1828 - 354 páginas
...unenlightened grandmothers. The front door was never opened except on marriages, funerals, new-year's days, the festival of St. Nicholas, or some such great occasion. It was ornamented with a gorgeous hrass knocker, curiously wronght, sometimes into the device of a dog, and sorin time* of a lion's head... | |
| Washington Irving - 1829 - 292 páginas
...unenlightened grandmothers. The front door was never opened except on marriages, funerals, new-years' days, the festival of St. Nicholas, or some such great...daily burnished with such religious zeal, that it was oft-times worn out by the very precautions taken for its preservation. The whole house was constantly... | |
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