 ... he seldom said a foolish thing. So invincible was his gravity that he was never known to laugh or even to smile through the whole course of a long and prosperous life . Nay if a joke were uttered in his presence, that set light-minded hearers in a...  Washington Irving - Página 202por Charles Dudley Warner - 1881 - 304 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1907 - 374 páginas
...in his presence that set light-minded hearers in a roar, it was observed to throw him into a state of perplexity. Sometimes he would deign to inquire...laugh about!" With all his reflective habits, he never made up his mind on a subject. His adherents accounted for this by the astonishing magnitude of his... | |
 | Marshall Pinckney Wilder - 1908 - 260 páginas
...in his presence, that set light-minded hearers in a roar, it was observed to throw him into a state of perplexity. Sometimes he would deign to inquire...laugh about." With all his reflective habits, he never made up his mind on a subject. His adherents accounted for this by the astonishing magnitude of his... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1909 - 320 páginas
...thought I apply to Governor Van Twiller. It is true he was a man shut up within himself, like an oyater, and rarely spoke, except in monosyllables ; but then...about.' " With all his reflective habits, he never made up his mind on a subject. His adherents accounted for this by the astonishing magnitude of tis... | |
 | Charles H.Sylevester - 1909 - 594 páginas
...in his presence that set light-minded hearers in a roar, it was observed to throw him into a state of perplexity. Sometimes he would deign to inquire..."Well! I see nothing in all that to laugh about." The person of this illustrious old gentleman was formed and proportioned, as though it had been molded... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1909 - 336 páginas
...was observed to throw him into a state of perplexity. Sometimes he would deign to inquire into the 15 matter, and when, after much explanation, the joke..."Well! I see nothing in all that to laugh about." 20 With all his reflective habits, he never made up his mind on a subject. His adherents accounted... | |
 | Marshall Pinckney Wilder - 1911 - 266 páginas
...in his presence, that set light-minded hearers in a roar, it was observed to throw him into a state of perplexity. Sometimes he would deign to inquire...laugh about." With all his reflective habits, he never made up his mind on a subject. His adherents accounted for this by the astonishing magnitude of his... | |
 | Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 páginas
...in his presence, that set light-minded hearers in a roar, it was observed to throw him into a state of perplexity. Sometimes he would deign to inquire...laugh about." With all his reflective habits, he never made up his mind on a subject. His adherents accounted for this by the astonishing magnitude of his... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1915 - 340 páginas
...in his presence, that set light-minded hearers in a roar, it was observed to throw him into a state of perplexity. Sometimes he would deign to inquire...laugh about." With all his reflective habits, he never made up his mind on a subject. His adherents accounted for this by the astonishing magnitude of his... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 páginas
...in his presence, that set light-minded hearers in a roar, it was observed to throw him into a state of perplexity. Sometimes he would deign to inquire...laugh about." With all his reflective habits, he never made up his mind on a subject. His adherents accounted for this by the astonishing magnitude of his... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 páginas
...in his presence, that set light-minded hearers in a roar, it was observed to throw him into a state of perplexity. Sometimes he would deign to inquire...laugh about." With all his reflective habits, he never made up his mind on a subject. His adherents accounted for this by the astonishing magnitude of his... | |
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