Among the musical disciples who assembled, one evening in each week, to receive his instructions in psalmody, was Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and only child of a substantial Dutch farmer. She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen; plump as a partridge;... Washington Irving - Página 228por Charles Dudley Warner - 1881 - 304 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Fredrick Thomas Dawson - 1915 - 314 páginas
...disciples who assembled, one evening in each week, to receive his instructions in psalmody, was Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and only child of a substantial Dutch farmer. She was a bloming lass of "^5 fresh eighteen; plump as a partridge; ripe and melting ] and rosy-cheeked as one... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Everett Hale, Washington Irving, Francis Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain - 1917 - 616 páginas
...disciples who assembled, one evening in each week, to receive his instructions in psalmody, was Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and only child of a substantial...eighteen; plump as a partridge; ripe and melting and rosy cheeked as one of her father's peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but... | |
| William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1919 - 650 páginas
...mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was—a woman. farmer. She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen; plump as a partridge; ripe and melting and rosy cheeked as one of her father's peaches; and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but... | |
| William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck, Lura E. Runkel - 1921 - 618 páginas
...disciples who assembled, one evening in each week, to receive his instructions in psalmody, was Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and only child of a substantial...partridge; ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked as one of her 2s father's peaches; and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but her vast expectations. She... | |
| William Harris Elson - 1921 - 520 páginas
...disciples who assembled, one evening in each week, to receive his instructions in psalmody, was Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and only child of a substantial...partridge; ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked as one of her 25 father's peaches; and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but her vast expectations. She... | |
| Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 páginas
...disciples who assembled, one evening in each week, to receive his instructions in psalmody, was Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and only child of a substantial...eighteen; plump as a partridge; ripe and melting and rosy cheeked as one of her father's peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but... | |
| Washington Irving - 1983 - 1198 páginas
...disciples who assembled, one evening in each week, to receive his instructions in psalmody, was Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and only child of a substantial...eighteen; plump as a partridge; ripe and melting and rosy cheeked as one of her father's peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but... | |
| M. Thomas Inge - 364 páginas
...heroine, Sophie Pomroy, and Katrina Van Tassel. In introducing Katrina, Irving poignandy describes her as a "blooming lass of fresh eighteen; plump as a partridge; ripe and melting and rosy cheeked as one of her father's peaches" (278). Similarly, Cobb figuratively describes Sophie as... | |
| Jane H. Hunter, Professor Jane Hunter - 2002 - 496 páginas
...nondescript personage," of gangly limbs and humorous physiognomy, and described a new young teacher as "plump as a partridge, ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked as one of her father's peaches." As to the students' posture toward this new teacher: "No, we did not try to initiate her. We dreaded... | |
| Christa Grewe-Volpp, Werner Reinhart - 2003 - 382 páginas
...was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen; plump äs a partridge; ripe and melting and rosy cheeked äs one of her father's peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beaury, but her vast expectations. [...] Ichabod Crane had a soft and foolish heart toward die sex;... | |
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