| Washington Irving - 1882 - 712 pages
...formed of a barrel ; and then stole sparkling away through the ¡ brook, that babbled alon^ u willows. Hard by the farm-house was a vast barn, that might...bursting forth with the treasures of the farm ; the nail was busily resounding within it from morning to night ; swallows and martins skimmed twittering... | |
| Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 pages
...away through the grass, to a neighboring brook, that bubbled along among alders and dwarf willows. Hard by the farmhouse was a vast barn, that might...weather, some with their heads under their wings, or buried in their bosoms, and others swelling, and cooing, and bowing about their dames, were enjoying... | |
| Washington Irving - 1883 - 52 pages
...away through the grass, to a neighboring brook, that bubbled along among alders and dwarf willows. Hard by the farm-house was a vast barn, that might...flail was busily resounding within it from morning till night; swallows and martins skimmed twit-330 tering about the eaves; and rows of pigeons, some... | |
| Anna Randall Diehl - 1883 - 422 pages
...away, through the grass, to a neighboring brook, that bubbled along among alders and dwarf-willows. Hard by the farm-house was a vast barn, that might...flail was busily resounding within it from morning till night; swallows and martins skimmed twitteTing about the eaves; and rows of pigeons, some with... | |
| Washington Irving - 1884 - 472 pages
...to a neighbouring brook, that babbled along among alders and dwarf willows. Hard by the farm house was a vast barn, that might have served for a church...of the farm; the flail was busily resounding within from morning to night; swallows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves ; and rows of pigeons,... | |
| 1885 - 544 pages
...sparkling away through the grass to a neighboring brook that bubbled along among alders and dwarf willows. Hard by the farmhouse was a vast barn that might have...flail was busily resounding within it from morning till night, swallows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves, and rows of pigeons — some with... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 pages
...dispensation of pleasure.' • How easily might this inimitable description be transferred to canvas: 'Hard by the farm-house was a vast barn, that might...bursting forth with the treasures of the farm; the flajl was busily resounding within it from morning to night: swallows and martins skimmed twittering... | |
| Washington Irving - 1888 - 624 pages
...neighboring brook, that bubbled along among alders and dwarf willows. Hard by the farm-house was a Tast barn, that might have served for a church, every window...flail was busily resounding within it from morning till night ; swallows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves ; and rows of pigeons, some with... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - 1888 - 286 pages
...away through the grass, to a neighboring brook, that babbled along among alders and dwarf willows. (Hard by! the farm-house was a vast barn, that might have served fora church, every window and crevice of which seemed bursting forth with the treasures of the farm... | |
| 1890 - 864 pages
...sparkling away through the grass to a neighboring brook that bubbled along among alders und dwarf willows. Hard by the farm-house was a vast barn that might...a church, every window and crevice of which seemed bursts ing forth with the treasures of the farm ; the Hall was busily rebounding within it from morning... | |
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