 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 sivua
...always took the precaution of leaving their shoes at the door, and entering devoutly in their stocking feet. After scrubbing the floor, sprinkling it with fine white sand, — which was curiously stroked with a broom into 5 angles and curves and rhomboids, — after washing the windows, rubbing and polishing... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1922 - 530 sivua
...always taking the precaution of leaving their shoes .at the door and entering devoutly in their stocking feet. After scrubbing the floor, sprinkling it with...polishing the furniture, and putting a new bunch of evergreen in the fireplace — the window shutters were again closed to keep out the flies, and the... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - 1922 - 648 sivua
...tak- so ing the precaution of leaving their shoes at the door and entering devoutly on their stocking feet. After scrubbing the floor, sprinkling it with...putting a new bunch of evergreens in the fireplace — 90 the window-shutters were again closed to keep out the flies, and the room carefully locked up... | |
 | Isobel Davidson - 1925 - 512 sivua
...taking the precaution of leaving their shoes at the door, and entering devoutly on their stocking-feet. After scrubbing the floor, sprinkling it with fine...new bunch of evergreens in the fireplace, — the window-shutters were again closed to keep out the flies, and the room carefully locked up until the... | |
 | Henry Seidel Canby, John Baker Opdycke - 1925 - 638 sivua
...always took the precaution of leaving their shoes at the door, and entering devoutly in their stocking feet. After scrubbing the floor, sprinkling it with fine white sand — which was curiously stroked with a broom into angles and curves and rhomboids — after washing the windows, rubbing and polishing... | |
 | National Americana Society - 1926 - 926 sivua
...interior would be found to be of painful cleanness, with a sanded floor, which to use Irving 's words, "was curiously stroked into angles, and curves, and rhomboids with a broom." It might be mentioned in this connection that a tradition exists to the effect that it was the desecration... | |
 | Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1927 - 648 sivua
...always taking the precaution of leaving their shoes at the door and entering devoutly on their stocking feet. After scrubbing the floor, sprinkling it with...a new bunch of evergreens in the fireplace — the window-shutters were again closed to keep out the flies, and the room carefully locked up until the... | |
 | 1856 - 844 sivua
...door, and entering devoutly on their stocking feet. After scrubbing the floor, sprinkling the floor with fine white sand, which was curiously stroked into angles, and curves, and rhomboids; after washing the windows, rubbing and poluhiug the furniture, and putting a new bunch of evergreens... | |
 | 1856 - 840 sivua
...entering devoutly on their stocking feet. After scrubbing the floor, sprinkling the floor with tine white sand, which was curiously stroked into angles, and curves, and rhomboids; after washing the windows, rubbing and polishing the furniture, and putting a new bunch of evergreens... | |
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... the mistress and her confidential maid, who visited it once a week, for the purpose of giving it a thorough cleaning, and putting things to rights— always taking the precaution of leaving their shoes at the door, and entering devoutly on their stocking... 
