 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1875 - 250 sivua
...which generally equalled that of the gentleman's small-clothes ; and, what is still more praiseworthy, they were all of their own manufacture, — of which...may well be supposed, they were not a little vain. Those were the honest days in which every woman staid at home, read the Bible, and wore pockets, —... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 sivua
...which generally equalled that of the gentlemen's smallclothes ; ' and what is still more praiseworthy, they were all of their own manufacture — of which...convenient receptacles, where all good housewives carefully stowed away such things as they wished to have at hand ; by which means they often came to be incredibly... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 sivua
...which generally equalled that of the gentlemen's smallclothes ; ' and what is still more praiseworthy, they were all of their own manufacture— of which...Bible, and wore pockets — ay, and that too of a _; goodly size, fashioned with patchwork into many curious devices, and ostentatiously worn on the... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - 1897 - 644 sivua
...which generally equaled that of the gentlemen's small-clothes; and what is still more praiseworthy, they were all of their own manufacture — of which...vain. These were the honest days in which every woman stayed at home, read the Bible, and wore pockets — ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with... | |
 | John Dorland Cremer - 1898 - 336 sivua
...oiclock, supped at five, and retired at sunset Their tables were plentifully supplied with plain • "These were the honest days, in which every woman staid at home, read the Bible, and wore pockets— «y, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patchwork into many carious devices, and ostentatiously... | |
 | Alice Morse Earle - 1903 - 1164 sivua
...which generally equalled that of the gentlemen's small-clothes ; and what is still more praise-worthy, they were all of their own manufacture, — of which...may well be supposed, they were not a little vain. " Those were the honest days, in which every woman stayed at home, read the Bible, and wore pockets,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1909 - 336 sivua
...generally equalled that of the gentleman's small-clothes ; and what is still more praiseworthy, 20 they were all of their own manufacture, — of which...a goodly size, fashioned with patchwork into many 25 25 curious devices, and ostentatiously worn on the outside. These, in fact, were convenient receptacles,... | |
 | Charles H.Sylevester - 1909 - 594 sivua
...which generally equalled that of the gentlemen's small-clothes; and, what is still more praiseworthy, they were all of their own manufacture, of which circumstance,...vain. These were the honest days in which every woman stayed at home, read the Bible, and wore pockets—ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with... | |
 | Kate Forrest Oswell, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1912 - 618 sivua
...which generally equaled that of the gentleman's smallclothes; 2 and what is still more praiseworthy, they were all of their own manufacture, — of which circumstance, as may well be supposed, 25 they were not a little vain. These were the honest days in which every woman stayed at home, read... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1922 - 530 sivua
...which generally equalled that of the gentlemen's small-clothes ; and, what is still more praiseworthy, they were all of their own manufacture, of which circumstance,...vain. These were the honest days in which every woman stayed at home, read the Bible, and wore pockets — ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with... | |
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... and what is still more praiseworthy, they were all of their own manufacture — of which circumstance, as may well be supposed, they were not a little vain. These were the honest days, in which every woman staid at home, read the Bible, and wore pockets... 
