 | Isobel Davidson - 1925 - 512 sivua
...which generally equalled that of the gentleman's smallclothes; 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... | |
 | Katherine Morris Lester - 1925 - 228 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,...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 —... | |
 | Alice Morse Earle - 1896 - 332 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...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 - 1927 - 572 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...woman staid at home, read the bible and wore pockets — aye, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patchwork into many curious devices, and ostentatiously... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1983 - 1198 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...woman staid at home, read the bible and wore pockets — aye, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patch-work into many curious devices, and ostentatiously... | |
 | Florence M. Montgomery - 2007 - 512 sivua
...colonial New Yorkers' doming: "Their petticoats of linsey-woolsey, were striped with gorgeous dyes. . . . they were all of their own manufacture, of which circumstance,...may well be supposed, they were not a little vain. The gentlemen of those days, were well content to figure in their linsey-woolsey coats — domestic... | |
 | 1820 - 990 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...woman staid at home, read the Bible, and wore pockets — aye, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patch-work into many curious devices, and ostentatiously... | |
 | 1821 - 774 sivua
...but then they made up in the number, which generally equalled that of the gentlemen's small-cloaths ; and what is still more praise- worthy, they were all...manufacture ; of which circumstance, as may well be sujiposed, they were not a little vain. These were the honest days, in which every woman staid at home,... | |
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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... 
