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Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Amphictyons Amsterdam ancient Antony Van Corlear bosom breeches burghers burgomasters called Casimir CHAPTER cocked commander Communipaw descendants divers doubt Dutch Dutchman earth enemy eyes fair Fort Casimir Fort Christina fortress gallant garrison Gibbet Island Goed Hoop GOLDEN REIGN governor grand council hand head heart heaven hero High Mightinesses historian honest honor Hudson huge Indian ingenious inhabitants island kind Knickerbocker Kortlandt land Manetho Manhattoes manner ment mind moss-troopers Mynheer neighbors Netherlands never Nicholas Nieuw Nederlands nose Oloffe the Dreamer oysters patroon perils Peter Stuyvesant Peter the Headstrong petticoats philosophers pipe Poffenburgh present province readers reign renowned Wouter Risingh river sage savages shores smoke sound sturdy Swedes sword tion took tranquillity true trumpet turn valiant valor venerable voyage Vrouw warriors whole Wilhelmus Kieft William Kieft William the Testy words worthy Wouter Van Twiller Yankees yore
Populaire passages
Pagina 162 - His face, that infallible index of the mind, presented a vast expanse, unfurrowed by any of those lines and angles which disfigure the human countenance with what is termed expression.
Pagina 159 - The renowned Wouter (or Walter) Van Twiller was descended from a long line of Dutch burgomasters, who had successively dozed away their lives, and grown fat upon the bench of magistracy in Rotterdam ; and who had comported themselves with such singular wisdom and propriety, that they were never either heard or talked of — which, next to being universally Applauded, should be the object of ambition of iill magistrates and rulers.
Pagina 193 - Thus equipped, he would manfully sally forth with pipe in mouth to besiege some fair damsel's obdurate heart — not such a pipe, good reader, as that which Acis did sweetly tune in praise of his Galatea, but one of true delft manufacture and furnished with a charge of fragrant Cow-pen tobacco.
Pagina 161 - The person of this illustrious old gentleman was as regularly formed, and nobly proportioned, as though it had been moulded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference.
Pagina 187 - Vrouw, to any question that was asked them ; behaving, in all things, like decent, well-educated damsels. As to the gentlemen, each of them tranquilly smoked his pipe, and seemed lost in contemplation of the blue and white tiles with which the fireplaces were decorated ; wherein sundry passages of Scripture were piously portrayed...
Pagina 165 - Wandle Schoonhoven, giving an occasional grunt as he shoveled a spoonful of Indian pudding into his mouth, either as a sign that he relished the dish or comprehended the story, he called unto him his constable, and, pulling out of his breeches pocket a huge jack-knife, dispatched it after the defendant as a summons, accompanied by his tobacco-box as a warrant.
Pagina 95 - Our master and his mate determined to try some of the chiefe men of the countrey, whether they had any treacherie in them. So they tooke them downe into the cabin and gave them so much wine and aqua...
Pagina 161 - Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable of supporting it; wherefore she wisely declined the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his backbone, just between the shoulders.
Pagina 387 - Just at this moment the illustrious sun, breaking in all its splendor from behind a high bluff of the highlands, did dart one of his most potent beams full upon the refulgent nose of the sounder of brass — the reflection of which shot straightway down, hissing hot, into the water, and killed a mighty sturgeon that was sporting beside the vessel...
Pagina 160 - There are two opposite ways by which some "" men make a figure in the world : one, by talking faster than they think, and the other, by holding their tongues and not thinking at all.