 The front door was never opened except on marriages, funerals, new year's days, the festival of St. Nicholas, or some such great occasion. It was ornamented with a gorgeous brass knocker, curiously wrought, sometimes in the device of a dog, and sometimes...  Knickerbocker's History of New York - Pagina 250door Washington Irving - 1893 - 743 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1820 - 876 pagina’s
...unenlightened grandmothers. The front door was never opened except on marriages, funerals, new year's days, the festival of St Nicholas, or some such great...gorgeous brass knocker, curiously wrought, sometimes into the device of a dog, and sometimes of a lion's head, and was daily burnished with such religious... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1819 - 302 pagina’s
...unenlightened grandmothers. The front door was never opened except on marriages, funerals, new years' days, the festival of St. Nicholas, or some such great...daily burnished with such religious zeal, that it was oft times worn out by the very precautions taken for its preservation. The whole house was constantly... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1819 - 310 pagina’s
...unenlightened grandmothers. The front door was never opened except on marriages, funerals, new years' days, the festival of St. Nicholas, or some such great...daily burnished with such religious zeal, that it was oft times worn out by the very precautions taken for its preservation. The whole house was constantly... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 532 pagina’s
...unenlightened grandmothers. The front door was never opened except on marriages, funerals, new years' days, the festival of St. Nicholas, or some such great...of a lion's head, and was daily burnished with such religions zeal, that it was oftN 178 PASSION FOR CLEANING. times worn out by the very precautions taken... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 556 pagina’s
...never opened except on marriages, funerals, new years' days, the festival of St. Nicholas, or somu such great occasion. It was ornamented with a gorgeous...daily burnished with such religious zeal, that it was oftN times worn out by the very precautions taken for its preservation. The whole house was constantly... | |
 | 1820 - 730 pagina’s
...unenlightened grandmothers. The front door was never opened except on marriages, funerals, new year's days, the festival of St Nicholas, or some such great...gorgeous brass knocker, curiously wrought, sometimes into the device of a dog, and sometimes of a lion's head, and was daily burnished with such religious... | |
 | 1820 - 490 pagina’s
...grandmothers. The front door was never opened except on marriages, funerals, new year's days, the feali vi of St. Nicholas, or some such great occasion — It...gorgeous brass knocker, curiously wrought, sometimes into the device of a dog, and sometimes of a lion's bead, and was daily burnished with such religious... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 414 pagina’s
...grandmothers. : The front door was never .opened except on marriages, iunerals, new-year's-days ,. the festival of St. Nicholas, or some such great occasion;...gorgeous brass knocker, curiously wrought, sometimes into the device of a dog; and sometimes of a lion's head; and was daily burnished with such religious... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 572 pagina’s
...never opened except on marriages, funerals, new years' days, the festival of St. Nicholas, or,some such great occasion. It was ornamented with a gorgeous...such religious zeal, that it was oft-times worn out hy the very precautions taken for its- preservation. The whole house was constantly in a state of inundation,... | |
 | George Lockhart - 1824 - 870 pagina’s
...housewife: a character which formed the utmost ambition of our unenlightened grandmothers. The front door was never opened except on marriages, funerals, new-year's...gorgeous brass knocker, curiously wrought, sometimes into the device of a dog, and sometimes of a lion's head ; and was daily burnished with such religious... | |
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