 They were carried home by their own carriages, that is to say, by the vehicles nature had provided them, excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took...  Knickerbocker's History of New York - Pagina 258door Washington Irving - 1893 - 743 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - 1899 - 768 pagina’s
...attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave of them with a hearty smack at the door; which, as it was an established piece of etiquette,...simplicity and honesty of heart, occasioned no scandal at the time, nor should it at the present ; if our great-grandfathers approved of the custom, it would... | |
 | Sherman Williams - 1902 - 504 pagina’s
...attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave of them with a hearty smack at the door; which, as it was an established piece of etiquette,...approved of the custom, it would argue a great want of reverence in their descendants to say a word against it. GOVERNOR MANGO AND THE SOLDIER WASHINGTON... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1905 - 330 pagina’s
...attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave of them with a hearty smack at the door; which, as it was an established piece of etiquette,...should it at the present — if our great-grandfathers npproved of the custom, it would argue a great want of reverence in their descendants to say a word... | |
 | Charles H.Sylevester - 1909 - 594 pagina’s
...attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave of them with a hearty smack at the door, which as it was an established piece of etiquette,...approved of the custom, it would argue a great want of reverence in their descendants to say a word against it. tures drawn of the golden reign of Saturn,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1909 - 336 pagina’s
...attended their fair ones to their respective 10 abodes, and took leave of them with a hearty smack at the door : which, as it was an established piece of etiquette,...great-grandfathers approved of the custom, it would argue IS a great want of deference in their descendants to say a word against it. CHAPTER IV CONTAINING FURTHER... | |
 | Walter Lowrie Hervey, Melvin Hix - 1918 - 552 pagina’s
...home by their own carriages, that is to say, by the vehicles nature had provided them, excepting such which, as it was an established piece of etiquette,...approved of the custom, it would argue a great want of reverence in their descendants to say a word against it. — WASHINGTON IRVING. WHAT CONSTITUTES A... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1922 - 530 pagina’s
...attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave of them with a hearty smack at the door, which as it was an established piece of etiquette,...approved of the custom, it would argue a great want of reverence in their descendants to say a word against it. In this dulcet period of my history, when... | |
 | Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - 1922 - 648 pagina’s
...attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave of so them with a hearty smack at the door ; which, as it was an established piece of etiquette,...approved of the custom, it would argue a great want of reverence in their descendants to say a word against it. CHAPTER IX How the Fort Goed Hoop was fearfully... | |
 | Isobel Davidson - 1925 - 512 pagina’s
...attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave of them with a hearty smack at the door: which, as it was an established piece of etiquette,...deference in their descendants to say a word against it. In this delightful period of my history, there was a happy ignorance, an honest simplicity prevalent... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1927 - 572 pagina’s
...attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave of them with a hearty smack at the door: which as it was an established piece of etiquette,...that time, nor should it at the present — if our great grandfathers approved of the custom, it would argue a great want of reverence in their descendants... | |
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