 The grand parlour was the sanctum sanctorum, where the passion for cleaning was indulged without control. In this sacred apartment no one was permitted to enter, excepting the mistress and her confidential maid, who visited it once a week; for the purpose...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Pagina 5541820Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 pagina’s
...look upon to be a mere sport of fancy, or what is worse, a wilful misrepresentation. The grand parlor was the sanctum sanctorum, where the passion for cleaning was indulged without control. In this sacred apartment no one was permitted to enter, excepting the mistress and her confidential... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 pagina’s
...that a historian of the day gravely tells us that many of his townswomen grew to have webbed fingers like unto a duck ; and some of them, he had little...upon to be a mere sport of fancy, or what is worse, a willful misrepresentation. The grand parlor was the sanctum sanctorum, where the passion for cleaning... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - 1899 - 768 pagina’s
...that a historian of the day gravely tells us, that many of his townswomen grew to have webbed fingers like unto a duck ; and some of them, he had little...what is worse, a wilful misrepresentation. The grand parlor was the sanctum sanctorum, where the passion for cleaning was indulged without control. In this... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 444 pagina’s
...that a historian of the day gravely tells us that many of his townswomen grew to have webbed fingers like unto a duck ; and some of them, he had little...upon to be a mere sport of fancy, or what is worse, a willful misrepresentation. The grand parlor was the sanctum sanctorum, where the passion for cleaning... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pagina’s
...that a historian of the day gravely tells us that many of his townswomen grew to have webbed fingers like unto a duck ; and some of them, he had little...upon to be a mere sport of fancy, or what is worse, a willful misrepresentation. The grand parlor was the sanctum sanctorum, where the passion for cleaning... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 430 pagina’s
...look upon to be a mere sport of fancy, or what is worse, a willful misrepresentation. The grand parlor was the sanctum sanctorum, where the passion for cleaning was indulged without control. In this sacred apartment no one was permitted to enter, excepting the mistress and her confidential... | |
 | Isaac Kaufman Funk, Montrose Jonas Moses - 1904 - 358 pagina’s
...scrubbing-brushes; and the good housewives of those days were a kind of amphibious animal. "The grand parlor was the sanctum sanctorum, where the passion for cleaning was indulged without control. In this sacred apartment no one was permitted to enter except the mistress and her confidential... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1909 - 336 pagina’s
...that an historian of the day gravely tells us, that many of his townswomen grew to have webbed fingers like unto a duck ; and some of them, he had little doubt, could the matter be examined into, would 10 be found to have the tails of mermaids, — but this I look upon to be a mere sport of fancy, or,... | |
 | Charles H.Sylevester - 1909 - 594 pagina’s
...the day gravely tells us that many of his townswomen grew to have webbed fingers like unto a duck; but this I look upon to be a mere sport of fancy, or, what is worse, a willful misrepresentation. The grand parlor was the sanctum-sanctorum where the passion for cleaning... | |
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