 | England - 1820 - 876 pages
...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... | |
 | England - 1820 - 730 pages
...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 pages
...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 - New York (State) - 1821 - 414 pages
...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 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 - New York (State) - 1824 - 318 pages
...his mind ; — the most stanch and loyal citizens, however, always went according to the weathercock on the top of the governor's house, which was certainly...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... | |
 | George Lockhart - Jacobites - 1824 - 870 pages
...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 - American wit and humor - 1825 - 356 pages
...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...occasion. It was ornamented with a gorgeous brass knocker, cnriously wrought, sometimes into the device of a dog, and sometimes of a lion's head ; and was daily... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (N.Y.) - 1826 - 452 pages
...character which formed the utmost ambition of our unenlightened grandmoPASSION FOR CLEANING. 185 thers. The front door was never opened except on marriages,...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 - New York (State) - 1828 - 354 pages
...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 occasion. It was ornamented with a gorgeous hrass knocker, curiously wronght, sometimes into the device of a dog, and sorin time* of a lion's head... | |
 | Washington Irving - American wit and humor - 1829 - 292 pages
...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... | |
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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 of a lion's head, and was daily burnished with such religious zeal... 
