 | England - 1820 - 876 pages
...hairbreadth escapes and bloody encounters among the Indians. " In those happy days a well regulated family always rose with the dawn, dined at eleven, and went to bed at sun down. Dinner was invariably a private meal, and the fat old burghers shewed incontestible... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1819 - 302 pages
...and hairbreadth escapes and bloody encounters among the Indians. In those happy days a well regulated family always rose with the dawn, dined at eleven, and •went to bed at sun down. Dinner was invariably a private meal, and the fat old burghers showed incontestable... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1819 - 310 pages
...and hairbreadth escapes and bloody encounters among the Indians. In those happy days a well regulated family always rose with the dawn, dined at eleven, and went to bed at sun down. Dinner was invariably a private meal, and the fat old burghers showed incontestible... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1820 - 556 pages
...New-England witches — grisly ghosts — horses without heads — and hairbreadth escapes and bloody encounters among the Indians. In those happy days...always rose with the dawn, dined at eleven, and went to bed at sun-down. Dinner was invariably a private meal, and the fat old burghers showed incontestable... | |
 | 1820 - 490 pages
...hairbreadth escapes and bloody encounters among the Indians. ' In those happy days a well regulated family always rose with the dawn, dined at eleven, and went to bed at sun down. Dinner was invariably a private meal, and the fat old burghers shewed incontestible... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1821 - 414 pages
...hairbreadth escapes, and bloody encounters among the Indians. In those happy days a well regulated family always rose with the dawn, dined at eleven, and went to bed at sun down. Dinner was invariably a private meal, and the fat .old burghers showed incontestable... | |
 | 1821 - 732 pages
...whole, but we willingly make room for some portions of it. " In those happy days, a well regulated family always rose with the dawn, dined at eleven, and went to bed at sun-down. Dinner was invariably a 'private meal, and the fat old burghers shewed incontestible... | |
 | George Lockhart - Jacobites - 1824 - 870 pages
...hairbreadth escapes, and bloody encounters among the Indians. In those happy days a well regulated family always rose with the dawn, dined at eleven, and went to bed at sun down. Dinner was invariably a private meal, and the fat old burghers showed incontestable... | |
 | Washington Irving - American wit and humor - 1825 - 356 pages
...the family ; and who, perched like a raven in a corner of the chimney, would croak forth for a lung winter afternoon a string of incredihle stories ahout...such occasions. But thongh our worthy ancestors were thns singularly averse to giving dinners, yet they kept up the social hands of intimacy hy occasional... | |
 | Washington Irving - American wit and humor - 1829 - 292 pages
...New-England witches — grisly ghosts, horses without heads — and hairbreadth escapes and bloody encounters among the Indians. In those happy days...always rose with the dawn, dined at eleven, and went to bed at sun-down. Dinner was invariably a private meal, and the fat old burghers showed incontestible... | |
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Dinner was invariably a private meal, and the fat old burghers showed incontestable symptoms of disapprobation and uneasiness at being surprised by a visit from a neighbor on such occasions. But though our worthy ancestors were thus singularly averse... 
