 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1810 - 444 pages
...sedentary habits, and very averse to the idle labour of walking. His legs, though exceeding short, were sturdy in proportion to the weight they had to sustain; so that when erect, he had net a little the appearance of a robustious beer barrel, standing on skids. His face, that infallible... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (N.Y.) - 1812 - 306 pages
...His legs, though exceeding fhort, were fturdy in proportion to the weight they had to fuftain ; fo that when erect he had not a little the appearance of a robuftious beer barrel, flanding on fkids. His face, that infallible index of the mind, prefented a... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1819 - 302 pages
...body was of an oblong form, particularly capacious at bottom; which was wisely ordered by providence, seeing that he was a man of sedentary habits, and very averse to the idle labour of walking. His legs, though exceeding short, were sturdy in proportion to the weight they had... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1819 - 310 pages
...body was of an oblong form, particularly capacious at bottom; which was wisely ordered by providence, seeing that he was a man of sedentary habits, and very averse to thejdJeJaJmuiLaLwajiing. His legs, though exceeding short, were sturdy in proportion to the w«ight... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1820 - 532 pages
...sedentary habits, and very averse to the idle labour of walking. His legs, though exceeding short, were sturdy in proportion to the weight they had to sustain...when erect, he had not a little the appearance of a robustious beer barrel, standing on skids. His face, that infallible index of the mind, presented a... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1820 - 556 pages
...body was of an oblong form, particularly capacious at bottom ; which was wisely ordered by Providence, seeing that he was a man of sedentary habits, and very averse to the idle labour of walking. His legs, though exceeding short, were sturdy in proportion to the weight they had... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1821 - 414 pages
...body was of an oblong form, particularly capacious at bottom; which was wisely ordered by providence, seeing that he was a man of sedentary habits, and very averse to the idle labour of walking. His legs, though exceeding short, were sturdy in proportion to the weight they had... | |
 | 1821 - 732 pages
...body was of an oblong form, particularly capacious at bottom ; which was wisely ordered by providence, seeing that he was a man of sedentary habits, and very averse to the idle labour of walking. His legs, though exceeding short, were sturdy in proportion to the weight they had... | |
 | George Lockhart - Jacobites - 1824 - 870 pages
...body was of an oblong form, particularly capacious at bottom ; which was wisely ordered by providence, seeing that he was a man of sedentary habits, and very averse to the idle labour of walking. His legs, though exceeding short, were sturdy in proportion to the weight they had... | |
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His body was oblong and particularly capacious at bottom ; which was wisely ordered by Providence, seeing that he was a man of sedentary habits, and very averse to the idle labor of walking. 
