 | England - 1820 - 876 pages
...wealthy, as could afford to keep a waggon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave of them with a hearty...heart, occasioned no scandal at that time, nor should h at the present — if our great grandfathers approved of the custom, it would argue a great want... | |
 | Washington Irving - American wit and humor - 1825 - 356 pages
...afford to keep a waggon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective ahodes, and took leave of them with a hearty smack at the door : which, as it was an estahlished piece of etiquette, done in perfect simplicity and honesty of heart, occasioned no scandal... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1828 - 354 pages
...afford to keep a waggon. The gentlemen gallantly attended then fair ones to their respective ahodes, and took leave of them with a hearty smack at the door: which, as it was an estahlished piece of etiquette, done in perfect simplicity and honesty of heart, occasioned no scandal... | |
 | Washington Irving - American wit and humor - 1829 - 292 pages
...wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave of them with a hearty...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - American wit and humor - 1831 - 522 pages
...wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave of them with a hearty...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... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - New York (State) - 1842 - 652 pages
...wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave of them with a hearty...it was an established piece of etiquette, done in perfept simplicity and honesty of heart, occasioned no scandal at that time, nor should it at the present... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 1124 pages
...wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave of them with a hearty...at that time, nor should it at the present ; — if oiir great-grandfathers approved of the custom, it would argue a great want of deference in their descendants... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Literary Criticism - 1848 - 662 pages
...wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon.— The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave of them with a hearty...occasioned no scandal at that time, nor should it at present—if our great-grandfathers approved of the custom, it would argue a great want of reverence... | |
 | Washington Irving - Dutch Americans - 1848 - 472 pages
...wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave of them with a hearty...the door: which, as it was an established piece of etiquet, done in perfect simplicity and honesty of heart, occasioned no scandal at that tune, nor should... | |
 | Washington Irving - Astoria (Or.) - 1849 - 472 pages
...wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave of them with a hearty...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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The parties broke up without noise and without confusion. 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... 
