 | 1820 - 646 pages
...used to sit in the shade, of a long lazy summer's day, talk listlessly over village gossip, or tell endless sleepy stories about nothing. But it would...newspaper fell into their hands, from some passing traveller. How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the... | |
 | 1819 - 610 pages
...used to sit in the shade, of a long lazy summer's day, talk listlessly over village gossip, or tell endless sleepy stories about nothing. But it would have been worth any stateman's money to have heard the profound discussions that sometimes took place, when by chance ah... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty George the Third. Here they used to sit in the shade, of a long lazy summer's day, talking listlessly over...newspaper fell into their hands from some passing traveller. How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...used to sit in the shade, of a long lazy summer's day, talk listlessly over village gossip, or tell endless sleepy stories about nothing. But it would...newspaper fell into their hands from some passing traveller. How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 402 pages
...designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty George the Third. Here they used to sit in the shade, of a long lazy summer's day, talking listlessly over...newspaper fell into their hands from some passing traveller. How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty George the Third. Here they used to sit in the shade, of a long lazy summer's day, talking listlessly over...newspaper fell into their hands from some passing traveller. How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the... | |
 | English literature - 1826 - 654 pages
...lazy summer's day, talk listlessly over village gossip, or tell endless sleepy stories about mitlm.?. But it would have been worth any statesman's money...newspaper fell into their hands from some passing traveller. How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the... | |
 | English literature - 1819 - 606 pages
...worth any stateman's money to have heard the profound discussions that sometimes took place, vrhen by chance an old newspaper fell into their hands, from some passing traveller. How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the... | |
 | Psychology - 1828 - 394 pages
...used to sit in the shade, of a long lazy summer's day, talk listlessly over village gossip, or tell endless sleepy stories about nothing. But it would...sometimes took place, when by chance an old newspaper felf into their hands, from some passing traveller. How solemnly they would listen to the contents,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
...designated by a rubicund portrait of his majesty George the Third. _ Here they used to sit in the shade, of a long lazy summer's day, talking listlessly over...statesman's money to have heard the profound discussions which sometimes took place, when by chance an old newspaper fell into their hands, from some passing... | |
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... a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty George the Third. Here they used to sit in the shade... 
