... took root, and in a few weeks grew to the prodigious height of thirty feet, and still preserving its proportions and characteristic appearance, extended in each direction, until it covered a space of ground some forty by twenty feet in measurement.... Phoenixiana: Or, Sketches and Burlesques - Page 26by George Horatio Derby - 1856 - 274 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Horatio Derby - American wit and humor - 1856 - 308 pages
...ground some forty by twenty feet in measurement. " This singular phenomenon was taken advantage of by the proprietors ; doors and windows were cut in the...beyond, rises a noble structure, built entirely of cut-wood, called ' The Valley House, by Mrs. Hubbard." Not imagining that a venial species of profanity... | |
| American wit and humor - 1864 - 258 pages
...taken advantage of by the proprietors; doors and windows were eut in the wardrobe, a ehimney ereeted, and it now answers every purpose of an addition to the original eottage, being two stories in height I This, doubtless, appears almost ineredible, but fortunately... | |
| James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1884 - 862 pages
...in each direction, until it covered a space of ground some forty by twenty feet in measurement . . . and it now answers every purpose of an addition to the original cottage, being two stories in height !' The remainder of this remarkable chapter is equally brilliant, and is embellished .by some of the... | |
| Military art and science - 1881 - 528 pages
...in each direction, until it covered a space of ground some forty by twenty feet in measurement . . . and it now answers every purpose of an addition to the original cottage, being two stories in height !" The remainder of this remarkable chapter is equally brilliant, and is embellished by some of the... | |
| George Horatio Derby - 1889 - 304 pages
...ground some forty by twenty feet in measurement. " This singular phenomenon was taken advantage of by the proprietors; doors and windows were cut in the...the original cottage, being two stories in height 1 This, doubtless, appears almost incredible, but fortunately the house and attached wardrobe may be... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1894 - 464 pages
...ground some forty by twenty feet in measurement. " This singular phenomenon was taken advantage of by the proprietors ; doors and windows were cut in the...beyond, rises a noble structure, built entirely of cutwood, called ' The Valley House,' by Mrs. Hubbard." Not imagining that a venial species of profanity... | |
| Military history - 1903 - 738 pages
...in each direction until it covered a space of ground some forty by twenty feet in measurement. . . . and it now answers every purpose of an addition to the original cottage, being two stories in height !" The remainder of this remarkable chapter is equally brilliant, and is embellished by some of the... | |
| John Phoenix - Humor - 2008 - 698 pages
...ground some forty by twenty feet in measurement. "This singular phenomenon was taken advantage of by the proprietors ; doors and windows were cut in the...beyond, rises a noble structure, built entirely of cut-wood, called ' The Valley House,' by Mrs. Hubbard." Not imagining that a venial species of profanity... | |
| John Phoenix - Humor - 2008 - 698 pages
...ground some forty by twenty feet in measurement. "This singular phenomenon was taken advantage of by the proprietors ; doors and windows were cut in the...beyond, rises a noble structure, built entirely of cut-wood, called ' The Valley House,' by Mrs. Hubbard." Not imagining that a venial species of profanity... | |
| Engineering - 1911 - 436 pages
...ground some forty by twenty feet in measurement. "This singular phenomenon was taken advantage of by the proprietors ; doors and windows were cut in the...seen any day, from the road, at a trifling expense of omnibous hire, by the skeptical. Some distance beyond, rises a noble structure, built entirely of cut-wood,... | |
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