| Washington Irving - 1881 - 916 pages
...arms and f«-.-t, into exact imitations of gigantic eagle's claws. Instead of a HISTORY OF NEW YORK. sceptre he swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmin and amber, which had been presented to a stadtholder of Holland, at the conclusion of a treaty with one of the petty Barbary powers. In this... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - Literary Criticism - 1881 - 336 pages
...swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmin and amber, which had been presented to a stadtholder of Holland at the conclusion of a treaty with one of the pfetty Barbary powers. In this stately chair would he sit, ami this magnificent pipe would he smoke,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1882 - 558 pages
...feet, into exact imitations of gigantic eagle's claws. Instead of a sceptre, he swayed a long Torkish pipe, wrought with jasmin and amber, which had been presented to a stadtholder of Holland at the conclusion of a treaty with one of the petty Barbary powers. In this... | |
| William Swinton - 1883 - 492 pages
...swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmine and amber, which had been presented to a stadtholder of Holland, at the conclusion of a treaty with one of the petty Barbary powers. 2. In this stately chair would he sit, and this magnificent pipe would he smoke, shaking his right... | |
| William Swinton - Readers - 1883 - 504 pages
...swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmine and amber, which had been presented to a stadtholder of Holland, at the conclusion of a treaty with one of the petty Barbary powers. 2. In this stately chair would he sit, and this magnificent pipe would he smoke, shaking his right... | |
| Washington Irving - 1884 - 472 pages
...accounting for its rising above the surrounding atmosphere. In his council he presided with great sfcite and solemnity. He sat in a huge chair of solid oak,...with jasmin and amber, which had been presented to a stadtholder of Holland, at the conclusion of a treaty with one of the petty Barbary powers. In this... | |
| Edward Tuckerman Mason - American wit and humor - 1886 - 310 pages
...Amsterdam, and curiously carved about the arms and feet, into exact imitations of gigantic eagle's claws. Instead of a sceptre, he swayed a long Turkish...with jasmin and amber, which had been presented to a stadtholder of Holland at the conclusion of a treaty with one of the petty Barbary powers. In this... | |
| American literature - 1886 - 332 pages
...Amsterdam, and curiously carved about the arms and feet, into exact imitations of gigantic eagle's claws. Instead of a sceptre, he swayed a long Turkish...with jasmin and amber, which had been presented to a stadtholder of Holland at the conclusion of a treaty with one of the petty Barbary powers. In this... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...Amsterdam, and curiously carved about the arms and feet, into exact imitations of gigantic eagle's claws. Instead of a sceptre he swayed a long Turkish...with jasmin and amber, which had been presented to a stadtholder of Holland, at the conclusion of a treaty with one of the petty Barbary powers. In this... | |
| Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1888 - 542 pages
...Bterdam, and curiously carved &bout the arms and feet, into exact imi.atious of gigantic eagle's daws. Instead of a sceptre, he swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasuxin and amber which had been presented to a stadtholder of Holland at the cc«ncJiision cf a treaty... | |
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