 | Marshall Pinckney Wilder - American wit and humor - 1908 - 260 pages
...carved about the arms and feet into exact imitations of gigantic eagle's claws. Instead of a scepter, 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1909 - 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...powers. In this stately chair would he sit, and this 10 magnificent pipe would he smoke, shaking his right knee with a constant motion, and fixing his eye... | |
 | Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - American literature - 1915 - 670 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... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - American prose literature - 1916 - 798 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... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American prose literature - 1916 - 760 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 (N.Y.) - 1927 - 572 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... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - American literature - 1927 - 1288 pages
...to the idle labor of walking. His legs 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations - 1971 - 1514 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. It has... | |
 | Washington Irving - Fiction - 1983 - 1198 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 910 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... | |
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Amsterdam, and curiously carved about the arms and feet, into exact imitations of gigantic eagles' claws. Instead of a sceptre, he swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmin and amber, which had been presented to a stadtholder of Holland, at the... 
