 Bible, and wore pockets — ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patchwork into many curious devices, and ostentatiously worn on the outside. These, in fact, were convenient receptacles, where all good housewives carefully stored away such...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 3651820Full view - About this book
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - Children's literature - 1922 - 530 pages
...which every woman stayed at home, read the Bible, and wore pockets — ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patchwork into many curious devices...crammed; and I remember there was a story current when I was a boy that the lady of Wouter Van Twiller once had occasion to empty her right pocket in search... | |
 | Isobel Davidson - Reading (Elementary) - 1925 - 512 pages
...pockets, — ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patchwork into many curious devices, and worn on the outside. These, in fact, were convenient...crammed; and I remember there was a story current, when I was a boy, that the lady of Wouter Van Twiller once had occasion to empty her right pocket in search... | |
 | Katherine Morris Lester - Clothing and dress - 1925 - 228 pages
...that too of a goodly size fashioned with patchwork into many curious devices and osten- — tatiously worn on the outside. These, in fact, were convenient...which means they often came to be incredibly crammed. Besides these notable pockets they also wore scissors and pincushions suspended from their girdles... | |
 | Alice Morse Earle - New York (N.Y.) - 1896 - 332 pages
...which every woman stayed at home, read the Bible, and wore pockets, — ay, and that, too, of a goodly size, fashioned with patchwork into many curious devices,...which means they often came to be incredibly crammed. " Besides these notable pockets, they likewise wore scissors and pincushions suspended from their girdles... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (N.Y.) - 1927 - 572 pages
...which every woman staid at home, read the bible and wore pockets — aye, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patchwork into many curious devices,...convenient receptacles, where all good housewives carefully stowed away such things as they wished to have at hand; by which means they often came to be incredibly... | |
 | Washington Irving - Fiction - 1983 - 1198 pages
...which every woman staid at home, read the bible and wore pockets — aye, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patch-work into many curious...crammed— and I remember there was a story current when I was a boy, that the lady of Woutcr Van Twiller, having occasion to empty her right pocket in search... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 910 pages
...which every woman staid at home, read the Bible, and wore pockets — ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patchwork into many curious devices,...— and I remember there was a story current when I was a boy that the lady of Woutcr Van Twiller once had occasion to empty her right pocket in search... | |
 | 1820 - 990 pages
...which every woman staid at home, read the Bible, and wore pockets — aye, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patch-work into many curious...— and I remember there was a story current when I was a boy, that the lady of W'outer Van Twiller once had occasion to empty her right pocket in search... | |
 | 1821 - 774 pages
...which every woman staid at home, read the 5 Bible, and wore pockets — ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patch-work into many curious...— and I remember there was a story current when I was a boy, that the lady of Wouter Van T wilier, once had occasion to empty her right pocket, in... | |
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