 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
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1828 - 354 pages
...which every woman staid at home, read the Bihle, and wore pockets — ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patchwork into many curious devices,...stored away such things as they wished to have at hand ; hy which means they often came to he incredihly crammed — and I rememher there was a fltory current... | |
 | Washington Irving - American wit and humor - 1831 - 522 pages
...pockets — ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patchwork into many curious.devices, and ostentatiously worn on the outside. These, in...to have at hand ; by which means they often came to he incredibly crammed — and I remember there was a story current when I was a boy, that the lady... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - New York (State) - 1842 - 666 pages
...which every woman staid at home, read the Bible, and wore pockets — ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patch-work into many curious...; by which means they often came to be incredibly crammad — and I remember there was a story current when I was a boy, that the lady of Wouter Van... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - New York (State) - 1842 - 652 pages
...which every woman staid at home, read the Bible, and wore pockets — ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patch-work into many curious...housewives carefully stored away such things as they wished 0to have at hand; by which means they often came to be incredibly crammed — and I remember there... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 500 pages
...which every woman staid at home, read the Bihle, and wore pockets — ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patchwork into many curious devices, and ostentatiously worn on the out. side. These, in fact, were convenient receptacles, whore all good housewives carefully stored... | |
 | Washington Irving - Dutch Americans - 1848 - 472 pages
...in 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,...hand; by which means they often came to be incredibly crammed—and I remember there was a story current when I was a boy, that the lady of "Wouter Van Twiller... | |
 | Washington Irving - Astoria (Or.) - 1849 - 490 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 Wouter Van Twiller once had occasion to empty her right pocket in search... | |
 | J. C. Gilleland - Gulf States - 1851 - 478 pages
...in which every woman staid at home, read the Bible, and wore pockets—ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patch-work into many curious...hand; by which means they often came to be incredibly crammed—and I remember there was a story current when I was a boy, that the lady of Wtfuter Van Twiller... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 470 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,...ostentatiously worn on the outside. These, in fact, were con venient receptacles, where all good housewives carefully stored away such things as they wished... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 476 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,...ostentatiously worn on the outside. These, in fact, were con venient receptacles, where all good housewives carefully stored away such things as they wished... | |
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