 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 438 pages
...great-great-grandmother had brought over from Saardam ; the tempting stomacher of the olden time ; and withal a provokingly short petticoat, to ^display the prettiest foot and ancle in the country round. Ichabod Crane had a soft and foolish heart toward the sex ; and it is not... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 pages
...her great-great-grandmother had brought over from Saardam ; the tempting stomacher of the olden time; and withal a provokingly short petticoat, to display...round. Ichabod Crane had a soft and foolish heart toward the sex; and it is not to be wondered at, that so tempting a morsel soon found favour in his... | |
 | Washington Irving - England - 1822 - 490 pages
...her greatgreat-grandmother had brought over from Saardam; the tempting stomacher of the olden time ; and withal a provokingly short petticoat, to display...round. Ichabod Crane had a soft and foolish heart toward the sex ; and it is not to be wondered at, that so tempting a morsel soon found favour in his... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...great - great - grandmother had hrought over from Saardam ; the tempting stomacher of the olden time; and withal a provokingly short petticoat, to display...round. Ichabod Crane had a soft and foolish heart toward the sex ; and it is not to be wondered at, that so tempting a morsel soon found favour in his... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1830 - 346 pages
...great-great-grandmother had brought over from Saardum ; the tempting stomacher of the olden time ; and withal a provokingly short petticoat, to display...round. Ichabod Crane had a soft and foolish heart toward the sex; and it is not to be wondered at, that so tempting a morsel soon found favour in his... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 pages
...great-great-grandmother had brought over from Saardam ; the tempting stomacher of the olden time ; and withal a provokingly short petticoat, to display...round. Ichabod Crane had a soft and foolish heart toward the sex ; and it is not to be wondered at, that so tempting a morsel soon found favour in his... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1835 - 284 pages
...had brought over from Saardum ; the tempting stomacher of the olden time; and withal a prorokingly short petticoat, to display the prettiest foot and ankle in the country round. Ichubod Crane had a soft ami foolish heart toward the sex ; and it is not to be wondered at, tbat so... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 478 pages
...her greatgreat-grandmother had brought over from Saardam; the tempting stomacher of the olden time ; and withal a provokingly short petticoat, to display...heart towards the sex; and it is not to be wondered at, that so tempting a morsel soon found favor in his eyes ; more especially after he had visited her... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1848 - 518 pages
...her greatgreat-grandmother had brought over from Saardam ; the tempting stomacher of the olden time ; and withal a provokingly short petticoat, to display...heart towards the sex; and it is not to be wondered at, that so tempting a morsel soon found favor in his eyes ; more especially after he had visited her... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 544 pages
...her greatgreat-grandmother had brought over from Saardam; the tempting stomacher of the olden time ; and withal a provokingly short petticoat, to display...heart towards the sex; and it is not to be wondered at, that so tempting a morsel soon found favor in his eyes ; more especially after he had visited her... | |
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... a coquette, as might be perceived even in her dress, which was a mixture of ancient and modern fashions, as most suited to set off her .charms. She wore the ornaments of pure yellow gold which her great-greatgrandmother had brought over from Saardam,... 
