 | Washington Irving - 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 518
...aversion to all kinds of profitable labor. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long...be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill and... | |
 | Penny readings - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 304
...aversion to all kinds of profitable labour. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long...be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill and... | |
 | Golden gift - 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 168
...aversion to all kinds of profitable labour. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance, for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long...be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill and... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...profitable labour. It could not bo from tho want of assiduity or perseverance ; for ho would sit on a wot rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, oven though ho should not bo encouraged by a single nibble, lie would carry a fowling-piece on his... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm P. Oertel - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 244
...aversion to all kinds of profitable labour. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long...should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would cany a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, or up hill... | |
 | 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 660
...; and not a dog would bark at him throughout the neighborhood. want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long...be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill and... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 232
...aversion to all kinds of profitable labour. It could not be for the want of assiduity or perseverance, for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long...be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill and... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 874
...aversion to all kinds of profitable labour. It could not be for the want of assiduity or perseverance ; one's life is changed all ma moment, one docs not...continued, holding her Ьл-ad high with restrained excite fowlingpiece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill and... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 408
...aversion to all kinds of profitable labour. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long...be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill and... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 452
...aversion to all kinds of profitable labour. It could not he from the want of assiduity or perseverance, for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long...Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, oven though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowlingpiece on his shoulder,... | |
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It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. 
