 | Washington Irving - 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 522
...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 ;ind heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 566
...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... | |
 | 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 742
...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... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...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...even though he should not be encouraged by a single is nibble. He would carry a fowling piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 276
...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... | |
 | John Kneeland, Henry Nathan Wheeler - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 494
...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 hoinis together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 140
...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... | |
 | 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 168
...patience necessary to a fisherman is described by Washington Irving in his account of Rip Van Winkle who " would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy...though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble." trolls. This word is more generally applied to the bait used than to the water. To troll is to turn... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 436
...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...murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by n single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through... | |
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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. 
