| Frances W. Lewis - 1900 - عدد الصفحات: 334
...original : of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a we track, with a rod as long and as heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without...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... | |
| Washington Irving - 1901 - عدد الصفحات: 218
...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... | |
| 1901 - عدد الصفحات: 452
...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... | |
| Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - عدد الصفحات: 356
...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... | |
| Washington Irving, Arthur Rackham, Pat Stewart - 1983 - عدد الصفحات: 52
...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... | |
| Allan Lloyd Smith, Victor Sage - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 256
...33) is marked as a patriarch of substantial status, but he is not phallic. Compare him with Rip who 'would carry a fowling piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through the woods, and swamps and up hill and down dale, to shoot a few squirrels' (p. 30). Unlike the 'trudging'... | |
| Washington Irving, Thea Kliros - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 84
...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... | |
| Washington Irving - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 840
...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... | |
| M. J. Turner - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 340
...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 and heavy as a Tartar's lancet and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble.... | |
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