 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 pages
...and to put on that genuine holyday spirit which is tolerant of folly, and anxious only for amusement. In the course of a December tour in Yorkshire, I rode...principally bound to the mansions of relations or frienda to eat the Christmas dinner. It was loaded also with hampers of game, and baskets and boxes... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 196 pages
...and to put on that genuine holiday spirit which is tolerant gf folly and anxious only for umu scment. In the course of a December tour in Yorkshire , I...was loaded also with hampers of game , and baskets ;m<l boxes of delicacies ; and hares hung dangling their long ears about the coachman's box ; presents... | |
 | 1836 - 332 pages
...was late in the month of December, that I fcras making a tour in Yorkshire, in the course of which, I rode for a long distance in one of the public coaches,...crowded, both inside and out, with passengers, who, from their talk, seemed principally bound to the mansions of relations or friends, to eat the Christmas... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 1124 pages
...and to put on that genuine holiday spirit which is tolerant of folly, and auxious only for amusement. In the course of a December tour in Yorkshire, I rode...in one of the public coaches, on the day preceding Christinas. The coach was crowded, both inside and out, with passengers, who, by their talk, seemed... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1843 - 400 pages
...to put on that genuine holiday spirit which is tolerant of folly , and anxious only for amusement. In the course of a December tour in Yorkshire , I rode for a long distance in one of the pubb'c coaches, on the day preceding Christmas. The coach was crowded, both inside and out, with passengers... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...paid to the immortal name of WASHINGTON ! IRVING. The Stage-coach. — Preparations for Christmas. IN the course of a December tour in Yorkshire, I rode...relations or friends to eat the Christmas dinner. It 31 was loaded also with hampers of game, and baskets, and boxes of delicacies ; and hares, hung dangling... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1852 - 580 pages
...and to put on that genuine holiday spirit which is tolerant of folly, and anxious only for amusement. In the course of a December tour in Yorkshire, I rode...relations or friends, to eat the Christmas dinner. It waa loaded also with hampers of game, and baskets and boxes of delicacies ; and hares hung dangling... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 pages
...security, with which we look around upon the comfortable chamber and the scene of domestic hilarity ? In the course of a December tour in Yorkshire, I rode...to the mansions of relations or friends to eat the Christmas-dinner. It was loaded also with hampers of game, and baskets and boxes of delicacies ; and... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1871 - 410 pages
...beloved by all who knew him. The following extract is a portion of a paper in the Sketch Book.] 1. IN the course of a December tour in Yorkshire, I rode...the public coaches, on the day preceding Christmas. I had three fine rosy-cheeked boys for my fellow-passengers, full of the buxom health and manly spirit... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1872 - 168 pages
...about to commence. To the last century belong most of the distinguished names in our country's annals. In the course of a December tour in Yorkshire, I rode for a long time in one of the public coaches, on the day preceding Christmas. I had three fine rosy-cheeked schoolboys... | |
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In the course of a December tour in Yorkshire, I rode for a long distance in one of the public coaches, on the day preceding Christmas. The coach was crowded, both inside and out, with passengers, who, by their talk, seemed principally bound to the mansions... 
