 | 1839 - 256 pages
...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 lance, and fish all daywithout a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 478 pages
...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 - 1848 - 518 pages
...profitable labor. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit oil a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's...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 - 1849 - 544 pages
...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... | |
 | 1849 - 340 pages
...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 as Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 538 pages
...murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and uji hill and down dale, to shoot a few squirrels or wild pigeons. He would never refuse to assist a... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pages
...want of assiduity or perseverance; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod äs long and heavy äs a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur,...be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his sUonlder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill and... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 pages
...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... | |
 | 1856 - 704 pages
...following, from a Washington correspondent, we thought of this characteristic of KIP VAN WINKLE : ' He would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and...even though he should not be encouraged by a single bite : ' 1 A FRIEND of mine once told me a ' good thing,' in the piscatorial line, of a gentleman of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 520 pages
...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...though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble, lie would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps,... | |
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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. 
