Works: Complete in 27 Volumes. Wolfert's roost and other papers, Volumen17Putnam, 1865 - 453 páginas |
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... fathers of a wide rural neighborhood . Here families were garnered together , side by side , in long platoons , in this last gathering place of kindred . With pious hand would Diedrich Knickerbocker turn down the weeds and brambles ...
... fathers of a wide rural neighborhood . Here families were garnered together , side by side , in long platoons , in this last gathering place of kindred . With pious hand would Diedrich Knickerbocker turn down the weeds and brambles ...
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... fathers ; and his great goose - gun with him : yet his stronghold still bears the impress of its Dutch origin . Odd rumors have gathered about it , as they are apt to do about old mansions , like moss and weather - stains . The shade of ...
... fathers ; and his great goose - gun with him : yet his stronghold still bears the impress of its Dutch origin . Odd rumors have gathered about it , as they are apt to do about old mansions , like moss and weather - stains . The shade of ...
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... father was descended from one of the old Huguenot families , that came over to this country on the revocation of the Edict of Nantz . He lived in a style of easy , rural independence , on a patrimonial estate that had been for two or ...
... father was descended from one of the old Huguenot families , that came over to this country on the revocation of the Edict of Nantz . He lived in a style of easy , rural independence , on a patrimonial estate that had been for two or ...
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... father observed me continually with a book in my hand , and satisfied himself that I was a profound stu- dent ; but what were my studies ? Works of fiction , tales of chivalry , voyages of discovery , travels in the East ; everything ...
... father observed me continually with a book in my hand , and satisfied himself that I was a profound stu- dent ; but what were my studies ? Works of fiction , tales of chivalry , voyages of discovery , travels in the East ; everything ...
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... father most irreverently termed " humbug . " For my part , I de- lighted in them , and the more especially because they set my father to sleep , and completely confounded my sisters . I entered , with my accustomed eagerness , into this ...
... father most irreverently termed " humbug . " For my part , I de- lighted in them , and the more especially because they set my father to sleep , and completely confounded my sisters . I entered , with my accustomed eagerness , into this ...
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