| Golden gift - 1868 - 168 pages
...piece of ground in the whole country ; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong in spite of him. His fences were continually falling to pieces...cabbages ; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his ftelds than anywhere else ; the rain always made a point of setting-in just as he had some out-door... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1869 - 260 pages
...piece of ground in the whole country ; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were continually falling to pieces...weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than anywhere else ; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some out-door work to do... | |
| Friedrich Wilhelm P. Oertel - 1870 - 244 pages
...piece of ground in the whole country ; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were continually falling to pieces...weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than anywhere else ; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some out-door work to do... | |
| John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 pages
...pestilent piece of ground in the whole country. Everything about it went wrong, would go wrong in spite of him. His fences were continually falling to pieces...weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than anywhere else ; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some outdoor work to do ;... | |
| Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 pages
...wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were continually falling to pieces; bis cows would either go astray, or get among the cabbages;...weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than anywhere else ; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some outdoor work to do:... | |
| Casket - 1873 - 874 pages
...piece of ground in the whole country ; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong in spite DEMNED TO DEATH. One of the kings of Scamleroon, A royal jester Had cither g» astray, or get among the cabbages ; weeds wensure to grow quicker in his fields than anywhere... | |
| Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 pages
...piece of ground in the whole country; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were continually falling to pieces; his cow would either gp astray or get among the cabbages; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than anywhere else;... | |
| Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1878 - 206 pages
...piece of ground in the whole country ; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong, a> in spite of him. His fences were continually falling to pieces...weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than anywhere else ; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some out-door work to do... | |
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