As I had occasion to pass daily to and from the buildingyard, while my boat was in progress, I have often loitered unknown near the idle groups of strangers, gathering in little circles, and heard various inquiries as to the object of this new vehicle.... The Northern Light - Стр. 631844Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| 1831 - Страниц: 336
...unknown near the idle groups of strangers, gathering in little circles, and heard various inquiries as to the object of this new vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation... | |
| 1831 - Страниц: 336
...unknown near the idle groups of strangers, gathering in little circles, and heard various inquiries as to the object of this new vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense; the dry jest; the wise calculation... | |
| 1832 - Страниц: 406
...unknown near the idle groups of strangers, gathering in little circles, and heard various inquiries as to the object of this new vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation... | |
| 1833 - Страниц: 426
...unknown near the idle groups of strangers, gathering in little circles, and hearing various inquiries as to the object of this new vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at ray expense : the dry jest; the wise calculation... | |
| 1834 - Страниц: 116
...see the new Vessel, was uniformly that of scorn or disparagement. The loud laugh often arose at his expense, the dry jest, the wise calculations of losses and expenditures; the dull but endless repetition of, " The FnltonFolly!" " Never," says that martyr of ingratitude, " did a single encouraging... | |
| 1834 - Страниц: 440
...unknown near the idle groups of-strangers, gathering in little circles, and heard various inquiries as to the object of this new vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expence ; the dry jest; tfte wise c'alcuation... | |
| 1834 - Страниц: 498
...unknown near the idle groups of strangers, gathering in little circles, and heard various inquiries as to the object of this new vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation... | |
| Joseph Story - 1835 - Страниц: 558
...unknown near the idle groups of strangers, gathering in little circles, and heard various inquiries as to the object of this new vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation... | |
| 1836 - Страниц: 378
...unknown near the idle groups of strangers, gathering in little circles, and heard various inquiries as to the object of this new vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1838 - Страниц: 604
...unknown, near the idle groups of strangers gathering in little circles, and heard various inquiries as to the object of this new vehicle. The language was...loud laugh rose at my expense, the dry jest, the wise calculation of losses and expenditure, the dull but endless repetition of 'the Fulton Folly. .' Never... | |
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