 | Industrial arts - 1833 - 426 pages
...often loitered unknown near the idle groups of strangers, gathering in little circles, and hearing various inquiries as to the object of this new vehicle....or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at ray expense : the dry jest; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull but endless... | |
 | 1834 - 440 pages
...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...sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expence ; the dry jest; tfte wise c'alcuation of losses and expenditures; the dull but endless repetition... | |
 | William Pinnock - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1836 - 734 pages
...building yard, while my boat was in progress, I have loitered unknown near the idle groups of strangers, and heard various inquiries as to the object of this new vehicle. The language «as uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule ; the loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the... | |
 | Commerce - 1837 - 202 pages
...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...vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, or snrier» or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1838 - 604 pages
...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...vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh rose at my expense, the dry jest, the wise calculation of losses... | |
 | George Merriam - Reader (Elementary) - 1841 - 308 pages
...boat was in progress, I have often loitered, unknown, near the idle groups of strangers, gathering in little circles, and heard various inquiries as...vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh rose at my expense ; with the dry jest, the wise calculation of... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Atlantic States - 1841 - 530 pages
...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...vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, sneer, or ridicule: The loud laugh rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Travel - 1841 - 594 pages
...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...vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh rose at my expence ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses... | |
 | Albany (N.Y.) - 1844 - 104 pages
...near the idle groupe of strangers, gathered in little circles, and heard various inquiries relative to the object of this new vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, sneer or ridicule. The loud laugh rose at my expense, the dry jest, the wise calculations of losses... | |
 | Railroad engineering - 1841 - 412 pages
...unknown, near the idle group of strangers, gathered in little circles, and heard variousinquiries relative to the object of this new vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, sneer or ridicule. The loud laugh rose at my expense, the dry jest, the wise calculations of losses... | |
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As I had occasion to pass daily to and from the building yard 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.... 
