 Bible, and wore pockets — ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patchwork into many curious devices, and ostentatiously worn on the outside. These, in fact, were convenient receptacles, where all good housewives carefully stored away such...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 3651820Full view - About this book
 | England - 1820 - 876 pages
...which every woman staid at home, read the Bible, and wore pockets — aye, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patch-work into many curious...means they often came to be incredibly crammed— «nd I remember there was a story current when I was a boy, that the lady of Wouter Van T wilier once... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1819 - 302 pages
...which every woman staid at home, read the Bible, and wore pockets — ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patch-work into many curious...— and I remember there was a story current when I was a boy, that the lady of "Wouter Van Twiller once had occasion to empty htir right pocket in search... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1819 - 310 pages
...which every woman staid at home, read the Bible, and wore pock-* ets — ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patch-work into many curious...— and I remember there was a story current when I was a boy, that the lady of Wouter Van Twiller once had occasion to empty her right pocket in search... | |
 | 1820 - 490 pages
...home, read the Bible, and wore pockets — aye and that to* of a goodly size, fashioned with patch work into many curious devices, and ostentatiously worn...— and I remember there was a story current when I was a boy, that the lady of Wouter Van Twiller once had occasion to empty her right pocket in search... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1821 - 414 pages
...which every woman staid at home, read the Bible, and wore pockets — aye, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patch-work into many curious...— and I remember there was a story current when I was a boy, that the lady of Wouter Van Twiller once had occasion to empty her right pocket in search... | |
 | 1821 - 732 pages
...every woman staid at home, read the 5 pot liti Bible, and wore pocket! — ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patch-work into many curious...— and I remember there was a story current when I was a boy, that the lady of Wouter Van Twiller, once had occasion to empty her right pocket, in search... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1821 - 414 pages
...read the Bible, and wore pockets— '-aye, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patch- work into many curious devices, and ostentatiously worn...— and I remember there was a story current when I was a boy, that the lady of Wouter Van Twiller once had occasion to empty her right pocket in search... | |
 | George Lockhart - Jacobites - 1824 - 870 pages
...which every woman staid at home, read the Bible, and wore pockets — ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patchwork into many curious devices,...— and I remember there was a story current when I was a boy, that the lady of Wouter Van Twiller once had occasion to empty her right pocket in search... | |
 | Washington Irving - American wit and humor - 1825 - 356 pages
...in which every woman staid at home, read the Bible, and wore pockets— ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patchwork into many curious devices,...crammed— and I remember there was a story current when I was a hoy, that the lady of Wouter Van Twiller once had occasion to empty her right pocket in search... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (N.Y.) - 1826 - 452 pages
...which every woman staid at home, read the Bible, and wore pockets — ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patch-work into many curious...carefully stored away such things as they wished to hare at h»nd ; by which means they often came to be incredibly crammed — and I remember there was... | |
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