 ... so that, though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out; an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eel-pot.  The Edinburgh Monthly Review - Página 3141820Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 420 páginas
...some embarrassment in getting out : an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eel-pot. The school-house stood...hill, with a brook running close by, and a formidable birch-tree growing at one end of it. From hence the low murmur of his pupils' voices, conning over... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1894 - 462 páginas
...embarrassment in getting out; — an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eelpot. The school-house stood...hill, with a brook running close by, and a formidable birch-tree growing at one end of it. From hence the low murmur of his pupil's voices, conning over... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 482 páginas
...some embarrassment in getting out ; an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eel-pot. The school-house stood...tree growing at one end of it. From hence the low murmur of his pupils' voices, conning over their lessons, might be heard in a drowsy summer's day,... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 396 páginas
...embarrassment in getting out : — an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eel-pot. The school-house stood...tree growing at one end of it. From hence the low murmur of his pupils' voices, conning over their lessons, might be heard in a drowsy summer's day,... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 238 páginas
...embarrassment in getting out, — an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eel-pot. The schoolhouse stood...hill, with a brook running close by, and a formidable birch-tree growing at one end of it. From hence the low murmur of his pupils' voices, conning over... | |
 | 1896 - 374 páginas
...— an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eelpot.1 The schoolhouse stood in a rather lonely but pleasant...hill, with a brook running close by, and a formidable birch-tree growing at one end of it. From hence the low murmur of his pupils' voices, conning over... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 72 páginas
...some embarrassment in getting out:—an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eelpot. The schoolhouse stood...hill, with a brook running close by, and a formidable birch-tree growing at one end of it. From hence the low murmur of his pupils' voices, conning over... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - 1897 - 644 páginas
...some embarrassment in getting out : an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eel-pot. The schoolhouse stood...hill, with a brook running close by, and a formidable birch-tree growing at one end of it. From hence the low murmur of his pupils' voices, conning over... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 páginas
...embarrassment in getting out, ; — an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eelpot. The school-house stood...hill, with a brook running close by, and a formidable birch-tree growing at one end of it. From hence the low murmur of his pupils' voices, conning over... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 218 páginas
...low building of one large room, rudely built of logs. It stood in a rather lonely but pleasant place, just at the foot of a woody hill, with a brook running close by, and a birch tree growing near one end of it. From this place of 15 learning the low murmur of children's... | |
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