 | 1819 - 610 pages
...lectures of the kind, and that, by inquent use, had grotvri into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This,...draw off his forces, and take to the outside of the house — the only side which, in truth, belongs to a henpecked husband. Kip's sole domestic adherent... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This,...draw off his forces, and take to the outside of the house — the only side which, in truth, belongs to a hen-pecked husband. Rip's sole domestic adherent... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...lectures of the kind, and th?t, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This,...draw off his forces, and take to the outside of the house — the only side which, in truth, belongs to a henpecked husband. Rip's sole domestic adherent... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 402 pages
...lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This,...volley from his wife ; so that he was fain to draw off- -hiSiorces, and take to the outside of the house — the only side which, in truth, belongs to a hen-pecked... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1823 - 392 pages
...lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This,...he was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the oustide of the house — the only side which, in truth, belongs to a hen-pecked husband. Rip's sole... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This,...he was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the oustide of the house — the only side which, in truth, belongs to a hen-pecked husband. Rip's sole... | |
 | English literature - 1819 - 606 pages
...of the kind, and that, by iiv« quent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged hie shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This,...draw off his forces, and take to the outside of the house —the only side which, in truth, belongs to a henpecked husband. Kip's sole domestic adherent... | |
 | English literature - 1826 - 654 pages
...habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This, howe ver, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife ; so...draw off his forces, and take to the outside of the house — the only side which, in truth, belongs to a henpecked husband. Rip's sole domestic adherent... | |
 | Psychology - 1828 - 394 pages
...lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This,...draw off his forces, and take to the outside of the house — the only side which, in truth, belongs to a henpecked husband. , Rip's sole domestic adherent... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1830 - 346 pages
...lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had got into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This,...draw off his forces, and take to the outside of the house— the only side which, in truth, belongs to a henpecked husband. Rip's sole domestic adherent... | |
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Morning, noon, and night, her tongue was incessantly going, and everything he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip had but one way of replying to all lectures of the kind, and that by frequent use had grown into a habit.... 
