... carved out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages; and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling... The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon - Page 153by Washington Irving - 1835Full view - About this book
| 1820 - 870 pages
...even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back in a side-dish, with uplifted clavrs, »s if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit...enraptured Ichabod fancied all this, and as he rolled his peat green eyes over the fat meadow lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buck-wheat and Indian... | |
| Washington Irving - 1834 - 330 pages
...and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit...rye, of buck-wheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burdened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm tenement of Van Tassel, his heart yearned after... | |
| Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 pages
...and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter, which his chivalrous spirit...rye, of buck-wheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burdened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm tenement of Van Tassel, his heart yearned after... | |
| Washington Irving - 1843 - 390 pages
...and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit...meadow lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buck- wheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burdened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm... | |
| Washington Irving - 1848 - 478 pages
...and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side-dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit...and as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadow-lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burthened... | |
| Washington Irving - 1849 - 544 pages
...and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side-dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit...and as he rolled his great green eyes over the f'at meadow-lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burthened... | |
| Washington Irving - Americans - 1852 - 580 pages
...and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side-dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit...living. As the enraptured Ichabod fancied all this, and us he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadow-lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat,... | |
| Washington Irving - Gift books - 1853 - 304 pages
...sprawling on his back, in a side dish, with uplifted claws as if craving that quarter, which his chivalric spirit disdained to ask while living. As the enraptured...corn, and the orchards burthened with ruddy fruit, tvhich surrounded the warm tenement of Van Tassel, his heart yearned after the damsel who was to inherit... | |
| Joseph Gostwick - American literature - 1856 - 338 pages
...and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back in a side-dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit...and as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadow-lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burdened... | |
| Washington Irving - 1865 - 518 pages
...and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side-dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit...and as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadow-lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burthened... | |
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