 On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd-looking personages playing at ninepins. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion; some wore short doublets, others jerkins, with long knives in their belts, and most of them had enormous breeches...  Elementary English... - Page 26by Lillian Gertrude Kimball - 1911Full view - About this book
 | 1820 - 646 pages
...of similar style with that of the guide's. Their visages, too, were peculiar : one had a large head, broad face, and small piggish eyes ; the face of another...by a white sugarloaf hat, set off with a little red cockstail. They all had beards, of various shapes and colours. There was one who seemed to be the commander.... | |
 | 1819 - 610 pages
...style with that of the guide's. Their visages, too, were peculiar : ове had a krge head, broad fať, and small piggish eyes ; the face of another seemed to consist entirely ef nose, and was surmounted by a white sugarloaf hat, set off with a little red cockstail. They all... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...of similar style with that of the guide's. Their visages, too, were peculiar : one had a large head, broad face, and small piggish eyes ; the face of another...sugarloaf hat, set off with a little red cock's tail. They all had beards, of various shapes and colours. There was one who seemed to be the commander. He... | |
 | 1820 - 870 pages
...of similar style with that of the guide's. Their visages, too, were peculiar : one had a large head, broad face, and small piggish eyes ; the face of another...a white sugar-loaf hat, set off with a little red cock's-tail. They all had beards, of various shapes and colours. There was one who seemed to be the... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...of similar style with that of the guide's. Their visages, too, were peculiar : one had a large head, broad face, and small piggish eyes ; the face of another...by a white sugarloaf hat, set off with a little red cockstail. They all had beards, of various shapes and colours. There was one who seemed to be the commander.... | |
 | 1821 - 504 pages
...similar style with that of the guide's. ' Their visages, too, were peculiar : one had a large head, broad ' face, and small piggish eyes ; the face of another seemed to con' sist entirely of nose, and was surmounted by a white sugarloaf ' hat, set off with a little red... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 402 pages
...of similar style with that of the guide's. Their visages, too, were peculiar : one had a large head, broad face, and small piggish eyes ; the face of another...sugarloaf hat, set off with a little red cock's tail. They all had beards, of various shapes and colours. There was one who seemed to be the commander. He... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...of similar style with that of the guide's. Their visages, too, were pecvdiar: one had a large head, broad face, and small piggish eyes : the face of another...sugarloaf hat, set off with a little red cock's tail. They all had beards, of various shapes and colours. There was one who seemed to be the commander. He... | |
 | 1824 - 394 pages
...of similar style with that of the guide's. Their visages, too, were peculiar : one had a large b:ad, and small piggish eyes ; the face of another seemed...sugar-loaf hat, set off with a little red cock's tail. They all had beards, of various shapes and colours. There was one who seemed to be the commander. He... | |
 | English literature - 1819 - 606 pages
...of similar style with that of the guide's. Their visages, too, were peculiar : one had a large bead, broad face, and small piggish eyes ; the face of another...by a white sugarloaf hat, set off with a little red cockstail. They all had beards, of various shapes and colours. There was one who seemed to be the commander.... | |
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