 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1810 - 444 Seiten
...sedentary habits, and very averse to the idle labour of walking. His legs, though exceeding short, were sturdy in proportion to the weight they had to sustain; so that when erect, he had net a little the appearance of a robustious beer barrel, standing on skids. His face, that infallible... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1812 - 306 Seiten
...His legs, though exceeding fhort, were fturdy in proportion to the weight they had to fuftain ; fo that when erect he had not a little the appearance of a robuftious beer barrel, flanding on fkids. His face, that infallible index of the mind, prefented a... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1819 - 302 Seiten
...body was of an oblong form, particularly capacious at bottom; which was wisely ordered by providence, seeing that he was a man of sedentary habits, and very averse to the idle labour of walking. His legs, though exceeding short, were sturdy in proportion to the weight they had... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1819 - 476 Seiten
...body was of an oblong form, particularly capacious at bottom ; which was wisely ordered by providence, seeing that he was a man of sedentary habits, and very averse to the idle labour of walking. His legs, though exceeding short, were sturdy in proportion to the weight they had... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1819 - 310 Seiten
...body was of an oblong form, particularly capacious at bottom; which was wisely ordered by providence, seeing that he was a man of sedentary habits, and very averse to thejdJeJaJmuiLaLwajiing. His legs, though exceeding short, were sturdy in proportion to the w«ight... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 532 Seiten
...sedentary habits, and very averse to the idle labour of walking. His legs, though exceeding short, were sturdy in proportion to the weight they had to sustain...when erect, he had not a little the appearance of a robustious beer barrel, standing on skids. His face, that infallible index of the mind, presented a... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 556 Seiten
...body was of an oblong form, particularly capacious at bottom ; which was wisely ordered by Providence, seeing that he was a man of sedentary habits, and very averse to the idle labour of walking. His legs, though exceeding short, were sturdy in proportion to the weight they had... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 414 Seiten
...body was of an oblong form, particularly capacious at bottom; which was wisely ordered by providence, seeing that he was a man of sedentary habits, and very averse to the idle labour of walking. His legs, though exceeding short, were sturdy in proportion to the weight they had... | |
 | 1821 - 732 Seiten
...body was of an oblong form, particularly capacious at bottom ; which was wisely ordered by providence, seeing that he was a man of sedentary habits, and very averse to the idle labour of walking. His legs, though exceeding short, were sturdy in proportion to the weight they had... | |
 | George Lockhart - 1824 - 870 Seiten
...body was of an oblong form, particularly capacious at bottom ; which was wisely ordered by providence, seeing that he was a man of sedentary habits, and very averse to the idle labour of walking. His legs, though exceeding short, were sturdy in proportion to the weight they had... | |
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His body was oblong and particularly capacious at bottom ; which was wisely ordered by Providence, seeing that he was a man of sedentary habits, and very averse to the idle labor of walking. 
