 In one corner was a stagnant pool of water, surrounding an island of muck; there were several half-drowned fowls crowded together under a cart, among which was a miserable, crest-fallen cock, drenched out of all life and spirit; his drooping tail matted,...  Literary Criticisms and Other Papers - Stran 78avtor: Horace Binney Wallace - 1856 - 458 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Angus Evan Abbott - 1909 - 480 strani
...island of muck; there were several half-drowned fowls crowded together under a cart, among which was a miserable, crestfallen cock, drenched out of all life...standing patiently to be rained on, with wreaths of vapour rising from her reeking hide; a wall-eyed horse, tired of the loneliness of the stable, was... | |
 | Abram Royer Brubacher, Dorothy Ermina Snyder - 1910 - 386 strani
...island of muck ; there were several half-drowned fowls crowded together under a cart, among which was a miserable, crest-fallen cock, drenched out of all...back ; near the cart was a half-dozing cow, chewing her cud, and standing patiently to be rained on, with wreaths of vapor rising from her reeking hide... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1910 - 444 strani
...island of muck; there were several half -drowned fowls crowded together under a cart, among which was a miserable, crestfallen cock, drenched out of all life...water trickled from his back ; near the cart was a half -dozing cow, chewing the cud, and standing patiently to be rained on, with wreaths of vapor rising... | |
 | Marietta Knight - 1914 - 232 strani
...crest-fallen rooster, drenched out of all life and spirit, his drooping feathers matted into a single plume, along which the water trickled from his back. Near...vapor rising from her reeking hide. A walleyed horse was poking his spectral head out of a window, with the rain dripping on it from the eaves. The day... | |
 | Bertram Waldrom Matz - 1927 - 366 strani
...Stout Gentleman " in " Bracebridge Hall," published in 1822. " In one corner (of the stable yard) was a miserable crestfallen cock, drenched out of all life...drooping tail matted as it were into a single feather. A wall-eyed horse .... was poking his spectral head out of a window, with the rain dripping on it from... | |
 | Thomas Burke - 1927 - 436 strani
...under a cart, among which was a miserable, crestfallen cock, drenched out of all life and spirit ; near the cart was a half-dozing cow, chewing the cud,...standing patiently to be rained on, with wreaths of vapour rising from her reeking hide ; a drab of a kitchen wench tramped backwards and forwards through... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1991 - 1134 strani
...island of muck; there were several half-drowned fowls crowded together under a cart, among which was a miserable, crest-fallen cock, drenched out of all...standing patiently to be rained on, with wreaths of vapour rising from her recking hide; a wall-eyed horse, tired of the loneliness of the stable, was... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1864 - 582 strani
...island of muck : there were several half-drowned fowls crowded together under a cart, among which was a miserable crestfallen cock, drenched out of all life...chewing the cud, and standing patiently to be rained upon, with wreaths of vapour rising from her reeking hide ; a wall-eyed horse, tired of the loneliness... | |
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