 | Inez Nellie Canfield McFee - 1905 - 614 páginas
...been molded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and...circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1905 - 352 páginas
...spirited caricature cf his person, as a " model of majesty and lordly grandeur." The chronicler says : " He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and...circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions that dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - 1905 - 318 páginas
...been molded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and...circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled... | |
 | Sherman Williams - 1906 - 354 páginas
...not usually to be taken very seriously he was not so very far wrong when he said Woiiter Van Twiller was " exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference." Van Twiller brought one hundred and four soldiers with him, the first to be sent here by the Dutch.... | |
 | 1907 - 374 páginas
...been molded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and...circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled... | |
 | Marshall Pinckney Wilder - 1908 - 260 páginas
...been moulded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and...circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions, that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk Gordy - 1908 - 278 páginas
...so large and fat that Washington Irving, in his " Knickerbocker's History of New York," said in jest that "he was exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference." His temper was bad. He quarrelled with merchants, shippers, and magistrates, and kept up a constant bickering... | |
 | Charles H.Sylevester - 1909 - 594 páginas
...been molded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height and...circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions that Dame Nature with all her sex's ingenuity would have been puzzled to... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1909 - 336 páginas
...as may be. In the same manner, his heroes are gross caricatures of humanity. Wouter Van Twiller is five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference ; his body has the appearance of a beer barrel on skids ; his face presents a vast unfurrowed expanse, decorated... | |
 | 1904 - 484 páginas
...been moulded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary, ns a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height and...circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled... | |
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He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions, that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable... 
