 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 604 pagine
...I knew she was oversize, but she now appeared a fair match for Falstaff. I knew she was called an " old maid," and I felt no doubt of the truth of at least half of the appelation ; but now, when I beheld her, I could not for my life avoid thinking of my mother ; and... | |
 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1889 - 278 pagine
...knew she was over-size, but she now appeared a fair match for Falstaff. I knew she was called an ' old maid,' and I felt no doubt of the truth of at...of the appellation ; but now, when I beheld her, I eould not for my life avoid thinking of my mother ; and this, not from withered features, for her skin... | |
 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1889 - 282 pagine
...I knew she was over-size, but she now appeared a fair match for Falstaff. I knew she was called an 'old maid,' and I felt no doubt of the truth of at...of the appellation ; but now, when I beheld her, I eould not for my life avoid thinking of my mother; and this, not from withered features, for her skin... | |
 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1892 - 408 pagine
...knew she was over-size, but she now appeared a fair match for Falstaff. I knew she was called an ' old maid,' and I felt no doubt of the truth of at...of the appellation ; but now, when I beheld her, I eould not for my life avoid thinking of my mother; and this, not from withered features, for her skin... | |
 | William Henry Herndon - 1892 - 616 pagine
...knew she was over-size, but she now appeared a fair match for Falstaff. I knew she was called an ' old maid,' and I felt no doubt of the truth of at...of the appellation ; but now, when I beheld her, I eould not for my life avoid thinking of my mother ; and this, not from withered features, for her skin... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 280 pagine
...knew she was over-size, but she now appeared a fair match for Falstaff. I knew she was called an " old maid,"- and I felt no doubt of the truth of at...thinking of my mother; and this, not from withered features,—for her skin was too full of fat to permit of its contracting into wrinkles—but from... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 1080 pagine
...a fair match for Falstaff. I ki she was called an " old maid," and I felt no doubt of the truth o1 least half of the appellation, but now, when I beheld her, I co not for my life avoid thinking of my mother ; and this, not fr withered features, — for her skin... | |
 | Thompson Gains Onstot - 1902 - 420 pagine
...application, but now when I beheld her I could not help thinking of my mother, and this not from her withered features for her skin was too full of fat to permit it to wrinkle, but from her want of teeth and weatherbeaten appearance in general and from a kind of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 460 pagine
...I knew she was over-size, but she now appeared a fair match for Falstaff. I knew she was called an "old maid," and I felt no doubt of the truth of at...thinking of my mother; and this, not from withered features,—for her skin was too full of fat to permit of its contracting into wrinkles,—but from... | |
 | Elizabeth Avery Meriwether - 1904 - 294 pagine
...as vile a slur as man can make at an honorable woman. Mark the sentence: "I knew she was called an 'old maid,' and I felt no doubt of the truth of at least one-half of the appellation." Is not this intimating a doubt of the chastity of the woman he had four... | |
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I had seen her before, she did not look as my imagination had pictured her. I knew she was over-size, but she now appeared a fair match for Falstaff ; I knew she was called an "old maid... 
