 ... worn out by the very precautions taken for its preservation. The whole house was constantly in a state of inundation, under the discipline of mops and brooms and scrubbingbrushes; and the good housewives of those days were a kind of amphibious animal,...  Blackwood's Magazine - 第314页1820全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 页
...daily burnished with such religious zeal that it was often worn out by the very precautions taken 10 for its preservation. The whole house was constantly...of amphibious animal, delighting exceedingly to be 15 dabbling in water, — insomuch that an historian of the day gravely tells us that many of his townswomen... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 页
...daily burnished with such religious zeal that it was often worn out by the very precautions taken 10 for its preservation. The whole house was constantly...of amphibious animal, delighting exceedingly to be is dabbling in water, — insomuch that an historian of the day gravely tells us that many of his townswomen... | |
 | Hamilton James Eckenrode - 1922 - 392 页
...ornamented with a gorgeous brass knocker, curiously wrought, sometimes in the device of a dog or lion. The whole house was constantly in a state of inundation under the discipline of mops and brooms and scrubbing-brushes : the housewives of those days were a sort of amphibious animal delighting in dabbling... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - 1922 - 648 页
...constantly in a state of inundation under the discipline of mops and brooms and scrubbing-brushes; and the good housewives of those days were a kind of amphibious animal, delight- 60 ing exceedingly to be dabbling in water, insomuch that an historian of the day gravely... | |
 | Isobel Davidson - 1925 - 512 页
...such great occasion. It was ornamented with a gorgeous brass knocker, curiously wrought, sometimes in the device of a dog, and sometimes of a lion's head,...inundation, under the discipline of mops and brooms and scrubbingbrushes; and the good housewives of those days were a kind of amphibious animal, delighting... | |
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