 Nature seemed to have entered into the jest, and hesitated to the last whether to make her a boy or a girl. Her taste led her to hunt with her brothers, to wrestle with the stable-boys, and to saw wood with the carpenter. She worked well in iron, could...  The London Quarterly Review - Page 2611846Full view - About this book
 | 468 pages
...seemed to have entered into the jest, and hesitated to the last whether to make her a boy or a girl. Her taste led her to hunt with her brothers, to wrestle...and was by many people suspected of being one. She learned to write of the butler at her own request, and had a taste for reading, which she greatly improved.... | |
 | 1892 - 890 pages
...wood with the carpenter. "She woiked well in iron, could shoe a horse quicker than the blacksmith, made excellent trunks. played well on the fiddle,...bass voice, and was by many people suspected of being a man." Sir Walter Scott knew her well, and speaks of her "jockey coat, masculine stride, strong voice,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - 1846 - 638 pages
...child she was ready to produce, and mutually swore an oath that it never should be taught any thing from the hour of its birth, or ever have its spirit...greatly improved. She was a droll ingenious fellow ; her talents for mimicry made her enemies, and the violence of her attachments to those she called her favourites,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - 1846 - 634 pages
...produce, and mutually swore an oath that it never should be taught any thing from the hour of its birlh, or ever have its spirit broken by contradiction. '...greatly improved. She was a droll ingenious fellow; her talents for mimicry made her enemies, and the violence of her attachments to those she called her favourite?,... | |
 | Alexander Crawford Lindsay Crawford - 1849 - 540 pages
...seemed to have entered into the jest, and hesitated to the last whether to make her a boy or a girl. Her taste led her to hunt with her brothers, to wrestle...greatly improved. She was a droll ingenious fellow ; her talents for mimicry made her enemies, and the violence of her attachments to those she called her diate... | |
 | Lord Henry Cockburn Cockburn - 1856 - 462 pages
...life, and when she was probably shrunk, she was not at all " Amazonian." Lady Anne's saying that she " sung a man's song, in a bass voice, and was by many people suspected of being one," and that "she was a droll, ingenious fellow," is all very graphic. session of the centre of a large... | |
 | Lord Henry Cockburn Cockburn - 1856 - 468 pages
...life, and when she was probably shrunk, she was not at all " Amazonian." Lady Anne's saying that she " sung a man's song, in, a bass voice, and was by many people suspected of being one," and that " elie was a droll, ingenious fellow," is all very graphic. session of the centre of a large... | |
 | Edward Bannerman Ramsay - 1862 - 508 pages
...her a boy or a girl. Her taste led her to hunt with her brothers, to wrestle with the stable boys, and to saw wood with the carpenter. She worked well...people suspected of being one. She learnt to write of tlie butler at her own request, and had a taste for reading, which she greatly improved. She was a... | |
 | lord Henry Thomas Cockburn - 1872 - 426 pages
...life and when she was probably shrunk, she was not at all " Amazonian." Lady Anne's saying that she " sung a man's song, in a bass voice, and was by many people suspected of being one," and that " she was a droll ingenious fellow," is all very graphic. nautilus in its shell, was a display... | |
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