Author: Year
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Year Nine: a Tale of the Tyrol. By the Author of "Mary Powell" I.e. Anne Manning
The Year Nine
The Year Nine
The Year Nine: A Tale of the Tyrol
Author: Anne Manning
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465553886
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
It was dusk; and the mountains were reverberating with loud thunder-claps, while the rain helped to swell a turbid river that swept through the valley, and past the door of a small wirth-haus or inn, known less by its sign of "The Crown," than as "am Sand," by reason of the strip of sand on which it was built. A cheerful looking, comely woman, clad in a superabundance of woollen petticoats, was busy at the stove, cooking the supper of a foot-traveller who read a crumpled newspaper at the window; while surrounding the kitchen-table, three or four peasants, who had been driven in by the rain, were hungrily supping milk-porridge from a large bowl common to them all. A pretty girl of sixteen, after adding to their meal a basket of coarse rye-cakes, spread a small table for the stranger, who, as soon as his supper was served, fell upon it with avidity. His hostess, meanwhile, retired to the end of the kitchen, where there was a great meal-bin, and began to set the bread for the morrow's baking, closely watched, all the time, by two little girls with long braids of hair hanging down their backs. "The thunder still rumbles," said a man who was quietly smoking near the stove. He was about forty years of age; his person was strong and manly, with slightly rounded shoulders; his full, dark eyes beamed with gentleness; his clustering, deep brown hair fell low on his broad forehead, and continued round his face in a beard that became coal-black towards the chin. He looked kind and enduring rather than impetuous, and not unaptly represented the image of strength in repose. He wore a close-fitting grass-green coat over a scarlet waistcoat, on which hung a rosary and crucifix between his green, embroidered braces; black knee-breeches, scarlet stockings, and laced half-boots. The quiet self-possession of his manner bespoke him the wirth, or master of the inn.
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465553886
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
It was dusk; and the mountains were reverberating with loud thunder-claps, while the rain helped to swell a turbid river that swept through the valley, and past the door of a small wirth-haus or inn, known less by its sign of "The Crown," than as "am Sand," by reason of the strip of sand on which it was built. A cheerful looking, comely woman, clad in a superabundance of woollen petticoats, was busy at the stove, cooking the supper of a foot-traveller who read a crumpled newspaper at the window; while surrounding the kitchen-table, three or four peasants, who had been driven in by the rain, were hungrily supping milk-porridge from a large bowl common to them all. A pretty girl of sixteen, after adding to their meal a basket of coarse rye-cakes, spread a small table for the stranger, who, as soon as his supper was served, fell upon it with avidity. His hostess, meanwhile, retired to the end of the kitchen, where there was a great meal-bin, and began to set the bread for the morrow's baking, closely watched, all the time, by two little girls with long braids of hair hanging down their backs. "The thunder still rumbles," said a man who was quietly smoking near the stove. He was about forty years of age; his person was strong and manly, with slightly rounded shoulders; his full, dark eyes beamed with gentleness; his clustering, deep brown hair fell low on his broad forehead, and continued round his face in a beard that became coal-black towards the chin. He looked kind and enduring rather than impetuous, and not unaptly represented the image of strength in repose. He wore a close-fitting grass-green coat over a scarlet waistcoat, on which hung a rosary and crucifix between his green, embroidered braces; black knee-breeches, scarlet stockings, and laced half-boots. The quiet self-possession of his manner bespoke him the wirth, or master of the inn.
YEAR 9
Author: Anne 1807-1879 Manning
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781371161026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781371161026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Old Chelsea Bun-House. A tale of the last century. By the author of "Mary Powell" i.e. Anne Manning
The colloquies of Edward Osborne, citizen and clothworker, of London, as reported [or rather, written] by ye authour of 'Mary Powell'.
Author: Edward OSBORNE (pseud. [i.e. Miss Anne Manning.])
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Year Nine
Author: Anne Manning
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375155433
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1858.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375155433
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1858.