 The servants tugged with might and main, but could not lift this enormous receptacle, and were finally obliged to drag it across the floor. Captain Hull then took a key from his girdle, unlocked the chest, and lifted its ponderous lid. Behold! it was...  Stories of Our Country - 80. oldal1887 - 206 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1842 - 158 oldal
...servants tugged with might and main, but could not lift this enormous receptacle, and were finally obliged to drag it across the floor. Captain Hull...possession of all the money in the Massachusetts treasury. But it was only the mint-master's honest share of the coinage. Then the servants, at Captain Hull's... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1851 - 316 oldal
...servants tugged with might and main, but could not lift this enormous receptacle, and were finally obliged to drag it across the floor. Captain Hull...possession of all the money in the Massachusetts treasury. But it was only the mint-master's honest share of the coinage. Then the servants, at Captain Hull's... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1857 - 372 oldal
...servants tugged with might and main, but could not lift this enormous receptacle, and were finally obliged to drag it across the floor. Captain Hull...possession of all the money in the Massachusetts treasury. But it was only the mintmaster's honest share of the coinage. jingle, went the shillings, as handful... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 348 oldal
...servants tugged with might and main, but could not lift this enormous receptacle, and were finally obliged to drag it across the floor. Captain Hull...ponderous lid. Behold, it was full to the brim of bright pine tree shillings, fresh from the mint ; and Samuel Sewell began to think that his father-inlaw had... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 390 oldal
...could not lift this enormous receptacle", and were finally obliged to drag it across the floor. 15. Captain Hull then took a key from his girdle, unlocked...ponderous lid. Behold, it was full to the brim of bright pine tree shillings, fresh from the mint ; and Samuel Sewell began to think that his father-in-law... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1866 - 372 oldal
...servants tugged with might and main, but could not lift this enormous receptacle, and were finally obliged to drag it across the floor. Captain Hull...possession of all the money in the Massachusetts treasury. But it was only the mintmaster's honest share of the coinage. Then the servants, at Captain Hull's... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1866 - 412 oldal
...could not lift this enormous receptacle, and were finally obliged to drag it across the floor. 15. Captain Hull then took a key from his girdle, unlocked...possession of all the money in the Massachusetts' treasury. But it was only the mint-master's honest share of the coinage. 16. Then the servants, at Captain Hull's... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1868 - 314 oldal
...could not lift this enormous receptacle,' and were finally obliged to drag it acr6ss the floor. 14. Captain Hull then took a key from his girdle, unlocked...possession of all the money in the Massachusetts treasury. But it was only the mint-master's honest share of the coinage. 15. Then the servants, at Captain Hull's... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1869 - 420 oldal
...could not lift this enormous receptacle, and were finally obliged to drag it across the floor. 15. Captain Hull then took a key from his girdle, unlocked the chest, and lifted its ponderous lid. Behold ! if was full to the brim of briyht pine-tree shillings, fresh from the mint ; and Samuel Sewell began... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1872 - 322 oldal
...servants tugged with might and main, but could not lift this enormous receptacle, and were finally obliged to drag it across the floor. Captain Hull...possession of all the money in the Massachusetts treasury. But it was only the mint-master's honest share of the coinage. Then the servants, at Captain Hull's... | |
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