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Diedrich Knickerbocker was a native of New-York, a descendant from one of the ancient Dutch families which originally settled that province, and remained there after it was taken possession of by the English in 1664.
The cigarette was still burning in the corner of her lips. "I decline," she said, "to throw away my cigarette for any one." "Least of all, I trust," a familiar voice interposed, "for me." Philippa sat upright at once, smoothed her hair and looked a little resentfully at Lessingham. He was wearing a brown tweed knickerbocker suit, and he carried a gun under his arm.
His own regular force was also mainly composed of Americans, although it contained many Englishmen. They were both New York loyalists, members of old Knickerbocker families; for in New York many of the gentry and merchants stood by the king. Ferguson Approaches the Mountains.
And he rushed out, and the children heard his boots going weightily along the pavement, and the screams also going along, rather ahead of the policeman; and both the murder-screams and the policeman's boots faded away in the remote distance. Then Robert smacked his knickerbocker loudly with his palm, and said 'Good old Phoenix! I should know its golden voice anywhere.
But the little girl was so interested in Mr. Dederich Knickerbocker which she was reading aloud to her father that changes hardly mattered. Early in December Mr. Frederic Underhill with his wife and daughter came to hand. He was thin and stooped a good deal, and looked older than Uncle David. Aunt Crete's name was Lucretia, and the little girl was amazed to learn that.
A majority of the Assyrian survivors seemed to have elected to stop at the Knickerbocker. One after another Lanyard, scanning the entries, found these names: Edmund O'Reilly Detroit Arturo Velasco Buenos Aires Bartlett Putnam Philadelphia Cecelia Brooke London Emil Dressier Geneve
The club, he knew, would be most happy to make him a member. A delegation from the Knickerbocker represented their club as the most cosy place imaginable; as for the members, they had so strong a turn for literature, that they had elected a grocer for president, and an actor for secretary.
DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER, Sir, was one of my earliest and most valued friends, and the recollection of him is associated with some of the pleasantest scenes of my youthful days. To explain this, and to show how I came into possession of sundry of his posthumous works, which I have from time to time given to the world, permit me to relate a few particulars of our early intercourse.
Indeed, had it not been for the historic industry of the erudite Diedrich Knickerbocker, very few of her sons would know much about the obligations of their nursing mother to their old grandame beyond sea, in the days of the Dutch dynasty.
Socks, according to taste very few knickerbocker stockings need be taken, as putties are cheap and usual in Srinagar. Ties the white ones of the cheap sort that can be thrown away after use, with a light heart. Handkerchiefs, and a few pairs of white gloves. Sleeping-suits, both thick for camp work and light for hot weather, should be taken. Dress suit and dinner-jacket.
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