Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 285
he afterwardcame to be so ingenious a governor. His name ac-cording to the most authentic etymologists, wasa corruption of Kyver—that is to say, a wrangleror scolder—and expressed the characteristic of hisfamily, which for nearly two centuries had keptthe windy town of Saardam in hot water, and… … Knickekbockers HisTORr of New York 265 versally denominated William the Testy. His ap-pearance answered to his name. He was a brisk,wiry, waspish little old gentleman; such a one asmay now and then be seen stumping about our city
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