The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Volume 1Carey, 1835 |
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... Dame Van Winkle . The children of the village , too , would shout with joy whenever he approached . He assisted at their sports , made their playthings , taught them to fly kites and shoot marbles , and told them long stories of ghosts ...
... Dame Van Winkle . The children of the village , too , would shout with joy whenever he approached . He assisted at their sports , made their playthings , taught them to fly kites and shoot marbles , and told them long stories of ghosts ...
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... Dame Van Winkle regarded them as companions in idleness , and even looked upon Wolf with an evil eye , as the cause of his master's going so often astray . True it is , in all points of spirit befitting an honourable dog , he was . as ...
... Dame Van Winkle regarded them as companions in idleness , and even looked upon Wolf with an evil eye , as the cause of his master's going so often astray . True it is , in all points of spirit befitting an honourable dog , he was . as ...
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Washington Irving. heavy sigh when he thought of encountering the terrors of Dame Van Winkle . As he was about to descend , he heard a voice from a distance , hailooing , " Rip Van Winkle ! Rip Van Winkle ! " He looked around , but could ...
Washington Irving. heavy sigh when he thought of encountering the terrors of Dame Van Winkle . As he was about to descend , he heard a voice from a distance , hailooing , " Rip Van Winkle ! Rip Van Winkle ! " He looked around , but could ...
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... Dame Van Winkle ! " He looked round for his gun , but in place of the clean well - oiled fowling - piece , he found an old firelock lying by him , the barrel encrusted with rust , the lock falling off , and the stock worm - eaten . He ...
... Dame Van Winkle ! " He looked round for his gun , but in place of the clean well - oiled fowling - piece , he found an old firelock lying by him , the barrel encrusted with rust , the lock falling off , and the stock worm - eaten . He ...
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... Dame Van Winkle . " With some difficulty he got down into the glen : he found the gully up which he and his companion had ascended the preceding evening ; but to his astonish- ment a mountain stream was now foaming down it , leaping ...
... Dame Van Winkle . " With some difficulty he got down into the glen : he found the gully up which he and his companion had ascended the preceding evening ; but to his astonish- ment a mountain stream was now foaming down it , leaping ...
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Page 43 - The name of the child, the air of the mother, the tone of her voice, all awakened a train of recollections in his mind. "What is your name, my good woman?
Page 41 - Nicholas Vedder?" There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin, piping voice, "Nicholas Vedder! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There was a wooden tombstone in the churchyard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
Page 34 - ... impending cliffs, and scarcely lighted by the reflected rays of the setting sun. For some time Rip lay musing on this scene; evening was gradually advancing; the mountains began to throw their long blue shadows over the valleys; he saw that it would be dark long before he could reach the village, and he heaved a heavy sigh when he thought of encountering the terrors of Dame Van Winkle. As he was about to descend, he heard a voice from a distance, hallooing, "Rip Van Winkle! Rip Van Winkle!
Page 173 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes ', nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 131 - Lay a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew; Maidens, willow branches bear; Say I died true: My love was false, but I was firm From my hour of birth. Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth!
Page 44 - Half-moon, being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river, and the great city called by his name ; that his father had once seen them in their old Dutch dresses playing at ninepins in a hollow of the mountain ; and that he himself had heard, one summer afternoon, the sound of their balls, like distant peals of thunder.
Page 136 - If thou art a child, and hast ever added a sorrow to the soul, or a furrow to the silvered brow of an affectionate parent; if thou art a husband, and hast ever caused the fond bosom that ventured its whole happiness in thy arms to doubt one moment of thy kindness or thy truth...
Page 36 - What seemed particularly odd to Rip was, that though these folks were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained the gravest faces, the most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling peals of thunder.
Page 33 - When anything that was read or related displeased him, he was observed to smoke his pipe vehemently, and to send forth short, frequent, and angry puffs ; but when pleased, he would...
Page 40 - Instead of the great tree that used to shelter the quiet little Dutch inn of yore, there now was reared a tall naked pole, with something on the top that looked like a red nightcap, and from it was fluttering a flag, on which was a singular assemblage of stars and stripes — all this was strange and incomprehensible.