The Elements of the Short StoryEdward Everett Hale (Jr.), Fredrick Thomas Dawson H. Holt and Company, 1915 - 294 من الصفحات |
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... door , and stakes set against the window shutters ; so that though a thief might get in with perfect ease , he would find some embarrassment in getting 10 out ; an idea most probably borrowed by the architect , Yost Van Houten , from ...
... door , and stakes set against the window shutters ; so that though a thief might get in with perfect ease , he would find some embarrassment in getting 10 out ; an idea most probably borrowed by the architect , Yost Van Houten , from ...
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... doors of an evening , were often filled with awe , at hearing his nasal 10 melody , " in linked sweetness long drawn out , " floating from the distant hill , or along the dusky road . Another of his sources of fearful pleasure was , to ...
... doors of an evening , were often filled with awe , at hearing his nasal 10 melody , " in linked sweetness long drawn out , " floating from the distant hill , or along the dusky road . Another of his sources of fearful pleasure was , to ...
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... door strutted the gallant cock , that pattern of a husband , a warrior , 5 and a fine gentleman ; clapping his burnished wings and crowing in the pride and gladness of his heart - sometimes tearing up the earth with his feet , and then ...
... door strutted the gallant cock , that pattern of a husband , a warrior , 5 and a fine gentleman ; clapping his burnished wings and crowing in the pride and gladness of his heart - sometimes tearing up the earth with his feet , and then ...
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... door left ajar , gave him a peep into the best parlor , where the 30 claw - footed chairs , and dark mahogany tables , shone like mirrors ; andirons , with their accompanying shovel and tongs , glistened from their covert of asparagus ...
... door left ajar , gave him a peep into the best parlor , where the 30 claw - footed chairs , and dark mahogany tables , shone like mirrors ; andirons , with their accompanying shovel and tongs , glistened from their covert of asparagus ...
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... door of access ; while others have a thousand avenues , and may be captured in a thousand different 15 ways . It is a great triumph of skill to gain the former , but a still greater proof of generalship to maintain possession of the ...
... door of access ; while others have a thousand avenues , and may be captured in a thousand different 15 ways . It is a great triumph of skill to gain the former , but a still greater proof of generalship to maintain possession of the ...
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الصفحة 62 - He now hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn, but it too was gone. A large rickety wooden building stood in its place, with great gaping windows, some of them broken and mended with old hats and petticoats, and over the door was painted, " The Union Hotel, by Jonathan Doolittle.
الصفحة 139 - ... Feeble gleams of encrimsoned light made their way through the trellised panes, and served to render sufficiently distinct the more prominent objects around ; the eye, however, struggled in vain to reach the remoter angles of the chamber, or the recesses of the vaulted and fretted ceiling. Dark draperies hung upon the walls. The general furniture was profuse, comfortless, antique, and tattered. Many books and musical instruments lay scattered about, but failed to give any vitality to the scene....
الصفحة 135 - During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
الصفحة 68 - Some always pretended to doubt the reality of it, and insisted that Rip had been out of his head, and that this was one point on which h'e always remained flighty.
الصفحة 17 - ... as one of her father's peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but her vast expectations. She was withal a little of a coquette, as might be perceived even in her dress, which was a mixture of ancient and modern fashions, as most suited to set off her charms. She wore the ornaments of pure yellow gold which her greatgreat-grandmother had brought over from Saardam, the tempting stomacher of the olden time, and withal a provokingly short petticoat to display the prettiest foot...
الصفحة 61 - ... round. Their dress, too, was of a different fashion from that to which he was accustomed. They all stared at him with equal marks of surprise, and whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence...
الصفحة 61 - ... barked at him as he passed. The very village was altered; it was larger and more populous. There were rows of houses which he had never seen before, and those which had been his familiar haunts had disappeared. Strange names were over the doors — strange faces at the windows — everything was strange.
الصفحة 55 - ... curl about his nose, would gravely nod his head in token of perfect approbation. From even this strong-hold the unlucky Rip was at length routed...
الصفحة 54 - Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on ; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
الصفحة 154 - Here again I paused abruptly, and now with a feeling of wild amazement; for there could be no doubt whatever that in this instance I did actually hear (although from what direction it proceeded, I found it impossible to say) a low and apparently distant, but harsh, protracted, and most unusual screaming or grating sound, — the exact counterpart of what my fancy had already conjured up for the dragon's unnatural shriek as described by the romancer. Oppressed as I certainly was, upon the occurrence...