 ... or the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened from their roost. The fireflies, too, which sparkled most vividly in the darkest places, now and then startled him, as one of uncommon brightness would stream across his path; and if...  The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent - الصفحة 322بواسطة Washington Irving - 1823عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 636
...screech-owl ; or the sudden rustling in the thicket ot' hirds frightened from their roost. The tire-flies, too, which sparkled most vividly in the darkest places,...blockhead of a beetle came winging his blundering flight against him, the poor varlet was ready to give up the ghost, with the idea that he was struck with... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 366
...the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm ; the dreary hooting of the screech-owl ; or the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened...blockhead of a beetle came winging his blundering flight against him, the poor varlet was ready to give up the ghost, with the idea that he was struck with... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 804
...; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screech-owl; or the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened...The whip-poor-will is a bird which is only heard at night. It receives its name from its note, which is thought to resemble those words. against him, the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 334
...the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm ; the dreary hooting of the screech-owl ; or the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened...blockhead of a beetle came winging his blundering flight against him, the poor varlet was ready to give up the ghost, with the idea that he was struck with... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 194
...the boding cry of the tree-toad , that harbinger ot 'storm ; the dreary hooting at the screechowl ; or the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened...chance, a huge blockhead of a beetle came winging his blunder-' ing flight against him, the poor varlet was ready to give up the ghost , with the idea that... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 390
...thought to resemble those words. harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the sereech-owl; or the sadden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened from their...blockhead of a beetle came winging his blundering flight against him , the poor varlet was ready to give up the ghost, with the idea that he was struck with... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 1124
...heard at night. It rewives its name from its note, which is thought to resemble those words. tiling in the thicket of birds frightened from their roost....and if, by chance, a huge blockhead of a beetle came Avinging his blundering flight against him, the poor varlet was ready to give up the ghost, with the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 458
...hill-side; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screech-owl; or the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened...the darkest places, now and then startled him, as * The whip-poor-will is a bird which is only heard at night. It receives its name from its note, which... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 518
...; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm ; the dreary hooting of the screech-owl or the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened...blockhead of a beetle came winging his blundering flight against him, the poor varlet was ready to give up the ghost, with the idea that he was struck with... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 478
...; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm ; the dreary hooting of the screech-owl or the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened...blockhead of a beetle came winging his blundering flight against him, the poor varlet was ready to give up the ghost, with the idea that he was struck with... | |
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