Little Britain, together with The spectre bridegroom & A legend of Sleepy hollow [from The sketch book] illustr. by C.O. MurraySampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1880 - 176 من الصفحات |
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... - ral of which it is said strange sights are some- times seen . Lords and ladies , the former in full bot- tomed wigs , hang- ing sleeves and swords , the latter in lappets , stays , hoops , and brocade ,. 8 Little Britain .
... - ral of which it is said strange sights are some- times seen . Lords and ladies , the former in full bot- tomed wigs , hang- ing sleeves and swords , the latter in lappets , stays , hoops , and brocade ,. 8 Little Britain .
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... Lord Mayor's Day . During the time of the Fair , which is held in the adjoining regions of Smithfield , there is nothing going on but gossiping and gadding about . The late quiet streets of Little Britain are over- run with an ir-. 22 ...
... Lord Mayor's Day . During the time of the Fair , which is held in the adjoining regions of Smithfield , there is nothing going on but gossiping and gadding about . The late quiet streets of Little Britain are over- run with an ir-. 22 ...
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... Lord Mayor's day is the great anniversary . The Lord Mayor is looked up to by the inhabitants of Little Britain as the greatest potentate upon earth ; his gilt coach with six horses as the summit of human splendour ; and his procession ...
... Lord Mayor's day is the great anniversary . The Lord Mayor is looked up to by the inhabitants of Little Britain as the greatest potentate upon earth ; his gilt coach with six horses as the summit of human splendour ; and his procession ...
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... Lord Mayor : for if he did , heaven and earth ! there is no knowing what might be the consequence . The man in armour who rides before the Lord Mayor and is the city champion , has orders to cut down every body that offends against the ...
... Lord Mayor : for if he did , heaven and earth ! there is no knowing what might be the consequence . The man in armour who rides before the Lord Mayor and is the city champion , has orders to cut down every body that offends against the ...
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Washington Irving. all interior foes ; and as to foreign invasion , the Lord Mayor has but to throw himself into the tower , call in the train bands , and put the standing army of Beef - eaters under arms , and he may bid defiance to the ...
Washington Irving. all interior foes ; and as to foreign invasion , the Lord Mayor has but to throw himself into the tower , call in the train bands , and put the standing army of Beef - eaters under arms , and he may bid defiance to the ...
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Aldersgate Street Back and syde Balt Baltus Van Tassel banquet Baron beheld Bow Church bride bridge Brom Bones brook butcher cakes cavalier chamber church church-yard clattering coquette countenance dance dark daugh daughter dismal door Dutch farm-house favourite fearful fearful pleasure feud Galloping Hessian ghost goblin gossiping guest haunted head headless horseman heard heart horse hour hung Ichabod Crane jokes Katrina Katrina Van Tassel Katzenellenbogen knight-errant LEGEND listen Little Britain looked maiden aunts marvellous marvellous tales ment Miss Lambs mountain mounted neighbourhood neighbouring night Odenwald old Gunpowder passed Penny Whistles poor relations psalm tune pumpkin quadrilles rider Ripper rival road round saddle scene school-house schoolmaster seen side sight Sleepy Hollow song SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM spirit Starkenfaust steed story stranger Sunday syde go tale Tappaan Zee Tassel terror thing trees Trotters turn valley Wagstaff whistle whole window Wurtzburg young lady
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الصفحة 162 - ... of kicks in the ribs, and attempted to dash briskly across the bridge ; but instead of starting forward, the perverse old animal made a lateral movement, and ran broadside against the fence. Ichabod, whose fears increased with the delay, jerked the reins on the other side, and kicked lustily with the contrary foot : it was all in vain ; his steed started, it is true, but it was only to plunge to the opposite side of the road into a thicket of brambles and elder bushes.
الصفحة 119 - Nay, his busy fancy already realized his hopes, and presented to him the blooming Katrina, with a whole family of children, mounted on the top of a waggon loaded with household trumpery, with pots and kettles dangling beneath ; and he beheld himself bestriding a pacing mare, with a colt at her heels, setting out for Kentucky, Tennessee, or the Lord knows where ! 'When he entered the house the conquest of his heart was complete.
الصفحة 105 - With these he lived successively a week at a time; thus going the rounds of the neighbourhood, with all his worldly effects tied up in a cotton handkerchief. That all this might not be too onerous on the purses of his rustic patrons, who are apt to consider the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones, he had various ways of rendering himself both useful and agreeable. He assisted the farmers occasionally in the lighter...
الصفحة 135 - ... he carried his whip perpendicularly in his hand, like a sceptre, and, as his horse jogged on, the motion of his arms was not unlike the flapping of a pair of wings. A small wool hat rested on the top of his nose, for so his scanty strip of forehead might be called; and the skirts of his black coat fluttered out almost to the horse's tail.
الصفحة 96 - Hudson. Certain it is, the place still continues under the sway of some witching power, that holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to walk in a continual reverie. They are given to all kinds of marvellous beliefs ; are subject to trances and visions ; and frequently see strange sights, and hear music and voices in the air.
الصفحة 116 - Sleek unwieldy porkers were grunting in the repose and abundance of their pens ; from whence sallied forth, now and then, troops of sucking pigs, as if to snuff the air. A stately squadron of snowy geese were riding in an adjoining pond...
الصفحة 115 - Hard by the farm-house was a vast barn, that might have served for a church, every window and crevice of which seemed bursting forth with the treasures of the farm.
الصفحة 166 - ... a quarter of a mile, where it crosses the bridge famous in goblin story; and just beyond swells the green knoll on which stands the whitewashed church. As yet the panic of the steed had given his...
الصفحة 116 - ... the air. A stately squadron of snowy geese were riding in an adjoining pond, convoying whole fleets of ducks; regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farmyard, and guinea fowls fretting about it, like illtempered housewives, with their peevish, discontented cry.
الصفحة 91 - A pleasing land of drowsy -head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...