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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... spirit ran very high at one time in consequence of two rival " Burial Societies " being set up in the place . One held its meeting at the Swan and Horse Shoe , and was patronized by the cheese- monger ; the other at the Cock and Crown ...
... spirit ran very high at one time in consequence of two rival " Burial Societies " being set up in the place . One held its meeting at the Swan and Horse Shoe , and was patronized by the cheese- monger ; the other at the Cock and Crown ...
الصفحة 26
... spirit of harmony that prevailed throughout it ; for though there might now and then be a few clashes of opinion between the adherents of the cheesemonger and the apothecary , and an occasional feud between the burial societies , yet ...
... spirit of harmony that prevailed throughout it ; for though there might now and then be a few clashes of opinion between the adherents of the cheesemonger and the apothecary , and an occasional feud between the burial societies , yet ...
الصفحة 58
... spirit of German hospitality -- but the guest delayed to make his appearance . Hourrolled after hour . The sun that had poured his downward rays upon the rich forests of the Odenwald , now just gleam- ed along the summits of the ...
... spirit of German hospitality -- but the guest delayed to make his appearance . Hourrolled after hour . The sun that had poured his downward rays upon the rich forests of the Odenwald , now just gleam- ed along the summits of the ...
الصفحة 74
... spirits were infected ; whispers and glances were interchanged , accompanied by shrugs and dubious shakes of the head . The song and the laugh grew less and less frequent ; there were dreary pauses in the conversation , which were at ...
... spirits were infected ; whispers and glances were interchanged , accompanied by shrugs and dubious shakes of the head . The song and the laugh grew less and less frequent ; there were dreary pauses in the conversation , which were at ...
الصفحة 77
... spirit , “ but not until to - morrow - to - morrow you shall take your bride there . " " No ! no ! " replied the stranger , with tenfold solem- nity , " my engagement is with no bride - the worms ! the worms expect me ! I am a dead man ...
... spirit , “ but not until to - morrow - to - morrow you shall take your bride there . " " No ! no ! " replied the stranger , with tenfold solem- nity , " my engagement is with no bride - the worms ! the worms expect me ! I am a dead man ...
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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...