Dolph Heyliger: A Story from Bracebridge HallD.C. Heath & Company, 1901 - 113 من الصفحات |
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... heard all that Peter de Groodt had to say in favor of the youthful candidate ; and then , wetting his thumb with the end of his tongue , he began deliberately to turn over page after page of the great black volume before him . At length ...
... heard all that Peter de Groodt had to say in favor of the youthful candidate ; and then , wetting his thumb with the end of his tongue , he began deliberately to turn over page after page of the great black volume before him . At length ...
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... heard them scrabbling down the avenue , till the sound of their feet was lost in the distance . That he did not join in this precipitate retreat , might have been owing to his possessing a little more courage than his companions , or ...
... heard them scrabbling down the avenue , till the sound of their feet was lost in the distance . That he did not join in this precipitate retreat , might have been owing to his possessing a little more courage than his companions , or ...
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... heard a sound as of some one walking below stairs . He listened , and distinctly heard a step on the great staircase . It approached solemnly and slowly , tramp - tramp tramp ! It was evidently the tread of some heavy personage ; and ...
... heard a sound as of some one walking below stairs . He listened , and distinctly heard a step on the great staircase . It approached solemnly and slowly , tramp - tramp tramp ! It was evidently the tread of some heavy personage ; and ...
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... heard ; but he was a little puzzled to find the door of his room locked on the inside , notwithstanding that he had positively seen it swing open as the footsteps had entered . He returned to town in a state of considerable perplexity ...
... heard ; but he was a little puzzled to find the door of his room locked on the inside , notwithstanding that he had positively seen it swing open as the footsteps had entered . He returned to town in a state of considerable perplexity ...
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... heard about this building ; and as he looked at this strange personage , with his uncouth garb , his pale visage , his griz- zly beard , and his fixed , staring , fish - like eye , his teeth began to chatter , his hair to rise on his ...
... heard about this building ; and as he looked at this strange personage , with his uncouth garb , his pale visage , his griz- zly beard , and his fixed , staring , fish - like eye , his teeth began to chatter , his hair to rise on his ...
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الصفحة 113 - When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky ; but sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory.
الصفحة 111 - The houses of the higher class were generally constructed of wood, excepting the gable end, which was of small black and yellow Dutch bricks, and always faced on the street, as our ancestors, like their descendants, were very much given to outward show, and were noted for putting the best leg foremost. The house was always furnished with abundance of large doors and small windows on every floor, the date of its erection was curiously...
الصفحة 40 - ... about it ; while beyond, mountain succeeded to mountain, until they seemed to lock their arms together, and confine this mighty river in their embraces. There was a feeling of quiet luxury in gazing at the broad, green bosoms...
الصفحة 66 - Weehawk, and even down as far as Hoboken ; and her appearance was supposed to be ominous of the approaching squall in public affairs, and the downfall of Dutch domination. Since that time, we have no authentic accounts of her; though it is said she still haunts the highlands and cruises about Point-no-point. People who live along the river, insist that they sometimes see her in summer moonlight ; and that in a deep still midnight, they have heard the chant of her crew, as if heaving the lead...
الصفحة 108 - In his council he presided with great state and solemnity. He sat in a huge chair of solid oak, hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague, fabricated by an experienced timmerman of Amsterdam, and curiously carved about the arms and feet, into exact imitations of gigantic eagle's claws.
الصفحة 68 - Nose ; and that, at such times, the hurry-scurry of the storm was always greatest. One time a sloop, in passing by the Dunderberg, was overtaken by a thunder-gust, that came scouring round the mountain, and seemed to burst just over the vessel. Though tight and well ballasted, yet she laboured dreadfully, until the water came over the gunwale.
الصفحة 60 - The shot seemed absolutely to pass through the ship, and to skip along the water on the other side, but no notice was taken of it ! What was strange, she had all her sails set, and sailed right against wind and tide, which were both down the river. Upon this Hans Van Pelt, who was likewise...
الصفحة 59 - The evening sun gilded her bellying canvas, as she came riding over the long waving billows. The sentinel who had given notice of her approach, declared, that he first got sight of her when she was in the centre of the bay ; and that she broke suddenly on his sight, just as if she had come out of the bosom of the black thunder-cloud.
الصفحة 110 - Yon shadowy bark hath been to that wreck, And the dim blue fire, that lights her deck, Doth play on as pale and livid a crew As ever yet drank the churchyard dew. To...