Six Selections from Irving's Sketch-book: With Notes, Questions, Etc., For Home and School UseGinn & Company, 1895 |
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... SLEEPY HOLLOW Questions and Suggestions 27 28 69 THE WIDOW AND HER SON 71 Questions and Suggestions 80 RIP VAN WINKLE 81 Questions and Suggestions 103 CHRISTMAS EVE 104 Questions and Suggestions 118 CHRONOLOGY . 1783. April 3 ...
... SLEEPY HOLLOW Questions and Suggestions 27 28 69 THE WIDOW AND HER SON 71 Questions and Suggestions 80 RIP VAN WINKLE 81 Questions and Suggestions 103 CHRISTMAS EVE 104 Questions and Suggestions 118 CHRONOLOGY . 1783. April 3 ...
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... Sleepy Hollow , afterwards known as Wolfert's Roost , and rechristened Sunnyside . The railroad station near it is now called Irvington , some twenty - five miles from New York . 1836. Astoria : an account of John Jacob Astor's ...
... Sleepy Hollow , afterwards known as Wolfert's Roost , and rechristened Sunnyside . The railroad station near it is now called Irvington , some twenty - five miles from New York . 1836. Astoria : an account of John Jacob Astor's ...
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... substance of the last paragraph in fresh words . What is the general character of this sketch ? Description ? Reason for your answer ? Пошу THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW . FOUND AMONG THE WESTMINSTER ABBEY . 27 Questions and Suggestions.
... substance of the last paragraph in fresh words . What is the general character of this sketch ? Description ? Reason for your answer ? Пошу THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW . FOUND AMONG THE WESTMINSTER ABBEY . 27 Questions and Suggestions.
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... SLEEPY HOLLOW . FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE LATE DIEDRICH KNICKER- BOCKER . " A pleasing land of drowsy head it was , is Of dreams that wave before the half - shut eye ;, And of gay castles in the clouds that pass , Forever flushing ...
... SLEEPY HOLLOW . FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE LATE DIEDRICH KNICKER- BOCKER . " A pleasing land of drowsy head it was , is Of dreams that wave before the half - shut eye ;, And of gay castles in the clouds that pass , Forever flushing ...
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... Sleepy Hollow , and its rustic lads are called the Sleepy Hollow Boys throughout all the neighboring country . A drowsy , dreamy influence seems to hang over the land , and 35 to pervade the very atmosphere . Some say that the place was ...
... Sleepy Hollow , and its rustic lads are called the Sleepy Hollow Boys throughout all the neighboring country . A drowsy , dreamy influence seems to hang over the land , and 35 to pervade the very atmosphere . Some say that the place was ...
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50 cents abbey Baltus Van Tassel Boards Book Bracebridge Brom Bones brook called chapel Christmas church cloisters Cloth clouds Dame Van Winkle dance distant door Dutch earth Edward the Confessor effigies empire of Death England farmhouse favorite funeral George Somers ghosts goblin Gothic grave hatchment haunted head heard heart Hessian horse horseman Hudson humorous Ichabod Crane idle Irving Irving's kind Knight-errant land looked mind Mizraim monument mother mountain Music neighborhood neighboring night old gentleman passage passed Peter Stuyvesant poor pupils Reader Rip Van Winkle Rip's round scene school-house schoolmaster seemed sentence sepulchre ship side sketch Sleepy Hollow sometimes sound spirit squire steed story strange supple-jack Tassel thee thought tion tomb trees turned urchins village voice voyage walls wandering Westminster Abbey whistle whole wild wind woman words York Yule clog
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الصفحة 84 - It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble.
الصفحة 32 - The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew.
الصفحة 100 - It was some time before he could get into the regular track of gossip, or could be made to comprehend the strange events that had taken place during his torpor. How that there had...
الصفحة 98 - The name of the child, the air of the mother, the tone of her voice, all awakened a train of recollections in his mind. "What is your name, my good woman?
الصفحة 92 - ... robbed him of his gun. Wolf, too, had disappeared, but he might have strayed away after a squirrel or partridge. He whistled after him and shouted his name, but all in vain; the echoes repeated his whistle and shout, but no dog was to be seen.
الصفحة 99 - There was a drop of comfort, at least, in this intelligence. The honest man could contain himself no longer. He caught his daughter and her child in his arms. "I am your father!" cried he— "Young Rip Van Winkle once— old Rip Van Winkle now! Does nobody know poor Rip Van Winkle?
الصفحة 82 - Mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height and lording it over the surrounding country. Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers.
الصفحة 96 - Rip was equally at a loss to comprehend the question, when a knowing, self-important old gentleman in a sharp cocked hat made his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and left with his elbows as he passed, and planting himself before Van Winkle with one arm akimbo, the other resting on his cane, his keen eyes and sharp hat penetrating, as it were, into his very soul, demanded in an austere tone what brought him to the election with a gun on his shoulder and a mob at his heels, and whether...
الصفحة 82 - 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 88 - He was after his favorite sport of squirrel shooting, and the still solitudes had echoed and re-echoed with the reports of his gun. Panting and fatigued, he threw himself, late in the afternoon, on a green knoll, covered with mountain herbage, that crowned the brow of a precipice.