Rip Van Winkle: And Other American Essays from The Sketch-bookHoughton, Mifflin, 1891 - 99 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 33
... brook glides through it , with just murmur enough to lull one to repose ; and the occasional whistle of a quail or tapping of a woodpecker is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity . I recollect that ...
... brook glides through it , with just murmur enough to lull one to repose ; and the occasional whistle of a quail or tapping of a woodpecker is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity . I recollect that ...
الصفحة 37
... brook running close by , and a formidable birch - tree growing at one end of it . From hence the low murmur of his pupils ' voices , conning over their lessons , might be heard in a drowsy : summer's day , like the hum of a beehive ...
... brook running close by , and a formidable birch - tree growing at one end of it . From hence the low murmur of his pupils ' voices , conning over their lessons , might be heard in a drowsy : summer's day , like the hum of a beehive ...
الصفحة 41
... brook that whimpered by his school - house , and there con over old Mather's direful tales , until the gathering dusk of evening made the printed page a mere mist before his eyes . Then , as he wended his way by swamp and stream and ...
... brook that whimpered by his school - house , and there con over old Mather's direful tales , until the gathering dusk of evening made the printed page a mere mist before his eyes . Then , as he wended his way by swamp and stream and ...
الصفحة 42
... brooks , and haunted bridges , and haunted houses , and particularly of the headless horseman , or Galloping Hessian of the Hol- low , as they sometimes called him . He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft , and of ...
... brooks , and haunted bridges , and haunted houses , and particularly of the headless horseman , or Galloping Hessian of the Hol- low , as they sometimes called him . He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft , and of ...
الصفحة 44
... brook , that babbled along among alders and dwarf willows . Hard by the farmhouse was a vast barn , that might have served for a church ; every window and crevice of which seemed bursting 1 Also known as Zaandam , a town of Holland ...
... brook , that babbled along among alders and dwarf willows . Hard by the farmhouse was a vast barn , that might have served for a church ; every window and crevice of which seemed bursting 1 Also known as Zaandam , a town of Holland ...
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الصفحة 3 - Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
الصفحة 16 - He recollected Rip at once, and corroborated his story in the most satisfactory manner. He assured the company that it was a fact, handed down from his ancestor the historian, that the Kaatskill mountains had always been haunted by strange beings.
الصفحة 1 - 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 11 - WASHINGTON. There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity.
الصفحة 1 - The children of the village, too, would shout with joy whenever he approached. He assisted at their sports, made their playthings, taught them to fly kites and shoot marbles, and told them long stories of ghosts, witches, and Indians. Whenever he went dodging about the village, he was surrounded by a troop of them, hanging on his skirts, clambering on his back, and playing a thousand tricks on him with impunity; and not a dog would bark at him throughout the neighborhood.
الصفحة 11 - ... village. A troop of strange children ran at his heels, hooting after him, and pointing at his gray beard. The dogs, too, not one of which he recognized for an old acquaintance, barked at him as he passed. The very village was altered : it was larger and more populous. There were rows of houses which he had never seen before, and those which had been his familiar haunts had disappeared. Strange names were over the doors, strange faces at the windows : everything was strange.
الصفحة 5 - thy mistress leads thee a dog's life of it ; but never mind, my lad, whilst I live thou shalt never want a friend to stand by thee ! " Wolf would wag his tail, look wistfully in his master's face, and if dogs can feel pity, I verily believe he reciprocated the sentiment with all his heart.
الصفحة 7 - Passing through the ravine, they came to a hollow, like a small amphitheatre, surrounded by perpendicular precipices, over the brinks of which impending trees shot their branches, so that you only caught glimpses of the azure sky and the bright evening cloud.
الصفحة 25 - ... so that though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out : an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eel-pot.
الصفحة vii - At the foot of these fairy mountains, the voyager may have descried the light smoke curling up from a village, whose shingle-roofs gleam among the trees, just where the blue tints of the upland melt away into the fresh green of the nearer landscape.