Six Selections from Irving's Sketch-book: With Notes, Questions, Etc. for Home and School UseGinn, 1894 - 119 من الصفحات |
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... neighborhood abounds with local tales , haunted spots , and twilight superstitions ; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country , and the nightmare , with her whole nine fold , seems to ...
... neighborhood abounds with local tales , haunted spots , and twilight superstitions ; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country , and the nightmare , with her whole nine fold , seems to ...
الصفحة 35
... neighborhood , and picked up many bright shillings by instructing the young folks in psalmody . It was a matter of no little vanity to him , on Sundays , to take his station in front of the church gallery , with a band of chosen singers ...
... neighborhood , and picked up many bright shillings by instructing the young folks in psalmody . It was a matter of no little vanity to him , on Sundays , to take his station in front of the church gallery , with a band of chosen singers ...
الصفحة 36
... neighborhood , being considered a kind of idle , gentlemanlike personage , of vastly superior taste and accomplishments to the rough country swains , and , indeed , in- ferior in learning only to the parson . His appearance , therefore ...
... neighborhood , being considered a kind of idle , gentlemanlike personage , of vastly superior taste and accomplishments to the rough country swains , and , indeed , in- ferior in learning only to the parson . His appearance , therefore ...
الصفحة 54
... neighborhood for more than half a century . His instrument 735 709. Higgledy - piggledy , in confusion . 724. Niggardly ( " The habit of attention to minute gains in earning money is closely connected with a careful unwillingness to ...
... neighborhood for more than half a century . His instrument 735 709. Higgledy - piggledy , in confusion . 724. Niggardly ( " The habit of attention to minute gains in earning money is closely connected with a careful unwillingness to ...
الصفحة 55
... neighborhood , stood forming a pyramid of shining black faces at every door and window , gazing with delight at the scene , rolling their white eyeballs , and showing grinning rows of ivory from ear to ear . 750 How could the flogger of ...
... neighborhood , stood forming a pyramid of shining black faces at every door and window , gazing with delight at the scene , rolling their white eyeballs , and showing grinning rows of ivory from ear to ear . 750 How could the flogger of ...
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abbey Baltus Van Tassel Bracebridge Brom Bones brook called chapel Christmas church cloisters clouds Cotton Mather Dame Van Winkle dance distant door Dutch earth Edward the Confessor effigies empire of Death England English 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 memory mind Mizraim monument mother mountain neighborhood neighboring night old gentleman passage passed Peter Stuyvesant poor pupils Rip Van Winkle Rip's round scene school-house schoolmaster seemed Select sentence sepulchre ship side sketch Sleepy Hollow sometimes sound spirit squire steed story strange supple-jack Supt Tassel taste teacher 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 107 - The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me ! " cried Bracebridge, laughing. At the sound of his voice, the bark was changed into a yelp of delight, and in a moment he was surrounded and almost overpowered by the caresses of the faithful animals.
الصفحة 83 - I have observed that he was a simple, good-natured man; he was moreover a kind neighbor, and an obedient henpecked husband. Indeed, to the latter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such universal popularity ; for those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
الصفحة 88 - 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 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 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 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 117 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : % And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
الصفحة 88 - From an opening between the trees he could overlook all the lower country for many a mile of rich woodland. He saw at a distance the lordly Hudson, far, far below him, moving on its silent but majestic course...
الصفحة 93 - At length he reached to where the ravine had opened through the cliffs to the amphitheatre ; but no traces of such opening remained. The rocks presented a high impenetrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad deep basin, black from the shadows of the surrounding forest.