Ten Selections from the Sketch-bookAmerican book Company, 1892 - 149 من الصفحات |
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... ships , bound to distant climes ! With what longing eyes would I gaze after their lessening sails , and waft myself in imagination to the ends of the earth ! Further reading and thinking , though they brought this vague inclination into ...
... ships , bound to distant climes ! With what longing eyes would I gaze after their lessening sails , and waft myself in imagination to the ends of the earth ! Further reading and thinking , though they brought this vague inclination into ...
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... Ships , ships , I will descrie you Amidst the main , I will come and try you , One goes What you are protecting , And projecting , What's your end and aim . abroad for merchandise and trading , Another stays to keep his country from ...
... Ships , ships , I will descrie you Amidst the main , I will come and try you , One goes What you are protecting , And projecting , What's your end and aim . abroad for merchandise and trading , Another stays to keep his country from ...
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... ship ; the grampus , slowly heaving his huge form above the surface ; or the ravenous shark , darting , like a specter , through the blue waters . My imagination would conjure up all that I had heard or read of the watery world be ...
... ship ; the grampus , slowly heaving his huge form above the surface ; or the ravenous shark , darting , like a specter , through the blue waters . My imagination would conjure up all that I had heard or read of the watery world be ...
الصفحة 19
... ship that must have been completely wrecked ; for there were the remains of handkerchiefs , by which some of the crew had fastened themselves to this spar , to prevent their being washed off by the waves . There was no trace by which ...
... ship that must have been completely wrecked ; for there were the remains of handkerchiefs , by which some of the crew had fastened themselves to this spar , to prevent their being washed off by the waves . There was no trace by which ...
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... ship . I kept lights at the mast - head , and a constant watch for- ward to look out for fishing - smacks , which are accustomed to lie at anchor on the Banks . The wind was blowing a smacking breeze , and we were going at a great rate ...
... ship . I kept lights at the mast - head , and a constant watch for- ward to look out for fishing - smacks , which are accustomed to lie at anchor on the Banks . The wind was blowing a smacking breeze , and we were going at a great rate ...
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الصفحة 141 - There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin piping voice, "Nicholas Vedder! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There was a wooden tombstone in the church-yard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
الصفحة 141 - The orator bustled up to him, and, drawing him partly aside, inquired " on which side he voted ?" Rip stared in vacant stupidity. Another short but busy little fellow pulled him by the arm, and, rising on tiptoe, inquired in his ear, " Whether he was Federal or Democrat...
الصفحة 144 - She had a snug, wellfurnished house, and a stout, cheery farmer for a husband, whom Rip recollected for one of the urchins that used to climb upon his back. As to Rip's son and heir, who was the ditto of himself, seen leaning against the tree...
الصفحة 137 - ... of excellent Hollands. He was naturally a thirsty soul, and was soon tempted to repeat the draught. One taste provoked another, and he reiterated his visits to the flagon so often that at length his senses were overpowered, his eyes swam in his head, his head gradually declined, and he fell into a deep sleep.
الصفحة 145 - ... husband, whom Rip recollected for one of the urchins that used to climb upon his back. As to Rip's son and heir, who was the ditto of himself, seen leaning against the tree, he was employed to work on the farm; but evinced an hereditary disposition to attend to anything else but his business.
الصفحة 112 - It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day ; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet. Streaming files of wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory...
الصفحة 130 - ... those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant and malleable in the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation, and a curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering.
الصفحة 136 - There was one who seemed to be the commander. He was a stout old gentleman, with a weather-beaten countenance; he wore a laced doublet, broad belt and hanger, high-crowned hat and feather, red stockings, and high-heeled shoes, with roses in them. The whole group reminded Rip of the figures in an old Flemish painting, in the parlor of Dominie Van Shaick, the village parson, and which had been brought over from Holland at the time of the settlement.
الصفحة 141 - Alas! Gentlemen," cried Rip, somewhat dismayed, "I am a poor, quiet man, a native of the place, and a loyal subject of the king. God bless him!" Here a general shout burst from the bystanders. "A tory! A tory! A spy! A refugee! Hustle him! Away with him!
الصفحة 128 - WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill 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.