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... stood that it was probable they would be published in a collective form . He has been induced , therefore , to revise and bring them for- ward himself , that they may at least come correctly before the pub- lic . Should they be deemed ...
... stood that it was probable they would be published in a collective form . He has been induced , therefore , to revise and bring them for- ward himself , that they may at least come correctly before the pub- lic . Should they be deemed ...
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... stood wringing them in silent agony . - - All now was hurry and bustle . The meetings of acquaint- ances -the greetings of friends the consultations of men of business . I alone was solitary and idle . I had no friend to meet , no ...
... stood wringing them in silent agony . - - All now was hurry and bustle . The meetings of acquaint- ances -the greetings of friends the consultations of men of business . I alone was solitary and idle . I had no friend to meet , no ...
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... stood the Kaatskill moun- tains there ran the silver Hudson at a distance - there was every hill and dale precisely as it had always been -Rip was sorely perplexed- " That flagon last night , " thought he , “ has addled my poor head ...
... stood the Kaatskill moun- tains there ran the silver Hudson at a distance - there was every hill and dale precisely as it had always been -Rip was sorely perplexed- " That flagon last night , " thought he , “ has addled my poor head ...
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... stood amazed , until an old woman , tottering out from among the crowd , put her hand to her brow , and peering under it in his face for a moment , exclaimed , " Sure enough ! it is Rip Van Winkle - it is himself ! Welcome home again ...
... stood amazed , until an old woman , tottering out from among the crowd , put her hand to her brow , and peering under it in his face for a moment , exclaimed , " Sure enough ! it is Rip Van Winkle - it is himself ! Welcome home again ...
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... stood convicted of being an arrant poacher , and was glad to make a precipitate retreat , lest I should have a whole pack of authors let loose upon me . THE COUNTRY CHURCH . A gentleman ! What , o 90 The Sketch - Book .
... stood convicted of being an arrant poacher , and was glad to make a precipitate retreat , lest I should have a whole pack of authors let loose upon me . THE COUNTRY CHURCH . A gentleman ! What , o 90 The Sketch - Book .
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الصفحة 52 - Van Bummel, the schoolmaster?" "He went off to the wars too, was a great militia general, and is now in congress." Rip's heart died away at hearing of these sad changes in his home and friends, and finding himself thus alone in the world. Every answer puzzled him too, by treating of such enormous lapses of time, and of matters which he could not understand: war — congress — Stony Point; — he had no courage to ask after any more friends, but cried out in despair, "Does nobody here know Rip Van...
الصفحة 42 - 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 40 - His children, too, were as ragged and wild as if they belonged to nobody. His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with the old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels, equipped in a pair of his father's cast-off...
الصفحة 54 - 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. That it was affirmed that the great Hendrick Hudson, the first discoverer of the river and country, kept a kind of vigil there every twenty years with his crew of the Half Moon...
الصفحة 214 - Come, bring with a noise, My merry, merry boys, The Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your hearts
الصفحة 41 - Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound.
الصفحة 386 - Some mention was made also of the woman in white, that haunted the dark glen at Raven Rock, and was often heard to shriek on winter nights before a storm, having perished there in the snow. The chief part of the stories, however, turned upon the favorite...
الصفحة 50 - 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 44 - Rip Van Winkle! Rip Van Winkle!" — at the same time Wolf bristled up his back and giving a low growl, skulked to his master's side, looking fearfully down into the glen. Rip now felt a vague apprehension stealing over him; he looked anxiously in the same direction and perceived a strange figure slowly toiling up the rocks and bending under the weight of something he carried on his back. He was surprised to see any human being in this lonely and unfrequented place, but supposing it to be some one...
الصفحة 43 - ... of his wife, was to take gun in hand and stroll away into the woods. Here he would sometimes seat himself at the foot of a tree, and share the contents of his wallet with Wolf, with whom he sympathized as a fellow-sufferer in persecution.