Essays from the Sketch BookHoughton Mifflin Company, 1891 |
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... carried on a trading business with the old country . His own tastes were not mercantile , and he was only silent partner in the house ; he wrote occasionally and was for a time the editor of a mag- azine , but his pleasure was chiefly ...
... carried on a trading business with the old country . His own tastes were not mercantile , and he was only silent partner in the house ; he wrote occasionally and was for a time the editor of a mag- azine , but his pleasure was chiefly ...
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... carry a fowl- ing - picce on his shoulder for hours together , trudging through woods and swamps , and up hill and down dale , to shoot a few squirrels or wild pigeons . He would never refuse to assist a neighbor , even in the roughest ...
... carry a fowl- ing - picce on his shoulder for hours together , trudging through woods and swamps , and up hill and down dale , to shoot a few squirrels or wild pigeons . He would never refuse to assist a neighbor , even in the roughest ...
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... 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 of the neighborhood in need of his assistance , he hastened down to yield it . On nearer approach 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 of the neighborhood in need of his assistance , he hastened down to yield it . On nearer approach he ...
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... carrying a keg of liquor up this wild mountain , yet there was something strange and incomprehensible about the unknown , that inspired awe and checked familiarity . On entering the amphitheatre , new objects of wonder presented ...
... carrying a keg of liquor up this wild mountain , yet there was something strange and incomprehensible about the unknown , that inspired awe and checked familiarity . On entering the amphitheatre , new objects of wonder presented ...
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... carried away by the Indians , nobody can tell . I was then but a little girl . " Rip had but one question more to ask ; and he put it with a faltering voice : - " Where's your mother ? " " Oh , she 26 WASHINGTON IRVING .
... carried away by the Indians , nobody can tell . I was then but a little girl . " Rip had but one question more to ask ; and he put it with a faltering voice : - " Where's your mother ? " " Oh , she 26 WASHINGTON IRVING .
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الصفحة 24 - 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 he meant to breed a riot in the village. "Alas! gentlemen...
الصفحة 13 - 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 26 - Vanderdonk. 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 12 - ... of him. His fences were continually falling to pieces ; his cow would either go astray, or get among the cabbages ; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than...
الصفحة 19 - On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes — it was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft, and breasting the pure mountain breeze. "Surely," thought Rip, "I have not slept here all night.
الصفحة 11 - 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 - 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 22 - 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 28 - ... this was one point on which he always remained flighty. The old Dutch inhabitants, however, almost universally gave it full credit. Even to this day they never hear a thunder-storm of a summer afternoon about the Kaatskill, but they say Hendrick Hudson and his crew are at their game of ninepins ; and it is a common wish of all hen-pecked husbands in the neighborhood, when life hangs heavy on their hands, that they might have a quieting draught out of Rip Van Winkle's flagon.
الصفحة 9 - 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.