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... hear , Where thou art wrong , after their help to call , Thee to correct in any part or all . " CHAUCER . Ra NEW YORK • : • CINCINNATI CHICAGO AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY Edue T 541,570 , 142 Harvard University , Dept. of ECLECTIC ENGLISH ...
... hear , Where thou art wrong , after their help to call , Thee to correct in any part or all . " CHAUCER . Ra NEW YORK • : • CINCINNATI CHICAGO AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY Edue T 541,570 , 142 Harvard University , Dept. of ECLECTIC ENGLISH ...
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... hear the halloo of any survivors ; but all was silent . We never saw or heard anything of them more . " I confess these stories , for a time , put an end to all my fine fancies . The storm increased with the night . The sea was lashed ...
... hear the halloo of any survivors ; but all was silent . We never saw or heard anything of them more . " I confess these stories , for a time , put an end to all my fine fancies . The storm increased with the night . The sea was lashed ...
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... hear the full choir and the pealing organ performing a Christmas anthem in a cathedral , and filling every part of the vast pile with triumphant harmony . It is a beautiful arrangement , also , derived from days of yore , that this ...
... hear the full choir and the pealing organ performing a Christmas anthem in a cathedral , and filling every part of the vast pile with triumphant harmony . It is a beautiful arrangement , also , derived from days of yore , that this ...
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... hear of one sung in the thirteenth century . It is in the British Museum , and written in Anglo - Norman . 4 Since the days of the ancient Romans , this tree , a species of laurel , the aromatic leaves of which are often found packed ...
... hear of one sung in the thirteenth century . It is in the British Museum , and written in Anglo - Norman . 4 Since the days of the ancient Romans , this tree , a species of laurel , the aromatic leaves of which are often found packed ...
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... hear the 1 Free translation : - " There's a time for hard playing , With nothing to fear . Drop books without delaying- The hour is here . " 2 A northern county of England , famed for the beauty of its river scenery , in which respect ...
... hear the 1 Free translation : - " There's a time for hard playing , With nothing to fear . Drop books without delaying- The hour is here . " 2 A northern county of England , famed for the beauty of its river scenery , in which respect ...
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Abbey ancient antique apri Baltus Van Tassel beauty bosom Bracebridge bridge Brom Bones Catskill Mountains chapel Christmas church clouds countenance custom Dame Van Winkle dance deep delight distant door Dutch Edward the Confessor effigy England fancy farmhouse favorite feel festival fire gathered ghost Gislebertus goblin hall hand haunted head heard heart Henry holiday horse Hudson hung Ichabod Crane Irving IRVING'S NOTE Katrina Van Tassel kind land light looked mansion Master Simon merry Mince Pie mind mingled monument morning mountain neighborhood neighboring night observed old English old gentleman parson passed peacock poor Rip Van Winkle round rustic scene season seemed sepulcher ship side Sleepy Hollow sometimes sound specter spirit Squire steed stood story strange Tarrytown Tassel thee tion tomb trees turned village voice Washington Irving wassail whole wild window young
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الصفحة 143 - 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 140 - 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.
الصفحة 139 - ... 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 147 - ... 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 66 - Just in this nick the cook knock'd thrice, And all the waiters in a trice His summons did obey ; Each serving man, with dish in hand. March'd boldly up, like our...
الصفحة 114 - 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 132 - ... 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 138 - 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 143 - 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 100 - 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, where in his own mind he completely carried away the palm from the parson. Certain it is his voice resounded far above all the rest of the congregation...