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الصفحة ix
... father , a descendant of an old and honorable Scottish family , from the Orkney Islands ; his mother from Falmouth in Cornwall . The boy grew up under favoring influences . If the father's sense of recti- tude , in which there was much ...
... father , a descendant of an old and honorable Scottish family , from the Orkney Islands ; his mother from Falmouth in Cornwall . The boy grew up under favoring influences . If the father's sense of recti- tude , in which there was much ...
الصفحة xiii
... father and his brothers some mis- givings for his future . He was twenty - four years old , and so far had led a desultory , not to say rather idle life , distinguished chiefly by an aptitude for society . He had acquired , it is true ...
... father and his brothers some mis- givings for his future . He was twenty - four years old , and so far had led a desultory , not to say rather idle life , distinguished chiefly by an aptitude for society . He had acquired , it is true ...
الصفحة 8
... father's poems published in Edinburgh in quarto volumes ; showing the " nigromancy " of the American press , by which a quart of wine is conjured into a pint bottle . Scott observes : " In my hurry , I have not thanked you in Sophia's ...
... father's poems published in Edinburgh in quarto volumes ; showing the " nigromancy " of the American press , by which a quart of wine is conjured into a pint bottle . Scott observes : " In my hurry , I have not thanked you in Sophia's ...
الصفحة 27
... father . He was generally seen troop- ing like a colt at his mother's heels , equipped in a pair of his father's cast - off galligaskins , which he had much ado to hold up with one hand , as a fine lady does her train in 25 bad weather ...
... father . He was generally seen troop- ing like a colt at his mother's heels , equipped in a pair of his father's cast - off galligaskins , which he had much ado to hold up with one hand , as a fine lady does her train in 25 bad weather ...
الصفحة 40
... father's name ? " 66 " What Ah , poor man , Rip Van Winkle was his name , but it's 20 twenty years since he went away from home with his gun , and never has been heard of since - his dog came home without him ; but whether he shot ...
... father's name ? " 66 " What Ah , poor man , Rip Van Winkle was his name , but it's 20 twenty years since he went away from home with his gun , and never has been heard of since - his dog came home without him ; but whether he shot ...
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الصفحة 106 - With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave : thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
الصفحة 25 - ... curl about his nose, would gravely nod his head in token of perfect approbation. From even this stronghold the unlucky Rip was at length routed by his termagant wife, who would suddenly break in upon the tranquillity of the assemblage and call the members all to...
الصفحة 34 - ... 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 he meant to breed a riot in the village. "Alas! gentlemen...
الصفحة 34 - A Tory, a Tory! A spy! A refugee! Hustle him! Away with him!" It was with great difficulty that the self-important man in the cocked hat restored order, and having assumed a tenfold austerity of brow, demanded again of the unknown culprit what he came there for, and whom he was seeking. The poor man humbly assured him that he meant no harm, but merely came there in search of some of his neighbors, who used to keep about the tavern. "Well, who are they? Name them.
الصفحة 364 - His heart began to sink within him ; he endeavored to resume his psalm tune, but his parched tongue clove to the roof of his mouth, and he could not utter a stave. There was something in the moody and dogged silence of this pertinacious companion that was mysterious and appalling. It was soon fearfully accounted for. On mounting a rising ground, which brought the figure of his fellow-traveler in relief against the sky, gigantic in height, and muffled in a cloak, Ichabod was horror-struck, on perceiving...
الصفحة 342 - Hard by the farm-house was a vast barn, that might have served for a church, every window and crevice of which seemed bursting forth with the treasures of the farm.
الصفحة 142 - The very walls are wrought into universal ornament, incrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, by the cunning labor of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and density, suspended aloft, as if by magic, and the fretted roof achieved with the wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb.
الصفحة 29 - 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 36 - The name of the child, the air of the mother, the tone of her voice, all awakened a train of recollections in his mind. "What is your name, my good woman?
الصفحة 23 - 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...