Rip Van Winkle, and Other SketchesUseful knowledge publishing Company, 1882 - 240 من الصفحات |
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... tell the truth , it is not a whit better than it should be . Its chief merit is its scrupulous accuracy , which , indeed , was a little questioned on its first appearance , but has since been completely established ; and it is now ...
... tell the truth , it is not a whit better than it should be . Its chief merit is its scrupulous accuracy , which , indeed , was a little questioned on its first appearance , but has since been completely established ; and it is now ...
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... tell the precise truth , was sadly time - worn and weather - beaten ) , there lived many years since , while the country was yet a province of Great Britain , a simple , good - natured fellow of the name of Rip Van Winkle . He was a ...
... tell the precise truth , was sadly time - worn and weather - beaten ) , there lived many years since , while the country was yet a province of Great Britain , a simple , good - natured fellow of the name of Rip Van Winkle . He was a ...
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... telling endless sleepy stories about nothing . But it would have been worth any statesman's money to have heard the profound discussions which some- times took place , when by chance an old newspaper fell into their hands from some ...
... telling endless sleepy stories about nothing . But it would have been worth any statesman's money to have heard the profound discussions which some- times took place , when by chance an old newspaper fell into their hands from some ...
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... tell the hour by his movements as accurately as by a sun - dial . It is true , he was rarely heard to speak , but smoked his pipe incessantly . His adherents , however ( for every great man has his adherents ) , perfectly understood him ...
... tell the hour by his movements as accurately as by a sun - dial . It is true , he was rarely heard to speak , but smoked his pipe incessantly . His adherents , however ( for every great man has his adherents ) , perfectly understood him ...
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... tell the truth , Dame Van Winkle had always kept in neat order . It was empty , forlorn , and apparently abandoned . This desolateness overcame all his connubial fears- he called loudly for his wife and children - the lone- ly chambers ...
... tell the truth , Dame Van Winkle had always kept in neat order . It was empty , forlorn , and apparently abandoned . This desolateness overcame all his connubial fears- he called loudly for his wife and children - the lone- ly chambers ...
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الصفحة 23 - Nicholas Vedder?" 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 churchyard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
الصفحة 16 - Their visages, too, were peculiar; one had a large head, broad face, and small piggish eyes; the face of another seemed to consist entirely of nose, and was surmounted by a white sugar-loaf hat, set off with a little red cock's tail. They all had beards, of various shapes and colors. There was one who seemed to be the commander.
الصفحة 23 - 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 Winkle?" "Oh, Rip Van Winkle!" exclaimed two or three, "Oh, to be sure! that's Rip Van Winkle yonder, leaning against...
الصفحة 27 - Rip now resumed his old walks and habits ; he soon found many of his former cronies, though all rather the worse for the wear and tear of time...
الصفحة 26 - 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 Halfmoon ; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and...
الصفحة 7 - When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky ; but sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of...
الصفحة 25 - 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 48 - ... SHE IS FAR FROM THE LAND. SHE is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers are round her sighing ; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying.
الصفحة 22 - 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 !" 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...
الصفحة 12 - When anything that was read or related displeased him, he was observed to smoke his pipe vehemently, and to send forth short, frequent, and angry puffs, but when pleased, he would...