Legends of Terror!: And Tales of the Wonderful and Wild ; Original and Select, in Prose and VerseSherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1826 - 642 من الصفحات |
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... steps to the table where the lady was station- ed . She did not at first perceive it , till she felt a death - cold hand fast grasped in her own , and heard a solemn voice whisper in her ear , " Clotilda . " She looked up , a dark ...
... steps to the table where the lady was station- ed . She did not at first perceive it , till she felt a death - cold hand fast grasped in her own , and heard a solemn voice whisper in her ear , " Clotilda . " She looked up , a dark ...
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... step they took was on a dead body ; and the bleached bones rattled horribly beneath their feet . In the centre of the vault rose a heap of unburied skeletons , whereon was seated a figure too awful even for the darkest imagination to ...
... step they took was on a dead body ; and the bleached bones rattled horribly beneath their feet . In the centre of the vault rose a heap of unburied skeletons , whereon was seated a figure too awful even for the darkest imagination to ...
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... step entering the church- yard behind him . He looked up , and saw a lovely girl gliding among the grave - hillocks with a basket of flowers her neck , as a token of remembrance received from LEGENDS OF TERROR . Hans Heiling Rocks, a ...
... step entering the church- yard behind him . He looked up , and saw a lovely girl gliding among the grave - hillocks with a basket of flowers her neck , as a token of remembrance received from LEGENDS OF TERROR . Hans Heiling Rocks, a ...
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... steps towards the church- yard , in order to pay a parting visit to his father's grave . - Elsbeth , who had , through the door , partially overheard the conversation , sat drowned in tears . She had indulged in dreams of future bliss ...
... steps towards the church- yard , in order to pay a parting visit to his father's grave . - Elsbeth , who had , through the door , partially overheard the conversation , sat drowned in tears . She had indulged in dreams of future bliss ...
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... steps approach the door . She flew to open it , and her eye fixed on vacancy alone , while she shed bitter tears at the disappointment . Another and another night elapsed ; Albert came not ; and Josephine's anguish and suspense be- came ...
... steps approach the door . She flew to open it , and her eye fixed on vacancy alone , while she shed bitter tears at the disappointment . Another and another night elapsed ; Albert came not ; and Josephine's anguish and suspense be- came ...
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الصفحة 601 - 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 604 - He now suspected that the grave roysters of the mountain had put a trick upon him, and, having dosed him with liquor, had robbed him of his gun. Wolf, too, had disappeared; but he might have strayed away after a squirrel or partridge. He whistled after him, and shouted his name, but all in vain; the echoes repeated his whistle and shout, but no dog was to be seen.
الصفحة 603 - 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 of the neighborhood in need of his assistance, he hastened down to yield it.
الصفحة 605 - He found the house gone to decay - the roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. A half-starved dog that looked like Wolf was skulking about it. Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed. 'My very dog,' sighed poor Rip, 'has forgotten me!
الصفحة 601 - 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 608 - Half-moon ; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes, of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river and the great city called by his name; that his father had once seen them in their old Dutch dresses playing at ninepins in...
الصفحة 605 - These mountain beds do not agree with me," thought Rip, " and if this frolic should lay me up with a fit of the rheumatism, I shall have a blessed time with Dame Van Winkle." With some difficulty he got down into the glen : he found the gully up which he and his companion had ascended the preceding evening ; but to his astonishment a mountain stream was now foaming down it, leaping from rock to rock, and filling the glen with babbling murmurs. He, however, made shift to scramble up its sides, working...
الصفحة 603 - On nearer approach he was still more surprised at the singularity of the stranger's appearance. He was a short, square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard.
الصفحة 600 - 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.
الصفحة 607 - 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?