Rip Van Winkle, and Other SketchesUseful knowledge publishing Company, 1882 - 240 من الصفحات |
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... mountains like rumbling peals of thunder . As Rip and his companion approached them , they suddenly desisted from their play , and stared at him with such a fixed statue - like gaze , and such strange , uncouth , lack - luster ...
... mountains like rumbling peals of thunder . As Rip and his companion approached them , they suddenly desisted from their play , and stared at him with such a fixed statue - like gaze , and such strange , uncouth , lack - luster ...
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... mountain breeze . " Surely , " thought Rip , " I have not slept here all night . " He recalled the occurrences before he fell asleep . The strange man with the keg of liquor - the mountain ravine - the wild retreat among the rocks - the ...
... mountain breeze . " Surely , " thought Rip , " I have not slept here all night . " He recalled the occurrences before he fell asleep . The strange man with the keg of liquor - the mountain ravine - the wild retreat among the rocks - the ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
الصفحة 19
... mountains . He shook his head , shouldered his rusty firelock , and with a heart full of trouble and anxiety turned his steps homeward . As he approached the village he met a number of people , but none whom he knew , which somewhat ...
... mountains . He shook his head , shouldered his rusty firelock , and with a heart full of trouble and anxiety turned his steps homeward . As he approached the village he met a number of people , but none whom he knew , which somewhat ...
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... mountains - there ran the silver Hudson at a distance there was every hill and dale precisely as it had always been . - Rip was sorely perplexed , — “ That flagon last night , " thought he , " has addled my poor head sadly ! " - It was ...
... mountains - there ran the silver Hudson at a distance there was every hill and dale precisely as it had always been . - Rip was sorely perplexed , — “ That flagon last night , " thought he , " has addled my poor head sadly ! " - It was ...
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abbey ancient aunts Baltus Van Tassel Baron beautiful Boar's Head bosom breath Brom Bones buried burst castle chamber Charlecot church churchyard Dame Van Winkle dark delight distant door Dutch earth Eastcheap Falstaff fancied feelings flowers funeral gaze gentleman ghost goblin grave hand haunted hear heard heart hour Ichabod Ichabod Crane Jack Straw John Bull kind lady living looked Lucy Maid's Tragedy mansion melancholy ment mind moldering monuments mountain nature neighborhood neighboring never night once passed poet poor pride recollection Rip Van Winkle Robert Preston round scene seated seemed seen sepulcher sexton Shakespeare side silent sleep Sleepy Hollow solemn sorrow soul sound specter spirit steed stood story strange Stratford sweet tale tavern tender Thomas Lucy thought tion told tomb tree turn village voice Wat Tyler whole wild William Walworth Wurtzburg
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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...