Works, Volumen2G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1848 |
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... friend of mine , to whom I have introduced you in your literary capacity . His name is Lockhart , a young man of very considerable talent , and who will soon be intimately connected with my family . My faithful friend Knickerbocker is ...
... friend of mine , to whom I have introduced you in your literary capacity . His name is Lockhart , a young man of very considerable talent , and who will soon be intimately connected with my family . My faithful friend Knickerbocker is ...
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... friends . When , however , I look over the hints and memorandums I have taken down for the purpose , my heart almost fails me at finding how idle humor has led me aside from the great objects studied by every regular traveller who would ...
... friends . When , however , I look over the hints and memorandums I have taken down for the purpose , my heart almost fails me at finding how idle humor has led me aside from the great objects studied by every regular traveller who would ...
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... friends or relatives . I could distinguish the mer- chant to whom the ship was consigned . I knew him by his calculating brow and restless air . His hands were thrust into his pockets ; he was whistling thoughtfully , and walking to and ...
... friends or relatives . I could distinguish the mer- chant to whom the ship was consigned . I knew him by his calculating brow and restless air . His hands were thrust into his pockets ; he was whistling thoughtfully , and walking to and ...
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... friends happened to recognize each other . I particularly noticed one young woman of humble dress , but interest ... friends - the consultations of men of business . I alone was solitary and idle . I had no friend to meet , no cheering ...
... friends happened to recognize each other . I particularly noticed one young woman of humble dress , but interest ... friends - the consultations of men of business . I alone was solitary and idle . I had no friend to meet , no cheering ...
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... friends grow cold , and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace , these only continue the unaltered counte- nance of happier days , and cheer us with that true friend- ship which never deceived hope ...
... friends grow cold , and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace , these only continue the unaltered counte- nance of happier days , and cheer us with that true friend- ship which never deceived hope ...
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Página 32 - 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?
Página 21 - Eip lay musing on this scene; evening was gradually advancing, the mountains began to throw their long blue shadows over the valleys; he saw that it would be dark long before he could reach the village, and he heaved a heavy sigh when he thought of encountering the terrors of Dame Van Winkle. As he was about to descend, he heard a voice from a distance, hallooing, "Rip Van Winkle!
Página 440 - ... improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless country, sweeps by them unobserved. They are like those little nooks of still water which border a rapid stream; where we may see the straw and bubble riding quietly at anchor, or slowly revolving in their mimic harbor, undisturbed by the rush of the passing current.
Página 23 - They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion; some wore short doublets, others jerkins, with long knives in their belts, and most of them had enormous breeches, of similar style with that of the guide's. Their visages, too, were peculiar...
Página 22 - Passing through the ravine, they came to a hollow, like a small amphitheatre, surrounded by perpendicular precipices, over the brinks of which impending trees shot their branches, so that you only caught glimpses of the azure sky and the bright evening cloud.
Página 19 - ... august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago, who charged him outright with encouraging her husband in habits of idleness. Poor Rip was at last reduced almost to despair; and his only alternative, to escape from the...
Página 445 - Mather's direful tales, until the gathering dusk of the evening made the printed page a mere mist before his eyes. Then, as he wended his way, by swamp and stream and awful woodland, to the farmhouse where he happened to be quartered, every sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagination : the moan of the whip-poor-will...
Página 21 - Rip Van Winkle ! Rip Van Winkle ! " He looked round, but could see nothing but a crow winging its solitary flight across the mountain. He thought his fancy must have deceived him, and turned again to descend, when he heard the same cry ring through the still evening air; " Rip Van Winkle ! Rip Van Winkle...
Página 32 - Ah, poor man, Rip Van Winkle was his name, but it's 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 himself, or was carried away by the Indians, nobody can tell. I was then but a little girl.
Página 35 - ... 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.