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... gave rise to many dismal anecdotes . This was particularly the case in the evening , when the weather , which had hitherto been fair , began to look wild and threatening , and gave indications of one of those sudden storms which will ...
... gave rise to many dismal anecdotes . This was particularly the case in the evening , when the weather , which had hitherto been fair , began to look wild and threatening , and gave indications of one of those sudden storms which will ...
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... gave rise to many dismal anecdotes . This was particularly the case in the evening , when the weather , which had hitherto been fair , began to look wild and threatening , and gave indications of one of those sudden storms which will ...
... gave rise to many dismal anecdotes . This was particularly the case in the evening , when the weather , which had hitherto been fair , began to look wild and threatening , and gave indications of one of those sudden storms which will ...
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... gave it full credit . Even to this day they never hear a thunderstorm of a summer afternoon about the Kaatskill , but they say Hendrick Hudson and his crew are at their game of nine - pins ; and it is a com- mon wish of all hen - pecked ...
... gave it full credit . Even to this day they never hear a thunderstorm of a summer afternoon about the Kaatskill , but they say Hendrick Hudson and his crew are at their game of nine - pins ; and it is a com- mon wish of all hen - pecked ...
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... gave a transient currency to the worthless and the ungrateful . Throughout the country there was some- thing of enthusiasm connected with the idea of England . We looked to it with a hallowed feeling of tenderness and veneration , as ...
... gave a transient currency to the worthless and the ungrateful . Throughout the country there was some- thing of enthusiasm connected with the idea of England . We looked to it with a hallowed feeling of tenderness and veneration , as ...
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... gave his last gasp about thirty years since . The tavern was then turned into shops ; but she informed me that a picture of it was still preserved in St. Michael's Church , which stood just in the rear . To get a sight of this picture ...
... gave his last gasp about thirty years since . The tavern was then turned into shops ; but she informed me that a picture of it was still preserved in St. Michael's Church , which stood just in the rear . To get a sight of this picture ...
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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.