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Página 57 - with a gun on his shoulder, and a mob at his heels, and whether he meant to breed a riot in the village ?"—Alas I 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!
Página 55 - It was with some difficulty that he found the way to his own house, which he approached with silent awe, expecting every moment to hear the shrill voice of Dame Van Winkle. 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
Página 59 - Oh, she too had died but a short time since ; she broke a blood-vessel in a fit of passion at a New-England pedler." There was a drop of comfort, at least, in this intelligence. The honest man could contain himself no longer. He caught his daughter and her child in his arms. " I am your father !
Página 59 - fellow from doing mischief, at the very suggestion of which the self-important man in the cocked hat retired with some precipitation. At this critical moment a fresh comely woman pressed through the throng to get a peep at the gray-bearded man. She had a chubby child in her arms, which,
Página 58 - Oh, he went off to the army in the beginning of the war ; some say he was killed at the storming of Stony Point — -others say he was drowned in a squall at the foot of Antony's Nose. I don't know — he never came back again."
Página 448 - Hollow; but Gunpowder, who seemed possessed with a demon, instead of keeping up it, made an opposite turn, and plunged headlong down hill to the left. This road leads through a sandy hollow, shaded by trees for about a quarter of a mile, where k crosses the bridge famous in goblin story, and just beyond
Página 426 - fretting about it, like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish discontented cry. Before the barn door strutted the gallant cock. that pattern of a husband, a warrior, and a fine gentleman, clapping his burnished wings, and crowing in the pride and gladness of his heart—sometimes tearing up the earth with his feet,
Página 446 - under the covert of those chestnuts and vines were the sturdy yeomen concealed who surprised him. This has ever since been considered a haunted stream, and fearful are the feelings of the schoolboy who has to pass it alone after dark. As he approached the stream, his heart began to thump
Página 58 - 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
Página 58 - 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