Six Selections from Irving's Sketch-bookGinn & Company, 1886 - 119 σελίδες |
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abbey Baltus Van Tassel Boards Bracebridge bridge Brom Bones called chapel Christmas church Classics for Children Cloth clouds Dame Van Winkle dance distant Dutch Edited Edward the Confessor effigies empire of Death England English farmhouse favorite George Somers ghosts goblin Gothic grave Guy Mannering hatchment haunted head heard heart Hessian horse Hudson humorous Ichabod Crane Introduction Irving Irving's kind Knight-errant land literature looked Mailing price mind Mizraim monument mountain neighborhood neighboring night old gentleman passage passed Peter Stuyvesant poor pupils Rip Van Winkle Rip's round scene school-house schoolmaster Scott's seemed Select sentence sepulchre Shakespeare ship side sketch Sleepy Hollow sometimes sound spirit squire story strange supple-jack Supt Tassel thee thought tion tomb trees turned urchins village voice voyage walls wandering Westminster Abbey whole wild woman words York Yule clog
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Σελίδα 32 - The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew.
Σελίδα 88 - ... of his wife, was to take gun in hand and stroll away into the woods. Here he would sometimes seat himself at the foot of a tree, and share the contents of his wallet with Wolf, with whom he sympathized as a fellow-sufferer in persecution. "Poor Wolf...
Σελίδα 100 - It was some time before he could get into the regular track of gossip, or could be made to comprehend the strange events that had taken place during his torpor. How that there had...
Σελίδα 95 - There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity.
Σελίδα 92 - ... 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.
Σελίδα 96 - Rip was equally at a loss to comprehend the question, when a knowing, self-important old gentleman in a sharp cocked hat made his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and left with his elbows as he passed, and planting himself before Van Winkle with one arm akimbo, the other resting on his cane, his keen eyes and sharp hat penetrating, as it were, into his very soul, demanded in an austere tone what brought him to the election with a gun on his shoulder and a mob at his heels, and whether...
Σελίδα 117 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : % And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Σελίδα 86 - Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on ; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Σελίδα 84 - 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. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps and up hill and down dale, to shoot a few squirrels or wild pigeons.
Σελίδα 88 - From an opening between the trees he could overlook all the lower country for many a mile of rich woodland. He saw at a distance the lordly Hudson, far, far below him, moving on its silent but majestic course...