Selected Essays from The Sketch Book by Washington Irving: Prescribed by the Regents of the University of the State of New York for the Course in First Year EnglishHoughton, Mifflin, 1901 - 200 σελίδες |
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... object of carrying a keg of liquor up this wild mountain , yet there was something strange and incomprehensible about the unknown , that inspired awe and checked familiarity . On entering the amphitheatre , new objects of wonder ...
... object of carrying a keg of liquor up this wild mountain , yet there was something strange and incomprehensible about the unknown , that inspired awe and checked familiarity . On entering the amphitheatre , new objects of wonder ...
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... his paw resting lov- ingly ( ! ) on a lamb , accompanies the rhymes ; and the main object seems to be to impress indelibly on the learner's mind the letter L. from the nose of Ichabod Crane . Thus , by THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW . 39.
... his paw resting lov- ingly ( ! ) on a lamb , accompanies the rhymes ; and the main object seems to be to impress indelibly on the learner's mind the letter L. from the nose of Ichabod Crane . Thus , by THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW . 39.
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... object of his uncouth gallantries , and though his amorous toyings were something like the gentle caresses and endearments of 1 The Cossacks are restless and warlike Russian tribes , of excellent service to the Russian army as scouts ...
... object of his uncouth gallantries , and though his amorous toyings were something like the gentle caresses and endearments of 1 The Cossacks are restless and warlike Russian tribes , of excellent service to the Russian army as scouts ...
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... object of whimsical persecution to Bones and his gang of rough riders . They harried his hitherto peaceful domains , smoked out his singing - school by stopping up the chimney , broke into the schoolhouse at night , in spite of its ...
... object of whimsical persecution to Bones and his gang of rough riders . They harried his hitherto peaceful domains , smoked out his singing - school by stopping up the chimney , broke into the schoolhouse at night , in spite of its ...
Σελίδα 68
... object of alarm put itself in motion , and with a scramble and a bound stood at once in the middle of the road . Though the night was dark and dismal , yet the form of the unknown might now in some degree be ascertained . He appeared to ...
... object of alarm put itself in motion , and with a scramble and a bound stood at once in the middle of the road . Though the night was dark and dismal , yet the form of the unknown might now in some degree be ascertained . He appeared to ...
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adjective adverb adverb clause ancient antiquated authors Avon Baltus Van Tassel beautiful born bosom Bracebridge Brom Bones called Christmas church clause companion cottage countenance Dame Van Winkle dance deep delight door Dutch England English Falstaff fancy favorite festival fire Fort Christina goblin hall hand haunted Hawthorne's head heard heart horse Hudson hung Ichabod Ichabod Crane Irving Irving's John justice kind Knickerbocker land literature Longfellow's looked Lucy mansion Master Simon ment merry mind morning mountain neighborhood neighboring never night noun old English old gentleman passed pluperfect Poems poet poor present preterite Rip Van Winkle round scene secondary tense seemed Shakspeare Shakspeare's side Sketch Sleepy Hollow sometimes Song of Hiawatha sound spirit squire steed story Stratford Thomas Lucy thought trees turn verb village voyage Washington Irving Whittier's wild window witches writings
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Σελίδα 169 - Since ghost there is none to affright thee. Let not the dark thee cumber ; What though the moon does slumber? The stars of the night Will lend thee their light, Like tapers clear without number. Then, Julia, let me woo thee, Thus, thus to come unto me ; And when I shall meet Thy silvery feet, My soul I'll pour into thee.
Σελίδα 90 - Barren, barren, barren ; beggars all, beggars all. Sir John : marry, good air.
Σελίδα 7 - WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country.
Σελίδα 44 - ... pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon and juicy relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages...
Σελίδα 31 - If ever I should wish for a retreat whither I might steal from the world and its distractions and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley.
Σελίδα 71 - Ripper, and partly in mortification at having been suddenly dismissed by the heiress; that he had changed his quarters to a distant part of the country; had kept school and studied law at the same time; had been admitted to the bar; turned politician; electioneered; written for the newspapers; and finally had been made a Justice of the Ten Pound Court.
Σελίδα 11 - was as much henpecked as his master ; for Dame Van Winkle regarded them as companions in idleness, and even looked upon Wolf with an evil eye, as the cause of his master's going so often astray. True it is, in all points of spirit befitting an honorable dc<*, he was as courageous an animal as ever scoured the woods — but what...
Σελίδα 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 ?"
Σελίδα 34 - To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.
Σελίδα 24 - 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?