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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... side which , in truth , belongs to a henpecked husband . ― Rip's sole domestic adherent was his dog Wolf , who was as much henpecked as his master ; for Dame Van Winkle regarded them as companions in idleness , and even looked upon Wolf ...
... side which , in truth , belongs to a henpecked husband . ― Rip's sole domestic adherent was his dog Wolf , who was as much henpecked as his master ; for Dame Van Winkle regarded them as companions in idleness , and even looked upon Wolf ...
Σελίδα 15
... side he looked down into a deep moun- tain glen , wild , lonely , and shagged , the bottom filled with fragments from the impending cliffs , and scarcely lighted by the reflected rays of the setting sun . some time Rip lay musing on ...
... side he looked down into a deep moun- tain glen , wild , lonely , and shagged , the bottom filled with fragments from the impending cliffs , and scarcely lighted by the reflected rays of the setting sun . some time Rip lay musing on ...
Σελίδα 16
... side , looking fearfully down into the glen . Rip now felt a vague apprehension stealing over him ; he looked ... sides , and bunches at the knees . He bore on his shoulder a stout keg , that seemed full of liquor , and made signs for ...
... side , looking fearfully down into the glen . Rip now felt a vague apprehension stealing over him ; he looked ... sides , and bunches at the knees . He bore on his shoulder a stout keg , that seemed full of liquor , and made signs for ...
Σελίδα 20
... sides , working his toilsome way through thickets of birch , sassafras , and witch - hazel , and sometimes tripped up or entangled by the wild grapevines that twisted their coils or tendrils from tree to tree , and spread a kind of ...
... sides , working his toilsome way through thickets of birch , sassafras , and witch - hazel , and sometimes tripped up or entangled by the wild grapevines that twisted their coils or tendrils from tree to tree , and spread a kind of ...
Σελίδα 23
... side he voted ? " Rip started in vacant stupidity . Another short but busy little fellow pulled him by the arm , and , rising on tiptoe , inquired in his ear , " Whether he was Federal or Democrat ? " Rip was equally at a loss to ...
... side he voted ? " Rip started in vacant stupidity . Another short but busy little fellow pulled him by the arm , and , rising on tiptoe , inquired in his ear , " Whether he was Federal or Democrat ? " Rip was equally at a loss to ...
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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?