It was full of pits and quagmires, partly covered with weeds and mosses, where the green surface often betrayed the traveller into a gulf of black, smothering mud: there were also dark and stagnant pools, the abodes of the tadpole, the bull-frog, and... Tales of a Traveller - Σελίδα 218των Washington Irving - 1825Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
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...had been to a distant part of the neighbourhood, he took what be considered a short cut homewards, through the swamp. Like most short cuts, it was an...water-snake ; where the trunks of pines and hemlocks lay half drowned, half rotting, looking like alligators sleeping in the mire. Tom had long been picking... | |
| geoffrey crayon, gent. - 1824 - 414 σελίδες
...had been to a distant part of the neighbourhood, he took what he considered a short cut homewards, through the swamp. Like most short cuts, it was an...watersnake ; where the trunks of pines and hemlocks lay half drowned, half rotting, looking like alligators sleeping in the mire. Tom had long been picking... | |
| Washington Irving - 1824 - 404 σελίδες
...neighbourhood, he took what he considered a short cut homev.ard, through the swamp. Like most short tuts, it was an ill-chosen route. The swamp was thickly...water-snake ; where the trunks of pines and hemlocks lay half drowned, half rotting, looking like alligators sleeping in the mire. Tom had long been picking... | |
| Washington Irving - 1849 - 470 σελίδες
...ninety feet high, which made it dark at noonday, and a retreat for all the owls of the neighborhood. It was full of pits and quagmires, partly covered...the trunks of pines and hemlocks lay half-drowned, half-rotting, looking like alligators sleeping in the mire. Tom had long been picking his way cautiously... | |
| Washington Irving - 1850 - 276 σελίδες
...to a distant part of 'the neighbourhood, he took what he considered a short cut nomeward, througtt the swamp. Like most short cuts, it was an ill-chosen...and stagnant pools, the abodes of the tadpole, the btdl-frog, .and the waterTom had long been picking his way cautiously through this treacherous forest;... | |
| Washington Irving - 1851 - 472 σελίδες
...ninety feet high, which made it dark at noonday, and a retreat for all the owls of the neighborhood. It was full of pits and quagmires, partly covered...of black, smothering mud : there were also dark and stag nant pools, the abodes of the tadpole, the bull-frog, and the watersnake ; where the trunks of... | |
| Washington Irving - 1851 - 612 σελίδες
...ninety feet high, which made it dark at noonday, and a retreat for all the owls of the neighborhood. Jt was full of pits and quagmires, partly covered with...of black, smothering mud : there were also dark and stag nant pools, the abodes of the tadpole, the bull-frog, and the watersnake ; where the trunks of... | |
| Washington Irving - 1857 - 462 σελίδες
...ninety feet high, which made it dark at noonday, and a retreat for all the owls of the neighborhood. It was full of pits and quagmires, partly covered...of black, smothering mud: there were also dark and stag nant pools, the abodes of the tadpole, the bull-frog, and the water snake ; where the trunks of... | |
| Washington Irving - 1860 - 490 σελίδες
...ninety feet high, which made it dark at noonday, and a retreat for all the owls of the neighborhood. It was full of pits and quagmires, partly covered...the trunks of pines and hemlocks lay half-drowned, half-rotting, looking like alligators sleeping in the mire. Tom had long been picking his way cautiously... | |
| Washington Irving - 1881 - 970 σελίδες
...ninety foot high, which made it dark at noonday, and a retreat for all the owls of the neighborhood. It was full of pits and quagmires, partly covered...often betrayed the traveller into a gulf of black, smother. ing mud : there were also dark and stagnant pools, the abodes of the tadpole, the bull-frog,... | |
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