| Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 σελίδες
...spectre dared to show its face, it was dearly purchased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homewards. What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amidst...often did he shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own steps on the frosty crust beneath his feet ; and dread to look over his shoulder, lest he... | |
| Washington Irving - 1897 - 72 σελίδες
...spectre dared to show its face, it was dearly purchased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homewards. What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night!—With what wistful look did he eye every trembling ray of light streaming across the waste... | |
| James Baldwin - 1897 - 220 σελίδες
...were the shapes and shadows that fell across his way in the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night! How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted specter, 10 beset his very path ! How often did he shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own... | |
| James Baldwin - 1897 - 430 σελίδες
...night! How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted specter, 10 beset his very path ! How often did he shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own steps on the frosty crust beneath his feet, and dread to look over his shoulder lest he... | |
| James Baldwin - 1897 - 430 σελίδες
...were the shapes and shadows that fell across his way in the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night! How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted specter, 10 beset his very path ! How often did he shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own... | |
| 1898 - 264 σελίδες
...specter dared to show its face, it was dearly purchased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homewards. What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path amidst...some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted specter, beset his very path ! How often did he shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own steps... | |
| Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1898 - 328 σελίδες
...specter dared to show his face, it was dearly purchased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homewards. What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path amidst...trembling ray of light streaming across the waste of fields from some distant window! How often did he shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own... | |
| 1898 - 264 σελίδες
...window ! How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted specter, beset his very path ! How often did he shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own steps on the frosty crust beneath his feet, and dread to look over his shoulder, lest he... | |
| William Landon Felter - 1900 - 244 σελίδες
...spectre dared to show its face, it was dearly purchased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homewards. What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amidst...often did he shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own steps on the frosty crust beneath his feet ; and dread to look over his shoulder, lest he... | |
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