Six Selections from Irving's Sketch-book: With Notes, Questions, Etc. for Home and School UseGinn & Company, 1891 - 119 Seiten |
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... looked down , from my giddy height , on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols , - shoals of porpoises tumbling about the bow of the ship ; the grampus slowly heaving his huge form above the surface ; or the rav- enous shark ...
... looked down , from my giddy height , on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols , - shoals of porpoises tumbling about the bow of the ship ; the grampus slowly heaving his huge form above the surface ; or the rav- enous shark ...
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... looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck to tell uo which way the wind blew . To see him striding along the pro- file of a hill on a windy day , with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him , one might have mistaken ...
... looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck to tell uo which way the wind blew . To see him striding along the pro- file of a hill on a windy day , with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him , one might have mistaken ...
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... looked upon his sump- tuous promise of luxurious winter fare . In his devouring 34 mind's eye he pictured to himself every roasting - pig running about with a pudding in his belly , and an apple in his mouth ; the pigeons were snugly ...
... looked upon his sump- tuous promise of luxurious winter fare . In his devouring 34 mind's eye he pictured to himself every roasting - pig running about with a pudding in his belly , and an apple in his mouth ; the pigeons were snugly ...
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... looked upon him with a mix- ture of awe , admiration , and good - will ; and when any madcap prank or rustic brawl occurred in the vicinity , always shook their heads , and warranted Brom Bones was at the bottom of it . This rantipole ...
... looked upon him with a mix- ture of awe , admiration , and good - will ; and when any madcap prank or rustic brawl occurred in the vicinity , always shook their heads , and warranted Brom Bones was at the bottom of it . This rantipole ...
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... looked after , but girls can take care of themselves . Thus , while the busy dame bustled about the house , or plied her spinning - wheel 490 at one end of the piazza , honest Balt would sit smoking his evening pipe at the other ...
... looked after , but girls can take care of themselves . Thus , while the busy dame bustled about the house , or plied her spinning - wheel 490 at one end of the piazza , honest Balt would sit smoking his evening pipe at the other ...
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35 cents 50 cents abbey Baltus Van Tassel Boards Bracebridge Brom Bones called chapel Christmas church cloisters Cloth clouds Dame Van Winkle dance delight distant door 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 horse Hudson humorous Ichabod Crane introduction Irving Irving's kind Knight-errant land looked Mailing Price 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 ship side sketch Sleepy Hollow sometimes sound spirit squire steed story strange supple-jack Tassel teacher thee thought tion tomb trees turned urchins village voice voyage walls wandering whistle whole wild woman words York Yule clog