Six Selections from Irving's Sketch-book: With Notes, Questions, Etc. for Home and School UseGinn & Company, 1891 - 119 Seiten |
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... neighborhood abounds with local tales , haunted spots , and twilight superstitions ; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country , and the nightmare , with her whole nine fold , seems to ...
... neighborhood abounds with local tales , haunted spots , and twilight superstitions ; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country , and the nightmare , with her whole nine fold , seems to ...
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... neighborhood , and picked up many bright shillings by instructing the young folks in psalmody . It was a matter of no little vanity to him , on Sundays , to take his station in front of the church gallery , with a band of chosen singers ...
... neighborhood , and picked up many bright shillings by instructing the young folks in psalmody . It was a matter of no little vanity to him , on Sundays , to take his station in front of the church gallery , with a band of chosen singers ...
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... neighborhood , being considered a kind of idle , gentlemanlike personage , of vastly superior taste and accomplishments to the rough country swains , and , indeed , in- ferior in learning only to the parson . His appearance , therefore ...
... neighborhood , being considered a kind of idle , gentlemanlike personage , of vastly superior taste and accomplishments to the rough country swains , and , indeed , in- ferior in learning only to the parson . His appearance , therefore ...
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... neighborhood for more than half a century . His instrument 135 709. Higgledy - piggledy , in confusion . 724. Niggardly ( " The habit of attention to minute gains in earning money is closely connected with a careful unwillingness to ...
... neighborhood for more than half a century . His instrument 135 709. Higgledy - piggledy , in confusion . 724. Niggardly ( " The habit of attention to minute gains in earning money is closely connected with a careful unwillingness to ...
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... neighborhood , stood forming a pyramid of shining black faces at every door and window , gazing with delight at the scene , rolling their white eyeballs , and showing grinning rows of ivory from ear to ear . 750 How could the flogger of ...
... neighborhood , stood forming a pyramid of shining black faces at every door and window , gazing with delight at the scene , rolling their white eyeballs , and showing grinning rows of ivory from ear to ear . 750 How could the flogger of ...
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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