 ... There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin piping voice, " Nicholas Vedder ! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years ! There was a wooden tombstone in the church-yard that used to tell all about him, but that's...  The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent - Seite 60von Washington Irving - 1848 - 464 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1820 - 646 Seiten
...used to tell all about him, but that's rotted and gone too. " — " Where's Brom Dutcher ? " — " Oh, he went off to the army in the beginning of the war ; some say he was killed at the storming of Stoney-Point — others say he was drowned in a squall at the foot of Antony's Nose. I don't know —... | |
 | 1819 - 610 Seiten
...yard that used to tell all about him, but that's, rotted and gone too." " Where's Brom Dutcher ?" " Oh he went off to the army in the beginning of the war ; some say he was killed at the battle of Stoney Point — others say he was drowned iu a squall, at the foot of Antony's Nose. I don't... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 Seiten
...church yard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too." "Where's Brom Butcher?" " Oh, he went off to the army in the beginning of the war ; some say he was killed at the storming of Stoney-Point — others say he was drowned in a squall at the foot of Antony's VOL. I. G Nose. I don't... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 364 Seiten
...church yard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotted and gone too." " Where's Brom Butcher?" " Oh, he went off to the army in the beginning of the war ; some say he was killed at the storming of Stoney-Point — others say he was drowned in a squall at the foot of Antony's VOL. I. G Nose. I don't... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1823 - 392 Seiten
...to the army in the beginning of the war; some say he was killed at the storming of Stoney-Point — others say he was drown,ed in a squall at the foot...Antony's Nose. I don't know — he never came back again, i) « Where's Van Bummel, the schoolmaster.* « He went offrto the wars too, was a great militia general,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 Seiten
...churchyard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.» « Where's Brom Butcher ?» « Oh, he went off to the army in the beginning of the war; some say he was killed at the storming of Stoney-Point — others say he was drowned in a squall at the foot of Antony's Nose. I don't know —... | |
 | 1819 - 606 Seiten
...church yard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotted and gone too." " Where's Brom Dutcher?" " Oh he went off to the army in the beginning of the war ; some say he was killed at the battle of Stoney Point — others say he was drowned in a squall, at the foot of Antony's Nose. I don't... | |
 | 1826 - 654 Seiten
...churchyard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotted and gone too." " Where's Brom Dutcher ?" " Oh, he went off to the army in the beginning of the war ; some say he was killed in the storming of Stoney-Foint — others say he was drowned in a squall at the foot of Antony's Nose.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 Seiten
...the war ; some say he was killed at the storming of Stony-Point — others say he was drowned in the squall, at the foot of Antony's Nose. I don't know — he never came back again." " Where 's Van Bummel, the schoolmaster ?" " He went off to the wars too, was a great militia general,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 320 Seiten
...churchyard that used to tell all about him, but that 's rotten and gone too ! " " Where's Brom Dutcher?" " Oh, he went off to the army in the beginning of the war ; some say he was killed at the storming of Stoney-Point — others say he was drowned in a squall at the foot of Antony's Nose. I don't know —... | |
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