 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 Seiten
...sharp cocked-hat mude his way through the crowd, putting them to the riaíht and left with his ellx,ws as he passed, and planting himself before Van Winkle,...keen eyes and sharp hat penetrating as it were into 1m very soul, demanded in an austere tone, "what brought him to the election with a gun on his shoulder,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 528 Seiten
...comprehend the question ; when a knowing, self-important old gentleman, in a sharp cocked hat, made his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and...passed, and planting himself before Van Winkle, with 25 one arm akimbo, the other resting on his cane, his keen eyes and sharp hat penetrating, as it were,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 518 Seiten
...comprehend the question ; when a knowing, self-important old gentleman, in a sharp cocked hat, made his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and...demanded, in an austere tone, " what brought him to the election with a gun on his shoulder, and a mob at his heels, and whether he meant to breed a riot in... | |
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 304 Seiten
...comprehend the question ; when a knowing, self-important old gentleman, in a sharp cocked hat, made his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and...demanded in an austere tone, " What brought him to the election with a gun on his shoulder, and a mob at his heels, and whether he meant to breed a riot in... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1866 - 526 Seiten
...comprehend the question ; when a knowing, self-important old gentleman, in a sharp .cocked hat, made his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and left with his elbows aa he passed, and planting himself before Van Winkle, with 25 one arm akimbo, the other resting on... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1869 - 260 Seiten
...comprehend the question ; when a knowing, self-important old gentleman, in a sharp cocked hat, made his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and...demanded in an austere tone, " What brought him to the election with a gun on his shoulder, and a mob at his heels, and whether he meant to breed a riot in... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm P. Oertel - 1870 - 244 Seiten
...comprehend the question ; when a knowing self-important old gentleman, in a sharp cocked hat, made his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and...demanded, in an austere tone, "what brought him to the election with a gun on his shoulder, and a mob at his heels, and whether he meant to breed a riot in... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 Seiten
...comprehend the question ; when a knowing, self-important old gentleman, in a sharp cocked hat, made his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and...demanded in an austere tone what brought him to the election with a gun on his shoulder, and a mob at his heels ; and whether he meant to breed a riot... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1872 - 460 Seiten
...comprehend the question; when a knowing, self-important old gentleman, in a sharp cocked hat, made his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and...demanded, in an austere tone, " what brought him to the election with a gun on his shoulder, and a mob at his heels, and whether he meant to breed a riot in... | |
 | 1872 - 660 Seiten
...self-important old gentleman, in a sharp cocked hat, made his way through the crowd, putting them £o the right and left with his elbows as he passed, and...demanded in an austere tone what brought him to the election with a gun on his shoulder, and a mob at his heels ; and whether he meant to breed a riot... | |
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Rip was equally at a loss to comprehend the question, when a knowing, self-important old gentleman in a sharp cocked hat made his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and left with his elbows as he passed, and planting himself before Van Winkle... 
