 | Washington Irving - 1911 - 470 Seiten
...knees smote against the saddle ; it was but the rubbing of one huge bough upon another as they were swayed about by the breeze. He passed the tree in safety, but new perils lay before him. 30 About two hundred yards from the tree a small brook crossed the road and ran into a marshy and thickly... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1912 - 746 Seiten
...circumstances with which we are unacquainted. 2. About two hundred yards from the tree a small brook crossed 20 the road and ran into a marshy and thickly-wooded...that side of the road where the brook entered the woods, a group of oaks and chestnuts, matted thick with wild vines, threw a cavernous gloom over it.... | |
 | Lionel Strachey, Joel Chandler Harris, Andrew Lang, Brander Matthews, William Hayes Ward, Horatio Sheafe Krans - 1906 - 316 Seiten
...knees smote against the saddle: it was but the rubbing of one huge bough upon another, as they were swayed about by the breeze. He passed the tree in...brook crossed the road, and ran into a marshy and thickly- wooded glen, known by the name of Wiley's Swamp. A few rough logs, laid side by side, served... | |
 | 1912 - 414 Seiten
...knees smote against the saddle; it was but the rubbing of one huge bough upon another, as they were swayed about by the breeze. He passed the tree in...brook crossed the road, and ran into a marshy and thickly wooded glen, known by the name of Wiley's Swamp. A few rough logs, laid side by side, served... | |
 | 1914 - 442 Seiten
...knees smote against the saddle: it was but the rubbing of one huge bough upon another, as they were swayed about by the breeze. He passed the tree in safety, but new perils lay before him. 10 About two hundred yards from the tree, a small brook crossed the road, and ran into a marshy and... | |
 | 1914 - 304 Seiten
...he thought his whistle was answered; it was but a blast sweeping sharply through the dry branches. He passed the tree in safety, but new perils lay before him. was at this identical spot that the unfortunate Andre" was captured, and under the covert of those... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Fredrick Thomas Dawson - 1915 - 314 Seiten
...knees smote against the saddle: it was but the rubbing of one huge bough upon another, as they were swayed about by the breeze. He passed the tree in safety, but new perils lay before him. 5 About two hundred yards from the tree, a small brook crossed the road, and ran into a marshy and... | |
 | 1916 - 314 Seiten
...knees smote against the 177 saddle. It was but the rubbing of one huge bough upon another, as they were swayed about by the breeze. He passed the tree in...brook crossed the road, and ran into a marshy and thickly wooded glen. A few rough logs laid side by side served for a bridge over this stream. To pass... | |
 | Milton Chase Potter, Harry Jewett Jeschke, Harry Orrin Gillet - 1917 - 386 Seiten
...smote against the saddle — it was but the rubbing of one huge bough upon the other, as they were swayed about by the breeze. He passed the tree in safety, but new perils lay before him. In the dark shadow of a grove he beheld something huge, misshapen, black, and towering. The hair of... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 Seiten
...: it was but the rubbing of one huge bough upon another, as they were swayed about by the breeze. 5 He passed the tree in safety, but new perils lay before...road and ran into a marshy and thickly-wooded glen. A few rough logs laid side by side served for a bridge over this stream. On that side of the road where... | |
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... looking more narrowly, perceived that it was a place where the tree had been scathed by lightning, and the white wood laid bare. Suddenly he heard a groan. His teeth chattered, and his knees smote against the saddle. It was but the rubbing of one... 
