Knickerbocker Stories from the Old Dutch Days of New YorkNewson, 1897 - 140 страници |
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... stood on end , while the navigator sat steering with a third paddle in the stern , crouched down like a toad , with a slouched hat drawn over his eyes . I pre- sumed him to be some nautical lover on the way to his mistress . After ...
... stood on end , while the navigator sat steering with a third paddle in the stern , crouched down like a toad , with a slouched hat drawn over his eyes . I pre- sumed him to be some nautical lover on the way to his mistress . After ...
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... stood at some little distance from the street , with wide areas or courtyards , paved in mosaic , with variegated stones , polished by frequent rubbing . The areas were divided from the street by curiously - wrought railings , or ...
... stood at some little distance from the street , with wide areas or courtyards , paved in mosaic , with variegated stones , polished by frequent rubbing . The areas were divided from the street by curiously - wrought railings , or ...
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... stood up stoutly for his hand - breadth of territory ; so that there is not a petty 1 The Fountain of Youth , whose waters made one young again , was eagerly sought by the Spaniards . 2 the discoverer of Florida . He was 1521 killed in ...
... stood up stoutly for his hand - breadth of territory ; so that there is not a petty 1 The Fountain of Youth , whose waters made one young again , was eagerly sought by the Spaniards . 2 the discoverer of Florida . He was 1521 killed in ...
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... stood ready to argue their claims before any tribunal of Christendom . 2 This happened during the chivalrous reign of Peter Stuyve- sant , and roused the ire of that gunpowder old hero . With- out waiting to discuss claims and titles ...
... stood ready to argue their claims before any tribunal of Christendom . 2 This happened during the chivalrous reign of Peter Stuyve- sant , and roused the ire of that gunpowder old hero . With- out waiting to discuss claims and titles ...
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... stood in the very heart of what at that time was called the debatable ground , ' lying between the British and American lines . The British held possession of the city and island of New York ; while the Americans drew up towards the ...
... stood in the very heart of what at that time was called the debatable ground , ' lying between the British and American lines . The British held possession of the city and island of New York ; while the Americans drew up towards the ...
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Страница 101 - Rip Van Winkle yonder, leaning against the tree." Rip looked, and beheld a precise counterpart of himself, as he went up the mountain, apparently as lazy, and certainly as ragged. The poor fellow was now completely confounded. He doubted his own identity, and whether he was himself or another man. In the midst of his bewilderment, the man in the cocked hat demanded who he was, and what was his name. "God knows!
Страница 98 - He recognized on the sign, however, the ruby face of King George, under which he had smoked so many a peaceful pipe, but even this was singularly metamorphosed. The red coat was changed for one of blue and buff, a sword was held in the hand instead of a sceptre, the head was decorated with a cocked hat, and underneath was painted in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON.
Страница 99 - In place of these, a lean biliouslooking fellow, with his pockets full of handbills, was haranguing vehemently about rights of citizens — election — members of Congress — liberty — Bunker's hill — heroes of seventy-six — and other words which were a perfect Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van Winkle.
Страница 101 - The name of the child, the air of the mother, the tone of her voice, all awakened a train of recollections in his mind. "What is your name, my good woman?
Страница 101 - ... the cocked hat retired with some precipitation. At this critical moment a fresh comely woman pressed through the throng to get a peep at the gray-bearded man. She had a chubby child in her arms, which, frightened at his looks, began to cry. "Hush, Rip," cried she, "hush, you little fool; the old man won't hurt you.
Страница 92 - Eip lay musing on this scene; evening was gradually advancing, the mountains began to throw their long blue shadows over the valleys; he saw that it would be dark long before he could reach the village, and he heaved a heavy sigh when he thought of encountering the terrors of Dame Van Winkle. As he was about to descend, he heard a voice from a distance, hallooing, "Rip Van Winkle!
Страница 117 - It was one of those spacious farmhouses with high-ridged but lowly-sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first Dutch settlers, the low projecting eaves forming a piazza along the front capable of being closed up in bad weather.
Страница 105 - A pleasing land of drowsy -head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Страница 89 - ... of him. His fences were continually falling to pieces ; his cow would either go astray, or get among the cabbages; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than anywhere else ; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some out-door work to do ; so that though his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre by acre, until there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian corn and potatoes, yet it was the worst conditioned farm in the neighborhood.
Страница 99 - ... 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 the village?