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" In that same village, and in one of these very houses (which. to tell the precise truth, was sadly time-worn and weatherbeaten), there lived, many years since, while the country was yet a province of Great Britain, a simple, good-natured fellow, of the... "
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edited by - 1914 - 437 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 34

1820 - 646 pages
...bricks brought from Holland, having latticed windows and gable fronts, surmounted with weathercocks. ' In that same village, and in one of these very houses, (which, to tell the precise truth, was sadly time worn and weather beaten,) there lived, many years since, while the country was yet a province...
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The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of ..., Volume 5

1819 - 610 pages
...but sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of grey vapours about their summits, which, in the last rays of the...houses, (which, to tell the precise truth, was sadly time worn and weather beaten,) there lived many years since, while the country was yet a province of...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 1

Washington Irving - 1820 - 364 pages
...bricks brought from Holland, having latticed windows and gable fronts, surmounted with weathercocks. In that same village, and in one of these very houses, (which, to tell the precise truth, was sadly time worn and weather beaten,) there lived many years since, while the country was yet a province of...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 1

Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 pages
...bricks brought from Holland, having latticed windows and gable fronts, surmounted with weathercocks. In that same village, and in one of these very houses, (which, to tell the precise truth, was sadly time worn and weather beaten,) there lived many years since, while the country was yet a province of...
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The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review, Volume 2

1821 - 504 pages
...bricks brought from Holland, having latticed win( dows and gable fronts, surmounted with weathercocks. ' In that same village, and in one of these very houses, (which, : to tell the precise truth, was sadly time worn and weather beaten,) ' there lived, many years since, while the country was yet a pro' vince...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 84

1819 - 606 pages
...village of great antiquity, having been founded by some of the Dutch colonists, in the early times pf the province, just about the beginning of the government...houses, (which, to tell the precise truth, was sadly time worn and weather beaten,) there lived many years since, while the country was yet a province of...
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The Beauties of Washington Irving, Esq. ...

Washington Irving - 1830 - 346 pages
...lodgment in a goodly blue nosed, skimmed milk, New-England cheese. AN OBEDIENT HEN-PECKED HUSBAND. IN that same village, and in one of these very houses,...to tell the precise truth, was sadly time-worn and weather beaten,) there lived many years since, when the country was yet a province of Great Britain,...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Volume 1

Washington Irving - 1835 - 196 pages
...weathercocks. Tn that same village, and in one of these very houses (wbich , to toll the precise truth, ivas sadly time-worn and weather-beaten ) , there lived...country was yet a province of Great Britain, a simple gooduatured fellow, of the name of Rip Vau Winkle. He was a descendant of the Van Winkles who figured...
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The Beauties of Washington Irving

Washington Irving - 1835 - 284 pages
...month, " expect — much — rain — about-^this — time !" AN OBEDIENT HEN-PECKED HUSBAND. Ip» that same village, and in one of these very houses, (which, to tell the precise truth, was sadly titne-worn and weather be.iten,) there lived many years since, when the country was yet a province...
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Works, Volume 2

Washington Irving - 1848 - 1124 pages
...bricks brought from Holland, having latticed windows and gable fronts, surmounted with weather-cocks. In that same village, and in one of these very houses...Britain, a simple good-natured fellow of the name of Kip Van Winkle. He was a descendant of the Van Winkles who figured so gallantly in the chivalrous days...
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