The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and The Spectre BridegroomJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1889 - 78 pages A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman. |
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adventure appearance Balt Baltus Van Tassel banquet Baron Von Landshort beheld bosom bride bridge Brom Bones brook burst castle of Landshort cavalier chamber church clattering coquette count countenance Daredevil dark dashed daughter dismal drowsy Dutch family feuds farm-house farmers favorite fearful feud foot Galloping Hessian Germany ghosts goblin guest haunted head headless horseman heard heart heiress hero hill horse horse's hour Hudson huge hung Ichabod Crane joke Katrina Van Tassel Katzenellenbogen kind kitchen knight-errant looked lover maiden aunts marvellous melancholy midnight mountain mounted neighborhood neighboring night nightly Odenwald old Gunpowder passed paused pedagogue poor relations psalmody received rider Ripper road round rustic saddle scene school-house schoolmaster seemed seen side sight Sleepy Hollow SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM spirit Starkenfaust stood story stranger stream tale terror told trampled under foot trees trooper turned valley WASHINGTON IRVING whip-poor-will whistle whole wild wings witching Wurtzburg young lady