 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 438 pages
...with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions ; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country...nightmare, with her whole nine fold, seems to make it the favourite scene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 pages
...with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions ; stars shoot and meteors glare oftencr across the valley than in any other part of the country...night-mare, with her whole nine fold, seems to make it the favourite scene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 416 pages
...other part of the country, and the night-mare, with her whole nine fold, seems to make it the favourite scene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however,...that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander in chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback without... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country,...night-mare, with her whole nine fold, seems to make it the favourite scene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1830 - 346 pages
...with local tales, haunted spots, and twillight superstitions ; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country,...night-mare, with her whole nine fold, seems to make it the favourite scene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 pages
...with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions ; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country;...night-mare, with her whole nine fold, seems to make it the favourite scene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 284 pages
...tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions ; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across tho valley than in any other part of the country, and...night-mare, with her whole nine fold, seems to make it the favourite scene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 194 pages
...The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region , and seems to be commander in chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback withont a head. It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper , whose head had been carried... | |
 | 1841 - 456 pages
...with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country, and the nightmare, with her whole ninefold, seems to make it the favourite scene of her gambols. " The dominant spirit, however, that... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1846 - 356 pages
...with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country; and the night-mare, with her whole nine-fold, seems to make it the favourite scene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however, that... | |
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The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback without a head. It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian... 
