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" ... of excellent Hollands. He was naturally a thirsty soul, and was soon tempted to repeat the draught. One taste provoked another, and he reiterated his visits to the flagon so often that at length his senses were overpowered, his eyes swam in his head,... "
Select American Classics: Being Selections from Irving's Sketch Book and ... - Page 139
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200 Years of Great American Short Stories

Martha Foley - 1975 - 1018 pages
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent

Washington Irving - 1978 - 576 pages
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The Hudson River in Literature: An Anthology

Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 pages
...had much of the flavor of excellent Hollands. He was naturally a thirsty soul, and was soon tempted to repeat the draught. One taste provoked another;...first seen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes—it was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the...
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A Rhetoric of the Unreal: Studies in Narrative and Structure, Especially of ...

Christine Brooke-Rose - 1981 - 460 pages
...carefully unspecified, under-determined, although this could escape a first reading (my italics):3 On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen the old man of the glen [reader assumes he was transported there after drinking from the flagon]. He rubbed his eyes - it was...
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Washington Irving: History, Tales & Sketches (LOA #16): The Sketch Book / A ...

Washington Irving - 1983 - 1198 pages
...had much of the flavour of excellent hollands. He was naturally a thirsty soul and was soon tempted to repeat the draught. One taste provoked another,...gradually declined and he fell into a deep sleep. On awaking he found himself on the green knoll from whence he had first seen the old man of the glen....
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Henry Chapman Mercer and the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works

Cleota Reed - 1987 - 312 pages
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The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose: From William Caxton to P.G. Wodehouse : a ...

Frank Muir - 1990 - 1208 pages
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American Literature: A Prentice Hall Anthology, Volume 1

Emory Elliott - 1991 - 2152 pages
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Hudson Valley Lives

Bonnie Marranca - 1991 - 456 pages
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A Dream of Countries where No One Dare Live: Stories

Louis Phillips - 1993 - 168 pages
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