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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
1896
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Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent

Washington Irving - 1886 - 522 pages
...had much of the flavor of excellent Hoi lands. He was naturally a thirsty soul, and was soon tempted to repeat the draught. One taste provoked another...waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he hud first Keen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eves — it was n bright sunny morning. The birds...
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The Continental First[-fifth] Reader, Volume 5

William A. Campbell - 1890 - 514 pages
...had much of the flavor of excellent Holland. 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. Spell and pronounce :— Kaatskill, favorite, re-echoed, herbage, precipice, woodland, highlands, fragments,...
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A Library of American Literature...

Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 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;...gradually declined, and he fell into a deep sleep. seen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes—it was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping...
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Mark Twain's Library of Humor

1888 - 744 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;...the flagon so often that at length his senses were overAWAKING FROM A LONG SLEEP. powered, his eyes swam in his head, his head gradually declined, and...
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Harper's First [-sixth] Reader, Book 5

Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889 - 524 pages
...had much of the flavor of excellent Hollands.i4 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. *i On waking he found himself on the green knoll from whence he had first seen the old man of the glen....
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Essays from the Sketch Book

Washington Irving - 1891 - 278 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...senses were overpowered, his eyes swam in his head, Ms head gradually declined, and he fell into a deep sleep. On waking, he found himself on the green...
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Living Thoughts in Words that Burn, from Poet, Sage and Humorist

Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 406 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,...length his senses were overpowered, his eyes swam in hi» head, his head gradually declined, and he fell into a deep sleep. On awaking ne found himself...
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American Prose: Hawthorne, Irving and Others

1891 - 432 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...length his senses were overpowered, his eyes swam itt his head, his head gradually declined, and he fell into a deep sleep. On waking, he found himself...
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Rip Van Winkle: And Other American Essays from The Sketch-book

Washington Irving - 1891 - 140 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...his visits to the flagon so often that at length his RIP VAN WINKLE. senses were overpowered, his eyes swam in his head, his head gradually declined, and...
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The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, Part 21

William Dwight Whitney - 1891 - 258 pages
...motion : as, everything swam before his eyes. At length his senses were overpowered, his eyes ncam in his head, his head gradually declined, and he fell into a deep sleep. Irring, Sketch-Book, p. 55. I read . . . Till my head swim». Tennyson, Holy Grail. swimbelt, »•...
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