 | William Swinton - 1885 - 624 pages
...incomprehensible about the unknown,1 that inspired awe and checked familiarity. On entering the amphitheater new objects of wonder presented themselves. On a level spot in the center was a company of odd-looking personages2 playing at ninepins. They were dressed in a quaint... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...cloud. During the whole time Rip and his companion had labored on in silence; for though the former marvelled greatly what could be the object of carrying...personages playing at nine-pins. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion; some wore short doublets, others jerkins, with long knives in their belts,... | |
 | 1888 - 742 pages
...During the whole time Rip and his companion had labored on in silence; for though the former marveled greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg...personages playing at nine-pins. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion; some wore short doublets, others jerkins, with long knives in their belts,... | |
 | William A. Campbell - 1890 - 514 pages
...During the whole time, Rip and his companion had labored on in silence ; for, though the former marveled greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg...unknown, that inspired awe, and checked familiarity. lets; others jerkins, with long knives in their belts; and most of them had enormous breeches, of similar... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1888 - 748 pages
...During the whole time Rip and his companion had labored on in silence; for though the former marveled greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg...unknown, that inspired awe and checked familiarity. tilP VAN tVltfKL£. On entering the amphitheatre, new objects of wonder presented chemselves. On a... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889 - 524 pages
...During the whole time, Ripio and his companion had labored on in silence, for though the former marveled greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg...unknown that inspired awe and checked familiarity. is On entering the amphitheatre, new objects of wonder presented themselves. On a level spot in the... | |
 | 1891 - 432 pages
...cloud. During the whole time Eip and his companion had labored on in silence; for though the former marvelled greatly what could be the object of carrying...personages playing at ninepins. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion ; some wore short doublets, others jerkins, with long knives in their belts,... | |
 | 1891 - 494 pages
...cloud. During the whole time Rip and his companion had labored on in silence ; for though the former marvelled greatly what could be the object of carrying...personages playing at ninepins. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion ; some wore short doublets, others jerkins, with long knives in their belts,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 140 pages
...cloud. During the whole time Rip and his companion had labored on in silence ; for though the former marvelled greatly what could be the object of carrying...personages playing at ninepins. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion ; some wore short doublets, others jerkins, with long knives in their belts,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 278 pages
...cloud. During the whole time Rip and his companion had labored on in silence ; for though the former marvelled greatly what could be the object of carrying...personages playing at ninepins. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion ; some wore short doublets, others jerkins, with long knives in their belts,... | |
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... surrounded by perpendicular precipices, over the brinks of which impending trees shot their branches, so that you only caught glimpses of the azure sky and the bright evening cloud. 
