 Rip was, that though these folks were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained the gravest faces, the most mysterious silence, and were withal the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the...  The Works of Washington Irving - Page 52by Washington Irving - 1857Full view - About this book
 | 1872 - 660 pages
...melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were...from their play, and stared at him with such fixed, statuelike gaze, and such strange, uncouth, lack-luster countenances, that his heart turned within... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 pages
...melancholy party of pleasure that he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were...from their play, and stared at him with such fixed, statue-like gaze, and such strange, uncouth, lack-lustre countenances, that his heart turned within... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 pages
...melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness ol the scene but T >ٱ [ c7kn ^n 5}( Hb HG P R? x ]]K 3 8Mds?} 9 H 7 ...=# A~ 3M D %U' H ! o H ) f L Y j4 hie companion approached them, they suddenly desisted from their play, and stared at him with such... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 pages
...melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were...along the mountains like rumbling peals of thunder. obeyed with fear and trembling ; they quaffed the liquor in profound silence, and then returncd to... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were...from their play, and stared at him with such fixed, statue-like gaze, and such strange, uncouth, lack-lustre countenances, that his heart turned within... | |
 | Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 pages
...themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd-looking personages playing at ninepins. As Rip and his companion approached them, they suddenly...desisted from their play, and stared at him with such a fixed statue-like gaze, r.nd such strange, uncouth, lack-lustre countenances, that his heart turned... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1878 - 510 pages
...melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were...from their play, and stared at him with such fixed, statue-like gaze, and such strange, uncouth, lack-lustre countenances, that his heart turned within... | |
 | Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1878 - 186 pages
...melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were...from their play, and stared at him with such fixed statue-like gaze, and such strange, uncouth, lacklustre countenances, that his heart turned within... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 pages
...which, whenever they were rolled, echoed a^ng the mountains like rumbling peals of thunder. 11. As Hip and his companion approached them, they suddenly desisted...from their play, and stared at him with such fixed, statue-like gaze, and such strange, uncouth, lack-luster countenances, that his heart turned within... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1878 - 152 pages
...pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of 270 the balls, which, whenever they were rolled, echoed...along the mountains like rumbling peals of thunder. As Eip and his companion approached them, they suddenly desisted from their play, and stared ' at him... | |
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