 ... 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 scene but the noise of the...  Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Page 24by Washington Irving - 1893 - 218 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1885 - 440 pages
...interrupted the stillness'of the scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling peals of...with such fixed statue-like gaze, and such strange, lack-lustre countenances that his heart turned within him, and his knees smote together. His companion... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 624 pages
...their play, and stared at him with such fixed statue-like gaze, and such strange, uncouth, lack-luster countenances, that his heart turned within him, and...companion now emptied the contents of the keg into large flagons,4 and made signs to him to wait upon the company. He obeyed with fear and trembling: they quaffed... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1888 - 748 pages
...interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling peals of...companion now emptied the contents of the keg into large fiagons, and made signs to him to wait upon the company. He obeyed with fear and trembling; they quaffed... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889 - 524 pages
...balls, which, whenever they were rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling peals of thunder. io As Rip and his companion approached them, they suddenly...desisted from their play, and stared at him with such a fixed, statue-like gaze, and such strange, uncouth, lackluster countenances, that his heart turned... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 170 pages
...interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling peals of...fixed, statue-like gaze, and such strange, uncouth, lack-luster countenances, that his heart turned within him, and his knees smote together. His companion... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1894 - 462 pages
...interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling peals of...desisted from their play, and stared at him with such a fixed statue-like gaze, and such strange, uncouth, lack-lustre countenances, that his heart turned... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 280 pages
...interrupted the stillness of the scene but is the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling peals of...they suddenly desisted from their play, and stared w at him with such fixed statue-like gaze, and such strange, uncouth, lack-lustre countenances, that... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 396 pages
...interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling peals of...statue-like gaze, and such strange, uncouth, lack-lustre countinances, that his heart turned within him, and his knees smote together. His companion now emptied... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 482 pages
...interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling peals of...fixed statue-like gaze, and such strange, uncouth, lack-lustro countenances, that his heart turned within him, and his knees smote together. His companion... | |
 | 1896 - 374 pages
...interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling peals of...fixed, statue-like gaze, and such strange, uncouth, lack-luster countenances, that his heart turned within him, and his knees smote together. His companion... | |
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