 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 254 pages
...by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed. —"My very dog," sighed poor Rip, "has forgotten me!" He entered the house, which, to tell the truth, Dame 10 Van Winkle had always kept in neat order. It was empty, forlorn, and apparently abandoned. This... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 254 pages
...by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed. —"My very dog," sighed poor Rip, "has forgotten me!" He entered the house, which, to tell the truth, Dame 10 Van Winkle had always kept in neat order. It was empty, forlorn, and apparently abandoned. This... | |
 | Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 pages
...by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed—"My very dog," sighed poor Rip, "has forgotten me!" He...abandoned. This desolateness overcame all his connubial fears—he called loudly for his wife and children—the lonely chambers rang for a moment with his... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1983 - 1198 pages
...by name but the cur snarled, shewed his teeth and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed — "My very dog," sighed poor Rip, "has forgotten me!" He...children — the lonely chambers rung for a moment with his voice, and then all again was silence. He now hurried forth and hastened to his old resort, the... | |
 | Washington Irving, Arthur Rackham, Pat Stewart - 1983 - 52 pages
...by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed — "My very dog," sighed poor Rip, "has forgotten me!" He...for his wife and children — the lonely chambers rang for a moment with his voice, and then all again was silence. Strange faces at the windows. 30... | |
 | Washington Irving, Thea Kliros - 1995 - 84 pages
...by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed — "My very dog," sighed poor Rip, "has forgotten me!" He...for his wife and children — the lonely chambers rang for a moment with this voice, and then all again was silence. He now hurried forth, and hastened... | |
 | Christopher Looby - 1996 - 304 pages
...emptiness of time, and his speech seemed to want to overcome the discontinuities of those unfilled moments: "He called loudly for his wife and children — the lonely chambers rung for a moment with his voice, and then all again was silence."199 If Van Winkle's voice could not fathom or bridge the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1998 - 840 pages
...been. Rip was sorely perplexed. "That flagon last night," thought he, "has addled my poor head sadly!" He entered the house, which to tell the truth, Dame...abandoned. This desolateness overcame all his connubial fears—he called loudly for his wife and children—the lonely chambers rang for a moment with his... | |
 | Jana L. Argersinger, Leland S. Person - 2008 - 398 pages
...its hero's liberation from his shrewish wife, when he surveys his ruined home, he experiences grief: "This desolateness overcame all his connubial fears...loudly for his wife and children: the lonely chambers rang for a moment with his voice, then all again was silence" (48). Eliza Wharton's melancholy faith... | |
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He found the house gone to decay, the roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. A half-starved dog that looked like Wolf was skulking about it. Rip called him by name ; but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This... 
