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" ... insisted that Rip had been out of his head, and that this was one point on which he always remained flighty. The old Dutch inhabitants, however, almost universally gave it full credit. Even to this day they never hear a thunderstorm of a summer afternoon... "
The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent. Artist's ed - Page 79
by Washington Irving - 1865
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Harper's First [-sixth] Reader, Book 5

Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889 - 524 pages
...summer afternoon about the Kaatskill, but - they say Hendrick Hudson and his crew are at their game ofii ninepins ; and it is a common wish of all henpecked...a quieting draught out of Rip Van Winkle's flagon. XL VIII. THE CLOSING YEAR. BY GEORGE D. PEENTICE.i 'Tis midnight's holy hour, and silence now Is brooding...
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The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...

Washington Irving - 1890 - 570 pages
...day they never hear a thunderstorm of a summer afternoon about the Kaatskill, but they say Hendrick Hudson and his crew are at their game of nine-pins...hands, that they might have a quieting draught out of Pap Van Winkle's flagon. NOTE. The foregoing Tale, one would suspect, had been suggested to Mr. Knickerbocker...
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Essays from the Sketch Book

Washington Irving - 1891 - 278 pages
...afternoon about the Kaatskill, but they say Hendrick Hudson and his crew are at their game of uinepins ; and it is a common wish of all henpecked husbands...German superstition about the Emperor Frederick der Rothbart,1 and the Kypphattser mountain ; the subjoined note, however, which he had appended to the...
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Essays from The Sketch Book, Parts 1-2

Washington Irving - 1891 - 270 pages
...day they never hear a thunder-storm of a summer afternoon about the Kaatskill, bat they say Hendrick Hudson and his crew are at their game of ninepins...hands, that they might have a quieting draught out of Kip Van Winkle's flagon. NOTE. The foregoing Tale, one would suspect, had been suggested to Mr. Knickerbocker...
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Rip Van Winkle: And Other American Essays from The Sketch-book

Washington Irving - 1891 - 140 pages
...day they never hear a thunder-storm of a summer afternoon about the Kaatskill, but they say Hendrick Hudson and his crew are at their game of ninepins...hands, that they might have a quieting draught out of Kip Van Winkle's flagon. NOTE. The foregoing Tale, one would suspect, had been suggested to Mr. Knickerbocker...
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Masterpieces of American Literature: Franklin, Irving, Bryant, Webster ...

1891 - 508 pages
...day they never hear a thunder-storm of a summer afternoon about the Kaatskill, but they say Hendrick Hudson and his crew are at their game of ninepins...hands, that they might have a quieting draught out of Kip Van Winkle's flagon. NOTE. The foregoing Tale, one would suspect, had been suggested to Mr. Knickerbocker...
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Essays from The Sketch Book

Washington Irving - 1891 - 276 pages
...neighborhood, when life hangs heavy on their hands, that they might have a quieting draught out of Kip Van Winkle's flagon. NOTE. The foregoing Tale, one...German superstition about the Emperor Frederick der Rothbart,l and the Kypphaiiser mountain ; the subjoined note, however, which he had appended to the...
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Living Thoughts in Words that Burn, from Poet, Sage and Humorist

Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 pages
...afternoon about the Kaatskill, but they say Hendrick Hudson and his crew are at their game of nine pins; and it is a common wish of all henpecked husbands in the neighbourhood, when life hangs heavy on their hands, that they might have a quieting draught out of...
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Ten Selections from The Sketch-book

Washington Irving - 1892 - 242 pages
...day they never hear a thunderstorm of a summer afternoon about the Catskill, but they say Hendrick Hudson and his crew are at their game of ninepins...German superstition about the Emperor Frederick der Kothbart and the Kyphauser Mountain ; the subjoined note, however, which he had appended to the tale,...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gentn. [pseud.]

Washington Irving - 1892 - 422 pages
...day they never hear a thunderstorm of a summer afternoon about the Kaatskill but they say Hendrick Hudson and his crew are at their game of nine-pins...hands, that they might have a quieting draught out of liip Van Winkle's flagon. KOTE. Tlie foregoing tale, one would suspect, had been suggested to Mr. Knickerbocker...
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