 There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin, piping voice, "Nicholas Vedder! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There was a wooden tombstone in the churchyard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten...  Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent - Page 60by Washington Irving - 1860 - 465 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1888 - 366 pages
...a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin, piping voice, " Nicholas Vedder ! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years ! There...him, but that's rotten and gone too." "Where's Brom Dutcher?" " Oh, he went off to the army in the beginning of the war. Some say he was killed at the... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin piping voice, " Nicholas Vedder ! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There...him, but that's rotten and gone too." "Where's Brom Dutcher? " " Oh, he went off to the army in the beginning of the war; some say he was killed at the... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889 - 524 pages
...silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin, piping voice, " Nicholas Ved- s der ? why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years ! There...him, but that's rotten and gone too." " Where's Brom Dutcher ?" .o " Oh, he went off to the army in the beginning of the war ; some say he was killed in... | |
 | John Kneeland, Henry Nathan Wheeler - 1891 - 508 pages
...a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin, piping voice: " Nicholas Vedder i why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There...tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too." " Where 's Brom Dutcher ? " " Oh, he went off to the army in the beginning of the war; some say he... | |
 | 1891 - 432 pages
...silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin, piping voice : " Nicholas Vedder ! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There...tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too." " Where 's Brom Dutcher ? " " Oh, he went off to the army in the beginning of the war; some say he... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 140 pages
...silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin, piping voice : " Nicholas Vedder ! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years ! There...the churchyard that used to tell all about him, but that 's rotten and gone too." " Where 's Brom Dutcher ? " " Oh, he went off to the army in the beginning... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 278 pages
...silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin, piping voice : " Nicholas Vedder ! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years ! There...the churchyard that used to tell all about him, but that 's rotten and gone too." " Where 's Brom Dutcher ? " " Oh, he went off to the army in the beginning... | |
 | 1891 - 508 pages
...churchyard that used to tell all about him, but that 's rotten and gone too." "Where 's Brom Dutcher? " " Oh, he went off to the army in the beginning of the...some say he was killed at the storming of Stony Point l — others say he was drowned in a squall at the foot of Antony's Nose.2 I don't know — he never... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 pages
...Rip bethought himself a moment, and inquired, "Where's Nicholas Vedder?" " Where's Brom Dutcher?" " Oh, he went off to the army in the beginning of the war; some say he was killed at the storming of Stoney Point; others say he was drowned in a squall at the foot of Antony's Nose. I don't know, but... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 276 pages
...replied, in a thin, piping voice : " Nicholas Vedder ! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years I There was a wooden tombstone in the churchyard that used to tell all about him, but that 's rotten and gone too." "Where 's Brom Butcher? " " Oh, he vrent off to the army in the beginning... | |
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