 And your father's name?" "Ah, poor man, Rip Van Winkle was his name, but it's twenty years since he went away from home with his gun, and never has been heard of since,— his dog came home without him; but whether he shot himself, or was carried away...  The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gentn - Page 57by Washington Irving - 1852 - 465 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 pages
...dog came home without him; but whether he shot himself, or was carried away by the Indians, nobody can tell. I was then but a little girl." Rip had but...she broke a blood-vessel in a fit of passion at a New England peddler." There was a drop of comfort, at least, in this intelligence. The honest man could... | |
 | Washington Irving, Arthur Rackham, Pat Stewart - 1983 - 52 pages
...dog came home without him ; but whether he shot himself, or was carried away by the Indians, nobody can tell. I was then but a little girl." Rip had but...she broke a blood-vessel in a fit of passion at a New England peddler." There was a drop of comfort, at least, in this intelligence. The honest man could... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1983 - 1198 pages
...dog came home without him — but whether he shot himself, or was carried away by the Indians no body can tell. I was then but a little girl." Rip had but...too had died but a short time since— she broke a blood vessel in a fit of passion at a New England pedlar. — There was a drop of comfort at least... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1998 - 840 pages
...dog came home without him; but whether he shot himself, or was carried away by the Indians, nobody can tell. I was then but a little girl." Rip had but...since; she broke a bloodvessel in a fit of passion at a New England pedler." There was a drop of comfort, at least, in this intelligence. The honest man could... | |
 | Brian Thomsen - 2002 - 612 pages
...dog came home without him — but whether he shot himself, or was carried away by the Indians no body can tell. I was then but a little girl." Rip had but...too had died but a short time since — she broke a blood vessel in a fit of passion at a New England pedlar. — " There was a drop of comfort at least... | |
 | John Phillips - 2002 - 648 pages
...the contents of his wallet with Wolf, with whom he sympathized as a fellow-sufferer in persecution. Rip had but one question more to ask; but he put it...faltering voice: "Where's your mother?" "Oh, she too... died but a short time since; she broke a blood-vessel in a fit of passion at a New England peddler."... | |
 | Paul Downes - 2002 - 255 pages
...the claiming of an authoritative voice, Irving's Dame Van Winkle is blown apart by her own speech: "she broke a bloodvessel in a fit of passion at a New-England pedler" (782).™ If Dame Van Winkle's character suggests a link between femininity and the embodied force... | |
 | Laurie Rozakis - 2004 - 388 pages
...dog came home without him; but whether he shot himself, or was carried away by the Indians, nobody can tell. I was then but a little girl." Rip had but one question more to ask, but he put it in a faltering voice: "Where's your mother?" "Oh, she too had died but a short time since, she broke... | |
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