 He saw at a distance the lordly Hudson, far, far below him, moving on its silent but majestic course, with the reflection of a purple cloud, or the sail of a lagging bark, here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom, and at last losing itself in the blue...  Practical Lessons in English Grammar and Composition - Page 203by Henry Pendexter Emerson, Ida Catherine Bender - 1911 - 376 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ellen M. Cyr - 1899 - 404 pages
...he threw himself, late in the afternoon, on a green knoll that crowned the brow of a precipice. 8. From an opening between the trees he could overlook...reflection of a purple cloud or the sail of a lagging bark here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom and at last losing itself in the blue highlands. For... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - 1899 - 412 pages
...he threw himself, late in the afternoon, on a green knoll that crowned the brow of a precipice. 8. From an opening between the trees he could overlook...reflection of a purple cloud or the sail of a lagging bark here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom and at last losing itself in the blue highlands. For... | |
 | Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 pages
...and the still solitudes had echoed and reechoed with the reports of his gun. Panting and fatigued, he threw himself, late in the afternoon, on a green knoll,...reflection of a purple cloud, or the sail of a lagging bark, here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom, and at last losing itself in the blue highlands.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1983 - 1198 pages
...and the still solitudes had echoed and reechoed with the reports of his gun. Panting and fatigued he threw himself, late in the afternoon, on a green knoll,...reflection of a purple cloud, or the sail of a lagging bark here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom, and at last losing itself in the blue highlands.... | |
 | Washington Irving, Arthur Rackham, Pat Stewart - 1983 - 52 pages
...the still solitudes had echoed and re-echoed with the reports of his gun. Panting and fatigued, he threw himself, late in the afternoon, on a green knoll,...reflection of a purple cloud, or the sail of a lagging bark, here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom, and at last losing itself in the blue highlands.... | |
 | Hans Huth - 1990 - 368 pages
...what Rip van Winkle beheld when he looked down from the site of present Catskill Mountain House and saw at a distance "the lordly Hudson, far, far below...reflection of a purple cloud, or the sail of a lagging bark, here and there sleeping on its grassy bosom, and at last losing itself in the blue highlands."26... | |
 | John Bryant - 1993 - 331 pages
...a precipice," Rip "muses" on the vista before him. One side "overlook[s] all of the lower country.. .the lordly Hudson, far, far below him, moving on...reflection of a purple cloud, or the sail of a lagging bark here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom" (Rip, 33). This world of repose, the sunset of Monarchy,... | |
 | Stephen P. Stanne - 1996 - 242 pages
...Hudson and the Catskills and join with Rip who, looking down from the Catskill Mountain House, saw "the lordly Hudson, far, far below him moving on its silent but majestic course." Irving's Knickerbocker friends James Kirke Paulding and William Cullen Bryant also contributed to the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1998 - 840 pages
...the still solitudes had echoed and re-echoed with the reports of his gun. Panting and fatigued, he threw himself, late in the afternoon, on a green knoll,...reflection of a purple cloud, or the sail of a lagging bark, here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom, and at last losing itself in the blue highlands.... | |
 | Brian Thomsen - 2002 - 612 pages
...and the still solitudes had echoed and re-echoed with the reports of his gun. Panting and fatigued he threw himself, late in the afternoon, on a green knoll,...reflection of a purple cloud, or the sail of a lagging bark here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom, and at last losing itself in the blue highlands.... | |
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