Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" ... surrounded by perpendicular precipices, over the brinks of which, impending trees shot their branches, so that you only caught glimpses of the azure sky, and the bright evening cloud. "
The Portfolio of Entertaining & Instructive Varieties in History, Literature ... - Page 294
1824
Full view - About this book

American Prose: Selections

George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 494 pages
...During the whole time Rip and his companion had labored on in silence ; for though the former marvelled greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg...On entering the amphitheatre, new objects of wonder piesented themselves. On a level spoi in the centre was a company of oddlooking personages playing...
Full view - About this book

Choice Literature ... for Intermediate Grades, Book 1

1898 - 200 pages
...During the whole time, Rip and his companion had labored on in silence; for though the former marveled greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg...inspired awe and checked familiarity. On entering the amphitheater, new objects of wonder presented themselves. On a level spot in the center was a company...
Full view - About this book

The Children's First [ -fourth] Reader, Book 4

Ellen M. Cyr - 1898 - 410 pages
...During the whole time Rip and his companion had labored on in silence ; for though the former marveled greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg...this wild mountain, yet there was something strange about the unknown that inspired awe and checked familiarity. 12. On entering the hollow, new objects...
Full view - About this book

The Hudson River in Literature: An Anthology

Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 pages
...During the whole time Rip and his companion had labored on in silence; for though the former marvelled greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg...presented themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd-looking personages playing at ninepins. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion;...
Limited preview - About this book

Washington Irving: History, Tales & Sketches (LOA #16): The Sketch Book / A ...

Washington Irving - 1983 - 1198 pages
...During the whole time Rip and his companion had laboured on in silence, for though the former marvelled greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg...presented themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd looking personages playing at ninepins. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion...
Limited preview - About this book

Rip Van Winkle Coloring Book

Washington Irving, Arthur Rackham, Pat Stewart - 1983 - 52 pages
...During the whole time Rip and his companion had labored on in silence; for though the former marvelled greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg...presented themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd-looking personages playing at nine-pins. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion;...
Limited preview - About this book

Melville and Repose: The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance

John Bryant - 1993 - 331 pages
...produce Rip's regeneration. Cockloft Hall is a day in the country, not the "wild mountain" sublime where "there was something strange and incomprehensible...unknown, that inspired awe and checked familiarity" (Rip, 34). But while Rip finds something more than the pastoral, he also experiences something other...
Limited preview - About this book

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving, Thea Kliros - 1995 - 84 pages
...During the whole time Rip and his companion had laboured on in silence; for though the former marvelled greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg...presented themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd-looking personages playing at ninepins.2 They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion;...
Limited preview - About this book

The Complete Tales Of Washington Irving

Washington Irving - 1998 - 840 pages
...During the whole time Rip and his companion had labored on in silence; for though the former marvelled greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg...presented themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd-looking personages playing at ninepins. They were dressed in a quaint, outlandish fashion;...
Limited preview - About this book

The American Fantasy Tradition

Brian Thomsen - 2002 - 612 pages
...During the whole time Rip and his companion had laboured on in silence, for though the former marvelled greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg...presented themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd looking personages playing at ninepins. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion...
Limited preview - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF