 | Friedrich Wilhelm P. Oertel - 1870 - 244 pages
...anxiety, turned his steps homeward. As he approached the village he met a number of people, but none whom he knew, which somewhat surprised him, for he had...with equal marks of surprise, and, whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture induced... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 pages
...homeward. RIP VAN WINKLE. PAUT III. As he approached the village he met a number of people, but none whom he knew, which somewhat surprised him, for he had...with equal marks of surprise, and whenever they cast their eyes upon him invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture induced... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 pages
...shouldered the rusty firelock, and, with a heart full of trouble and anxiety, turned his steps homeward. was accustomed. They all stared at him with equal marks of surprise, and, whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture induced... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 pages
...anxiety, turned his steps homeward. An he approached the village he met a number of people, but none whom he knew, which somewhat surprised him, for he had...invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture induced Rip, involuntarily, to do the same, when to his astonishment he found his beard... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...anxiety, turned his steps homeward. As he approached the village he met a number of people, but none whom he knew, which somewhat surprised him, for he had...invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture induced Rip, involuntarily, to do the same, when, to his astonishment, he found his beard... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 pages
...turned his steps homeward. 5. As he approached the village he met a number of people, but none whom he knew ; which somewhat surprised him, for he had...with equal marks of surprise, and, whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture induced... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1878 - 450 pages
...anxiety, turned his steps homeward. As he approached the village, he met a number of people, but none whom he knew, which somewhat surprised him, for he had...with equal marks of surprise, and whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture induced... | |
 | Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1878 - 186 pages
...anxiety, turned his steps homeward. As he approached the village he met a number of people, but none whom he knew, which somewhat surprised him, for he had...with equal marks of surprise, and whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture induced... | |
 | Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1878 - 206 pages
...village he met a number of people, but none whom he knew, which somewhat surprised him, for he had 345 thought himself acquainted with every one in the country...with equal marks of surprise, and whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this sat gesture induced... | |
 | 1880 - 516 pages
...anxiety, turued his steps homeward. As he approached the village he met a number of people, but none whom he knew, which somewhat surprised him, for he had...with equal marks of surprise, and whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture induced... | |
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... gun ; he dreaded to meet his wife ; but it would not do to starve among the mountains. He shook his head, shouldered the rusty firelock, and, with a heart full of trouble and anxiety, turned his steps homeward. As he approached the village he met... 
