 ... seemed particularly odd to Rip was, that though these folks were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained the gravest faces, the most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing...  The Illustrated Parlour Miscellany - Page 1201849 - 325 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Hood - 1869 - 260 pages
...melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled,...together. His companion now emptied the contents of the keg into large flagons, and made signs to him to wait upon the company. He obeyed with fear and trembling;... | |
 | Thomas Streatfeild Clarkson - 1869 - 358 pages
...ancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls, which . whenever they were rolled...along the mountains like rumbling peals of thunder ; and the Dutch inhabitants near the Katsbergs, even to this day, never hear a thunder storm of a summer... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm P. Oertel - 1870 - 244 pages
...melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled,...together. His companion now emptied the contents of the keg into large flagons, and made signs to him to wait upon the company. He obeyed with fear and trembling;... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 pages
...party of pleasure that he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled,...together. His companion now emptied the contents of the keg into large flagons, and made signs to him to wait upon the company. He obeyed with fear and trembling... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 pages
...melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled,...fixed, statuelike gaze, and such strange, uncouth, lack-luster countenances, that his heart turned within him, and his knees smote together. His companion... | |
 | 1872 - 660 pages
...their play, and stared at him with such fixed, statuelike gaze, and such strange, uncouth, lack-luster countenances, that his heart turned within him, and...together. His companion now emptied the contents of the keg into large flagons, and made signs to him to wait on the company. He obeyed with fear and trembling.... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 pages
...melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness ol the scene but the Earth ! I know thee, and the powers which give thee...for a man of many thoughts, And deeds of good and i hie companion approached them, they suddenly desisted from their play, and stared at him with such... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 pages
...melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled,...along the mountains like rumbling peals of thunder. obeyed with fear and trembling ; they quaffed the liquor in profound silence, and then returncd to... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled,...together. His companion now emptied the contents of the keg into largo flagons, and made signs to him to wait upon the company. He obeyed with fear and trembling... | |
 | Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 pages
...themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd-looking personages playing at ninepins. As Rip and his companion approached them, they suddenly...desisted from their play, and stared at him with such a fixed statue-like gaze, r.nd such strange, uncouth, lack-lustre countenances, that his heart turned... | |
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