 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 pages
...hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn- — but it too was gone. A large rickety wooden building stood in its place, with great gaping...now was reared a tall naked pole, with something on the top that looked like a red nightcap, and from it was fluttering a flag, on which was a singular... | |
 | Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 pages
...hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn—but it too was gone. A large rickety wooden building stood in its place, with great gaping...now was reared a tall naked pole, with something on the top that looked like a red night-cap, and from it was fluttering a flag, on which was a singular... | |
 | Washington Irving, Arthur Rackham, Pat Stewart - 1983 - 52 pages
...hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn — but it too was gone. A large rickety wooden building stood in its place, with great gaping...now was reared a tall naked pole, with something on the top that looked like a red night-cap, and from it was fluttering a flag, on which was a singular... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1983 - 1198 pages
...hurried forth and hastened to his old resort, the village inn — but it too was gone. A large, ricketty wooden building stood in its place, with great gaping...with old hats and petticoats, and over the door was printed "The Union Hotel, by Jonathan Doolittle." Instead of the great tree, that used to shelter the... | |
 | Gustavo Pérez Firmat - 1990 - 416 pages
...been replaced by the Yankee Jonathan Doolittle's Union Hotel, "a large, rickety wooden building . . . with great gaping windows, some of them broken, and mended with old hats and petticoats. ..." The noble tree in front of the inn is gone, and in its place is "a tall naked pole with something... | |
 | Gustavo Pérez Firmat - 1990 - 412 pages
...with old hats and petticoats. ..." The noble tree in front of the inn is gone, and in its place is "a tall naked pole with something on top that looked like a red night cap. ..." Worst of all, as a result of the arrival of democracy and its accompanying politics, "The very... | |
 | Allan Lloyd Smith, Victor Sage - 1994 - 256 pages
...egregiously phallic 'tall naked pole with something on top that looked like a red night cap' has repulsed 'the great tree, that used to shelter the quiet little Dutch inn of yore' (p. 37). Instead Rip reclaims the maternal garden safe forever in a dyad that combines Eros and security.... | |
 | Christopher Looby - 1996 - 304 pages
...hurried forth and hastened to his old resort, the village inn — but it too was gone. A large, ricketty wooden building stood in its place, with great gaping...with old hats and petticoats, and over the door was printed "The Union Hotel, by Jonathan Doolittle." Instead of the great tree, that used to shelter the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1998 - 840 pages
...hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn, but it too was gone. A large rickety wooden building stood in its place, with great gaping...pole, with something on top that looked like a red night-cap, and from it was fluttering a flag, on which was a singular assemblage of stars and stripes;—all... | |
 | Washington Irving, Haskell S. Springer - 1999 - 372 pages
...windows, some of them broken, and mended with old hats and petticoats, and over the door was printed "The Union Hotel, by Jonathan Doolittle." Instead...like a red night cap, and from it was fluttering a flag on which was a singular assemblage of stars and stripes— all this was strange and incomprehensible.... | |
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He now hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn. But it, too, was gone. A large, rickety wooden building stood in its place, with great gaping windows, some of them broken and mended with old hats and petticoats, and over the door... 
