 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 422 pages
...whole group reminded Rip of the figures in an old Flemish painting in the parlor of Dominie Van Shaick, the village parson, and which had been brought over...most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 160 pages
...group reminded Rip of the figures in an old Flemish painting in the parlor of Dominie Van Schaick, the village parson, and which had been brought over...most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1893 - 318 pages
...usual alacrity, and mutually relieving each ether, they clambered up a narrow gully." — P. 52. S9 parson, and which had been brought over from Holland...amusing themselves, yet they maintained the gravest " The noise of the balls, "which. whenever they were rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 422 pages
...group reminded Rip of the figures in an old Flemish painting, in the parlor of Dominie Yan Shaick, the village parson, and which had been brought over...most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1894 - 462 pages
...group reminded Rip of the figures in an old Flemish painting, in the parlor of Dominie Van Schaick, the village parson, and which had been brought over...most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he liad ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 234 pages
...group reminded Rip of the figures in an old Flemish painting, in the parlor of Dominie Van Shaick, the village parson, and which had been brought over...most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 280 pages
...group reminded Rip of the figures in an old 6 Flemish painting, in the parlour of Dominie Van Schaick, the village parson, and which had been brought over...settlement. What seemed particularly odd to Rip was, that 10 though these folk were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained the gravest faces, the... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 396 pages
...group reminded Rip of the figures in an old Flemish painting, in the parlor of Dominie Van Schaick, the village parson, and which had been brought over...most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 482 pages
...group reminded Rip of the figures in an old Flemish painting, in the parlor of Dominie Van Shaick, the village parson, and which had been brought over...most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 pages
...group reminded Rip of the figures in an old Flemish painting, in the parlor of Dominie Van Schaick, the village parson, and which had been brought over...most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene... | |
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What 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. 
