 | Thomas Hood - 1869 - 260 pages
...his eyes — it was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft, and breasting the...party at ninepins— the flagon — " Oh ! that flagon I that wicked flagon !" thought Itip ; " what excuse shall I make to Dame Van Winkle ?" He looked round... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm P. Oertel - 1870 - 244 pages
...his eyes — it was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft, and breasting the...wicked flagon ! " thought Rip : " what excuse shall I make to Dame Van Winkle ? " He looked round for his gun ; but, in the place of the clean well-oiled... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 pages
...twittering among the bushes ; and the eagle was wheeling aloft, and breasting ihe pure mountain-breeze. " Surely," thought Rip, " I have not slept here all...asleep, — the strange man with a keg of liquor, the msuntain-ravine, the wild retreat among the rocks, the woebegone party at ninepins, the flagon. "Oh... | |
 | 1872 - 660 pages
...the occurrences before he fell asleep, — the strange man with a keg of liquor, the nnuntain-ravine, the wild retreat among the rocks, the woebegone party...wicked flagon ! " thought Rip. " What excuse shall I make to Dame Van Winkle?" oiled fowling-piece, he found an old firelock lying by him, the -barrel... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 pages
...morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft, breasting the pure mountain breeze. " Surely," thought...He recalled the occurrences before he fell asleep. Thestrange man with the keg of liquor, the mountain ravine, the wild retreat among the rocks, the woe-begone... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 pages
...his eyes — it was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, elf with watching all that goca on in the kitchen! Think, I beseech you, how you would like Kip, "I have not slept here all night." He recalled the occurrences before he fell asleep. The strange... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 pages
...rubbed his eyes—it was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft, and breasting the...before he fell asleep. The strange man with a keg of liquor—the mountain ravine—the wild retreat among the rocks—the woe-begone party at ninepins—the... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...It was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eaglo was wheeling aloft, and breasting the pure mountain...wicked flagon !" thought Rip; " what excuse shall I make to Dame Van Winkle ? " He looked round for his gun, but in place of the clean, well-oiled fowling-piece,... | |
 | Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 pages
...his eyes — it was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft and breasting the pure mountain breeze. " Surely," thought Rip, " I must have slept here all night." With an anxious heart Rip turned his steps homeward, wondering what... | |
 | Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1878 - 186 pages
...his eyes, — it was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft, and breasting the...wicked flagon ! " thought Rip; "what excuse shall I make to Dame Van Winkle?" He looked round for his gun, but in place of the clean, well-oiled fowling-piece,... | |
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On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes — it was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft, and breasting... 
