Nay, his busy fancy already realized his hopes, and presented to him the blooming Katrina, with a whole family of children, mounted on the top of a waggon loaded with household trumpery, with pots and kettles dangling beneath ; and he beheld himself bestriding... The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent - Page 271by Washington Irving - 1821Full view - About this book
| 1820 - 870 pages
...the warm tenement of Van Tassel, his heart yearned after the damsel who was to inherit these domains. When he entered the house, the conquest of his heart was complete. — From the moment Ichahod laid his eyes upon these regions of delight, the peace of his mind was... | |
| Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 pages
...not a turkey, but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savoury sausages ; and even bright chanticleer...his heart was complete. It was one of those spacious farm-houses, with high ridged, but lowly-sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first... | |
| Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savoury sausages; and even bright chanticleer...his heart was complete. It was one of those spacious farm-houses, with high-ridged, but lowly-sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first... | |
| Washington Irving - American essays - 1830 - 346 pages
...not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savoury sausages ; and even bright chanticleer...for Kentucky, Tennessee, or the Lord knows where. A Rival Among these the most formidable was a burly, roaring, roystering blade, of the name of Abraham,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 pages
...immense tracts of wild land, and shingle palaces in the wilderness. Nay, his busy fancy already realised his hopes, and presented to him the blooming Katrina,...his heart was complete. It was one of those spacious farm-houses, with high ridged, but lowly sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first... | |
| Washington Irving - 1835 - 194 pages
...even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back , in a side dish , with uplifted rl.-iwi, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit...his heart was complete. It was one of those spacious farm-houses, with high-ridged , but lowly-sloping roofs, built ill the style handed down from the first... | |
| Washington Irving - American essays - 1835 - 284 pages
...presented to him the blooming Katrina, with a whole family of children, mounted on the top of a wagon loaded with household trumpery, with pots and kettles...dangling beneath ; and he beheld himself bestriding a pacingmare, with a colt at her heels, setting out for Kentucky, Tennessee, or the Lord knows where.... | |
| Washington Irving - Americans - 1843 - 458 pages
...lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buck-wheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burdened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm tenement...his heart was complete. It was one of those spacious farmhouses, with high-ridged, but lowly-sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first... | |
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