 Connecticut ; and would frighten them wofully with speculations upon comets and shooting stars ; and with the alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsyturvy ! But if there was a pleasure in all this,...  The Quarterly Review - Page 60by William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - 1882
...alarming fnct that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsy-turvy ! But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly...fire, and where, of course, no spectre dared to show his face, it was dearly purchased by the, terrors of his subsequent walk homewards. What fearful shapes... | |
 | Washington Irving, Richard Henry Stoddard - Literary Collections - 1882
...they were half the time topsy-turvy ! But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly cjddling in the chimney corner of a chamber that was all of...face, it was dearly purchased by the terrors of his j watching the weather, some with their heads under subsequent walk homewards. What fearful shapes... | |
 | Washington Irving - History - 1882 - 240 pages
...alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsy-turvy ! But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly...the crackling wood fire, and where, of course, no specter dare to show its face, it was dearly purchased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homeward.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1885 - 379 pages
...alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsyturvy ! But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly...fire, and where, of course, no spectre dared to show his face, it was dearly purchased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homewards. What fearful shapes... | |
 | Literary Criticism - 1885
...alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round and that they were half the time topsy-turvy. But if there was a pleasure in all this while snugly cuddling in the chimney-corner of a chamber that was all of a ruddy glow from the crackling wood-fire, and where, of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1888
...alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsyturvy ! But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly cuddling in the chimney-corner of a chamber that was all of a ruddy glow from the crackling wood fire, and where, of... | |
 | 1871
...alarming face that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were hali th« time topey-turvey 1 But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly cuddling in the chimney-corner of a obambur that was all of a ruddy glow from the crackling •wood fire, and where,... | |
 | Washington Irving - History - 1891 - 246 pages
...alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsy-turvy I But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly...all of a ruddy glow from the crackling wood fire, ana where, of course, no spectre dared to show its face, it was dearly purchased by the terrors of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 149 pages
...alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsyturvy. But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly...the crackling wood fire, and where, of course, no specter dared to show its face, it was dearly purchased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homewards.... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - Literary Criticism - 1892 - 541 pages
...alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsy-turvy ! But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly cuddling in the chimney-corner of a chamber that was all of a ruddy glow from the crackling wood-fire, and where, of... | |
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