 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
![The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gentn. [pseud.]](http://bks9.books.google.co.nz/books?id=coUYAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gentn. [pseud.]") | Washington Irving - 1892 - 406 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - Van Winkle, Rip (Fictitious character) - 1893 - 218 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...fearful shapes and shadows beset his path amidst the ' \Vhat fearful shapes and shadows beset his path amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night!"... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1894
...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...subsequent walk homewards. What fearful shapes and shadows besot his path, amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night ! — With what wistful look did... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 404 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...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 - Literary Criticism - 1894 - 391 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...of a chamber that was all of a ruddy glow from the crackling'wood fire, and where, of course, no spectre dared to show his face, it was dearly purchased... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894
...the Farmers whose Children he Instructed^' - : ,; , /*". OC Darlcy. \ Cbe XegenO of Sleeps fjollow 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... | |
 | Kate Stephens - 1895
...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...dearly purchased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homeward. What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amid the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848
...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...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 - 1896 - 386 pages
...alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half'the time topsy-turvy f But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly...the chimney corner of a chamber that was all of a cuddy glow from the crackling wood fire, and where, of course, no spectre dared to show his face, i&j,vasdearly... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 218 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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