 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.  The Children's First-fourth Reader - Page 216by California. State Board of Education - 1905Full view - About this book
 | 1820 - 646 pages
...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 erer witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene, but the noise of the balls, which,... | |
 | 1819 - 610 pages
...folks were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained the gravest faces, ihe most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party...thunder. As Rip and his companion approached them, they suddenly désistai! from their play, and stared at him with such fixed statue-like gaze, and such strange,... | |
 | 1820 - 870 pages
...folks were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained the gravest faces, the most mysterious silence, and were withal the most melancholy party...thunder. As Rip and his companion approached them, they suddenly desisted from their play, and stared at him with such fixed statue-like gaze, and such strange... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...folks were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained the gravest faces, the most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party...thunder. As Rip and his companion approached them, they suddenly desisted from their play, and stared at him with such fixed statue-like gaze, and such strange,... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...folks were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained the gravest faces, the most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party...thunder. As Rip and his companion approached them, they suddenly desisted from their play, and stared at him with such fixed statue-like gaze, and such strange,... | |
 | 1821 - 504 pages
...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. No* thing interrupted the stillness of the scene, but the noise of the f balls, which, whenever they... | |
 | 1821 - 502 pages
...scene, but the noise of the * balls, which, whenever they were rolled, echoed along the moun' tains like rumbling peals of thunder. * As Rip and his companion approached them, they suddenh' ' desisted from their play. His companion now emptied the conf tents of the keg into large... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1823 - 392 pages
...themselves, yet they maintained the gravest faces, the most mysterious silengp, and were, witb^al, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever...thunder. As Rip and his companion approached them, they suddenly desisted from their play, and stared at him with such fixed statue-like gaze, and such strange,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...folks were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained the gravest faces, the most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party...thunder. As Rip and his companion approached them, they suddenly desisted from their play, and stared at him with such fixed statue-like gaze, and such strange,... | |
 | 1824 - 394 pages
...they maintained the gravest faces, the most mysterious silence, and were withal, the most malancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene, but the uoUc of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling peals... | |
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