 ... to the left. This road leads through a sandy hollow, shaded by trees for about a quarter of a mile, where it crosses the bridge famous in goblin story, and just beyond swells the green knoll on which stands the whitewashed church.  The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon - Page 172by Washington Irving - 1835Full view - About this book
 | 1820 - 870 pages
...fL/ifl st°r%1 cbu -1?6 P4"" "f the steed had given his unskil••; but just as lie had got halfway through the hollow, the girths of the saddle gave...and he felt it slipping from under him. He seized it hy the pommel, and endeavoured to hold it firm, but in vain ; and had just time to save himself hy... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 438 pages
...famous in goblin story, and just beyond swells the green knoll on which stands the whitewashed church. As yet the panic of the steed had given his unskilful rider an apparent advantage in the chace; but just as he had got half way through the hollow, the girths of the saddle gave way, and he... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 pages
...famous in goblin story, and just beyond swells the green knoll pn which stands the whitewashed church. As yet the panic of the steed had given his unskilful...and endeavoured to hold it firm, but in vain ; and had just time to save himself by clasping old Gunpowder round the neck, when the saddle fell to the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1821 - 612 pages
...very track leading to the bridge, where the goblin was in the habit of exhibiting his worst freaks. ' As yet the panic of the steed had given his unskilful...and endeavoured to hold it firm, but in vain; and had just time to save himself by clasping Gunpowder round the neck, when the saddle fell to the earth,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1821 - 596 pages
...very track leading to the bridge, where the goblin was in the habit of exhibiting his worst freaks. ' As yet the panic of the steed had given his unskilful...and endeavoured to hold it firm, but in vain ; and had just time to save himself by clasping Gunpowder round the neck, when the saddle fell to the earth,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Americans - 1821 - 328 pages
...church. As yet the panic of the steed had given his unskilful rider an apparent advantage in the chace; but just as he had got half way through the hollow,...slipping from under him. He seized it by the pommel, and ettdeavoUred to hold it firm, but in vain ; and had JHSt time to save himself by clasping old Gunpowder... | |
 | Washington Irving - England - 1822 - 490 pages
...famous in goblin story, and just beyond swells the green knoll on which stands the whitewashed church. As yet the panic of the steed had given his unskilful...and endeavoured to hold it firm, but in vain; and had just time to save himself by clasping old Gunpowder round the neck, when the saddle fell to the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
...famous in goblin story; and just beyond swells the green knoll on which stands the whitewashed church. As yet the panic of the steed had given his unskilful...apparent advantage in the chase ; but just as he had got half-way through the hollow, the girths of the saddle gave way, and he felt it slipping from under... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1830 - 346 pages
...famous in goblin story, and just beyond swells the green knoll on which stands the whitewashed church. As yet the panic of the steed had given his unskilful...and endeavoured to hold it firm, but in vain ; and had just time to save himself by clasping old Gunpowder round the neck, when the saddle fell to the... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1831 - 518 pages
...knoll on which stands the whitewashed church. As yet the panic of the steed had given his unskilill rider an apparent advantage in the chase ; but just as he had got half-way through the hollow, the girths of the saddle gave way, and he felt it slipping from under... | |
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