 They declare that they have heard him, in stormy weather, in the midst of the turmoil, giving orders in low Dutch for the piping up of a fresh gust of wind, or the rattling off of another thunder-clap.  English country gentlemen - Page 212by Washington Irving - 1835Full view - About this book
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...with a speaking-trumpet in his hand, which they say keeps about the Dunderberg *. They declare that they have heard him, in stormy weather, in the midst...imps in broad breeches and short doublets ; tumbling head over heels in the rack and mist, and playing a thousand gambols in the air ; or buzzing like a... | |
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...with a speaking trumpet in his hand, which they say keeps about the Dunderberg*. They declare that they have heard him, in stormy weather, in the midst...wind, or the rattling off of another thunderclap. That some* ie " TheThunder Mountain," so called from its echoes. times he has been seen surrounded by a... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 412 pages
...with a speaking trumpet in his hand, which they say keeps about the Dunderberg*. They declare that they have heard him, in stormy weather, in the midst...wind, or the rattling off of another thunderclap. That some* i- e, "The Thunder Mountain, "so called from its echoes. times he has been seen surrounded by... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 404 pages
...with a speaking trumpet in his hand, which they say keeps about the Dunderberg*. They declare that they have heard him, in stormy weather, in the midst...wind, or the rattling off of another thunderclap. That some* ie "The Thunder Mountain," so called from its echoes. 124 ELEGANT EXTRACTS. ' P. VII. times he... | |
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...keeps about the Dunderberg, (ie the "Thundermountain." so called from its echoes.) They declare that they have heard him, in stormy weather, in the midst,...sometimes he has been seen surrounded by a crew of little hups in broad breeches and short doublets? lam bling head over heels in the rack and mist, and playing... | |
 | Josiah Conder - North America - 1830 - 396 pages
...with a speaking trumpet in his hand, which, they say, keeps about the Dunderberg. They declare that they have heard him, in stormy weather, in the midst...piping up of a fresh gust of wind- or the rattling oft" of another thunderclap." At Pollopol's Island, the jurisdiction of the Dunderberg potentate ceases;... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...with a speaking trumpet in his hand, which they say keeps about the Dunderberg.* They declare that they have heard him, in stormy weather, in the midst...Dutch for the piping up of a fresh gust of wind, or • That \", tlw " Thunder Mountain," §o called from in ecno«» the rattling off of another thunder-clap... | |
 | American literature - 1836 - 342 pages
...speakingtrum[iet in his hand ; which they say kceps about the Dunderberg Mountain. They declare that they have heard him, in stormy weather, in the midst of the turmoil, giving orders in Low Duteh for the piping up of a fresh gust of wind, or the rattling off of another thunder-clap. That... | |
 | Washington Irving - American fiction - 1845 - 412 pages
...with a speaking-trumpet in his hand, which they say keeps about the Dunderberg.* They declare that they have heard him, in stormy weather, in the midst...imps in broad breeches and short doublets ; tumbling head over heels in the rack and mist, and playing a thousand gambols in the air ; or buzzing like a... | |
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