 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 438 pages
...they dashed, through thick and thin; stones flying, and sparks flashing, at every bound. Ichabod's flimsy garments fluttered in the air, as he stretched...his horse's head, in the eagerness of his flight. They had now reached the road which turns off to Sleepy Hollow; but Gunpowder, who seemed possessed... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 pages
...they dashed, through thick and thin; stones flying, and sparks flashing, at every bound. Ichabod's flimsy garments fluttered in the air, as he stretched...his horse's head, in the eagerness of his flight. They had now reached the road which turns off to Sleepy Hollow ; but Gunpowder, who seemed possessed... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...they dashed, through thick and thin ; stones flying, and sparks flashing, at every bound. Ichabod's flimsy garments fluttered in the air, as he stretched...his horse's head, in the eagerness of his flight. They had now reached the road which turns off to Sleepy Hollow ; but Gunpowder, who seemed possessed... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - Amusements - 1827 - 918 pages
...within a few feet of the audience, and then suddenly vanished. After an instant of utter darkness, the figure was again visible at a great distance ;...hard upon him ; he was not more than a yard behind him, when he was seen to take up his head, and with gigantic force to hurl it at the pedagogue; it... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - Science - 1827 - 234 pages
...horror. Crane arrived at the bridge, over which the headless figure opposed his passage. " Mercy 80 upon us !" cried a faint voice from one of the back...hard upon him ; he was not more than a yard behind him, when he was seen to take up his head, and with gigantic force to hurl it at the pedagogue ; it... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1830 - 346 pages
...they dashed, through thick and thin ; stones flying, and sparks flashing, at every bound. Ichabod's flimsy garments fluttered in the air, as he stretched...his horse's head, in the eagerness of his flight. They had now reached the road which turns off to Sleepy Hollow ; but Gunpowder, who seemed possessed... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 pages
...they dashed, through thick and thin ; stones flying, and sparks flashing, at every bound. Ichabod's flimsy garments fluttered in the air, as he stretched...his horse's head, in the eagerness of his flight. They had now reached the road which turns off to Sleepy Hollow; but Gunpowder, who seemed possessed... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1835 - 284 pages
...they dashed, through thick and thin ; stones flying, and sparks flashmg, at every bound. Ichabod's flimsy garments fluttered in the air, as he stretched...his horse's head, in the eagerness of his flight. They had now reached the road which turns off to Sleepy Hollow; but Gunpowder, who seemed possessed... | |
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Gunpowder, hoping by a sudden movement to give his companion the slip; but the spectre started full jump with him. Away, then, they dashed through thick and thin, stones flying and sparks flashing at every bound. Ichabod's flimsy garments fluttered in... 
