| George Rice Carpenter - American literature - 1898 - 494 pages
...During the whole time Rip and his companion had labored on in silence ; for though the former marvelled greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg...On entering the amphitheatre, new objects of wonder piesented themselves. On a level spoi in the centre was a company of oddlooking personages playing... | |
| Readers - 1898 - 200 pages
...During the whole time, Rip and his companion had labored on in silence; for though the former marveled greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg...inspired awe and checked familiarity. On entering the amphitheater, new objects of wonder presented themselves. On a level spot in the center was a company... | |
| Ellen M. Cyr - Readers - 1898 - 412 pages
...During the whole time Rip and his companion had labored on in silence ; for though the former marveled greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg...this wild mountain, yet there was something strange about the unknown that inspired awe and checked familiarity. 12. On entering the hollow, new objects... | |
| Arthur G. Adams - Literary Criticism - 1980 - 356 pages
...During the whole time Rip and his companion had labored on in silence; for though the former marvelled greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg...presented themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd-looking personages playing at ninepins. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion;... | |
| Washington Irving - Fiction - 1983 - 1198 pages
...During the whole time Rip and his companion had laboured on in silence, for though the former marvelled greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg...presented themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd looking personages playing at ninepins. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion... | |
| Washington Irving, Arthur Rackham, Pat Stewart - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1983 - 52 pages
...During the whole time Rip and his companion had labored on in silence; for though the former marvelled greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg...presented themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd-looking personages playing at nine-pins. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion;... | |
| John Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 331 pages
...produce Rip's regeneration. Cockloft Hall is a day in the country, not the "wild mountain" sublime where "there was something strange and incomprehensible...unknown, that inspired awe and checked familiarity" (Rip, 34). But while Rip finds something more than the pastoral, he also experiences something other... | |
| Washington Irving, Thea Kliros - Juvenile Fiction - 1995 - 84 pages
...During the whole time Rip and his companion had laboured on in silence; for though the former marvelled greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg...presented themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd-looking personages playing at ninepins.2 They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion;... | |
| Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 840 pages
...During the whole time Rip and his companion had labored on in silence; for though the former marvelled greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg...presented themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd-looking personages playing at ninepins. They were dressed in a quaint, outlandish fashion;... | |
| Brian Thomsen - Fiction - 2002 - 612 pages
...During the whole time Rip and his companion had laboured on in silence, for though the former marvelled greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg...presented themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd looking personages playing at ninepins. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion... | |
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