 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
 | Henry Augustin Beers - American literature - 1878 - 450 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 of the turmoil, giving * The " Thunder-Mountain," so called from its echoes. orders in Low Dutch for the piping up of a fresh... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 910 pages
...speaking trumpet in his hand, which they say keeps about the Dunderberg.* They declare that they hav« heard him, in stormy weather, in the midst of the...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... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1881 - 572 pages
...hat, with a speaking-trumpet in his hand, which, they say, keeps the Bonder Berg. They declare that they have heard him in stormy weather, in the midst...giving orders in Low Dutch for the piping up of a fresh gu:;t of wind, or the rattling oft" of another thunder-clap. That sometimes he has been seen surrounded... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - Allusions - 1881 - 602 pages
...hat, with a speaking-trumpet in hie hand, which they say keeps the Dondrr Rtrg. They d'eclare that they have heard him in stormy weather, in the midst...turmoil, giving orders in Low Dutch for the piping up of afresh gust of wind, or the rattling oft" of another thunder-clap. . . . Several events of this kind... | |
 | United States - 1882 - 640 pages
...hat, for an account of whom we must turn again to Irving: "The captains of river-craft declare that they have heard him, in stormy weather, in the midst...for the piping up of a fresh gust of wind, or the 45 rattling off of another thunder-clap ; that sometimes he has been seen surrounded by a crew of little... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - Allusions - 1882 - 608 pages
...hat, with a speaking-trumpet in his hand, which they say keeps the Dander Jlcrff. They declare that they have heard him in stormy weather, in the midst of the turmoil, giving orders in Low Dutch for (he piping up of a fresh gust of wind, or the rattling off of another thunder-clap. . . . Several events... | |
 | Montgomery Gibbs - 1883 - 468 pages
...hat, with a speaking-trumpet in his baud, which, they say, keeps the Donder Berg. 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1886 - 608 pages
...a little bulbous-bottomed Dutch goblin, in trunk hose and sugar-loafed hat, with a speaking trumpet in his hand, which they say keeps about the Dunderberg.*...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... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - Literary Collections - 1891 - 296 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...the rack and mist, and playing a thousand gambols in llie air, or buzzing like a swarm of Hies about Anthony's Nose ; and that, at such times, the hurry-scurry... | |
 | Theodore Frelinghuysen Wolfe - American literature - 1900 - 262 pages
...goblins " of Irving' s legend of " The Storm King," who used to be heard here, in the midst of tempests, "giving orders in Low Dutch for the piping up of a...wind or the rattling off of another thunderclap." Other miles of strolling through a romantic mountain region bring us to a resort of Irving' s, "The... | |
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