 I recollect that when a stripling, my first exploit in squirrelshooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered into it at noontime, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my...  The sketch book. Tales of a traveller - Стр. 415авторы: Washington Irving - 1881Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1862 - Страниц: 896
...valley. I had wandered into it at noontime, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my own gun as it broke the Sabbath stillness...If ever I should wish for a retreat whither I might stoat from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I... | |
 | WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH - 1863 - Страниц: 516
...expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappaan Zee ;" and he adds, " If ever I should wish for a retreat whither I might...know of none more promising than this little valley." He found it so : and we have felt justified in dwelling so long upon a spot which, to men of letters,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - Страниц: 518
...valley. I had wandered into it at noon-time, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my own gun, as it broke the Sabbath stillness...and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by the... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1866 - Страниц: 488
...tapping of a woodpecker, is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity If ever I should wish for a retreat, whither I might...know of none more promising than this little valley." ' "When, more than a dozen years ago, the Tarrytown Cemetery was laid out, Mr. Irving chose the plot... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - Страниц: 1010
...embraced the ample cheer. Of this neighborhood, Irving abo wrote in that tale of his youth : — '; M O Sh S- dreatu quietly away the remainder of a troubled life, Í know of none more promising than this little... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1875 - Страниц: 98
...valley. I had wandered into it at noon-time, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my own gun, as it broke the Sabbath stillness...and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by the... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - Страниц: 454
...valley. 1 had wandered into it ut noon-time, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my own gun, as it broke the Sabbath stillness...and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by the... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1875 - Страниц: 486
...the roar of my own gun, as it broke the Sabbath stillness around, and was prolonged and reverberated2 by the angry echoes. If ever I should wish for a retreat,...know of none more promising than this little valley. 1 St. NI6h' o las, the patron saint (or Klaus) of the Dutch, and the of boys. He is said to have been... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1876 - Страниц: 484
...was startled by the roar of my own gun, as it broke the Sabbath stillness around, and was pr6longed and reverberated' by the angry echoes. If ever I should...know of none more promising than this little valley. 1 St. Nich' o las, the patron saint (or Klaus) of the Dutch, and the of boya. He is said to have been... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1877 - Страниц: 454
...valley. I had wandered into it at noon-time, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my own gun, as it broke the Sabbath stillness...and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by the... | |
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