Rip's heart died away, at hearing of these sad changes in his home and friends, and finding himself thus alone in the world. Every answer puzzled him, too, by treating of such enormous lapses of time, and of matters which he could not understand: war... American Prose (1607-1865) - Seite 240herausgegeben von - 1916 - 737 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Washington Irving - 1901 - 218 Seiten
...such enormous lapses of time, and of matters which he could not understand: war — Congress — Stony Point; he had no courage to ask after any more friends,...here know Rip Van Winkle ? " " Oh, Rip Van Winkle I " exclaimed two or three, " Oh, to be sure ! that 's Rip Van Winkle yonder, leaning against the tree."... | |
| Washington Irving - 1901 - 546 Seiten
...such enormous lapses of time, and of matters which he could not understand: war — congress — Stony Point ; — he had no courage to ask after any more...despair, " Does nobody here know Rip Van Winkle?" 25 « Oh, Rip Van Winkle ! " exclaimed two or three, "Oh, to be sure ! that's Rip Van Winkle yonder,... | |
| Oscar Israel Woodley, Myra Soper Woodley - 1901 - 322 Seiten
...he was killed at the storming of Stony Point." Rip's heart died away at hearing of these changes ; he had no courage to ask after any more friends, but...in despair, " Does nobody here know Rip Van Winkle ? " Which makes the narrative more lively and interesting, the direct or the indirect quotation ? Rewrite... | |
| Washington Irving - 1902 - 228 Seiten
...such enormous lapses of time, and of matters which he could not understand: war — congress — Stony Point — he had no courage to ask after any more...Rip Van Winkle yonder, leaning against the tree." 25 Rip looked, and beheld a precise counterpart of himself, as he went up the moun • tain; apparently... | |
| Frederick Brigham De Berard - 1902 - 420 Seiten
...he could not understand: war—Congress—Stony | Point;—he had no courage to ask after any more i friends, but cried out in despair, "Does nobody here...three. "Oh, to be sure! that's Rip Van Winkle yonder, lean- , ing against the tree." Rip looked and beheld a precise counterpart of himself as he went up... | |
| George Andrew Lewis - 1902 - 434 Seiten
...such enormous lapses of time, and of matters which he could not understand: war — Congress — Stony Point; — he had no courage to ask after any more...here know Rip Van Winkle ? ' " Oh, Rip Van Winkle ! n exclaimed two or three; ' Oh, to be sure! that's Rip Van Winkle yonder, leaning against the tree.... | |
| 1902 - 364 Seiten
...such enormous lapses of time, and of matters which he could not understand: war — Congress — Stony Point; he had no courage to ask after any more friends,...in despair, "Does nobody here know Rip Van Winkle?" 22. "Oh, Rip Van Winkle!" exclaimed two or three, •"oh, to be sure! that's Rip Van Winkle yonder,... | |
| D.C. Heath and Company - 1903 - 362 Seiten
...of such enormous lapses of time, and of matters which he could not understand: war, Congress, Stony Point; he had no courage to ask after any more friends,...mountain ; apparently as lazy, and certainly as ragged. He doubted his own identity, and whether he was himself or another man. In the midst of his bewilderment,... | |
| 1903 - 362 Seiten
...of such enormous lapses of time, and of matters which he could not understand: war, Congress, Stony Point; he had no courage to ask after any more friends,...mountain ; apparently as lazy, and certainly as ragged. He doubted his own identity, and whether he was himself or another man. In the midst of his bewilderment,... | |
| Edward Archibald Allen, William John Hawkins - 1903 - 186 Seiten
...such enormous lapses of time, and matters which he could not understand : War — Congress — Stony Point ! He had no courage to ask after any more friends,...Rip Van Winkle yonder, leaning against the tree." confounded. He doubted his own identity, and whether he was himself or another man. In the midst of... | |
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