The Short-storyAllyn and Bacon, 1916 - 238 páginas |
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... over the valleys ; he saw that it would be dark long before he could reach the village , and he heaved a heavy sigh when he thought of encountering the terrors of Dame Van Winkle . As he was about to descend , he heard a Rip Van Winkle 7.
... over the valleys ; he saw that it would be dark long before he could reach the village , and he heaved a heavy sigh when he thought of encountering the terrors of Dame Van Winkle . As he was about to descend , he heard a Rip Van Winkle 7.
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... dark they arrived , and gave me a most cordial welcome . Jupiter , grinning from ear to ear , bustled about to prepare some marsh - hens for supper . Legrand was in one of his fits - how else shall I term them ? of enthu- siasm . He had ...
... dark they arrived , and gave me a most cordial welcome . Jupiter , grinning from ear to ear , bustled about to prepare some marsh - hens for supper . Legrand was in one of his fits - how else shall I term them ? of enthu- siasm . He had ...
Página 35
... dark lan- terns , while Legrand contented himself with the scarabæus , which he carried attached to the end of a bit of whip- cord ; twirling it to and fro , with the air of a conjurer , as he went . When I observed this last , plain ...
... dark lan- terns , while Legrand contented himself with the scarabæus , which he carried attached to the end of a bit of whip- cord ; twirling it to and fro , with the air of a conjurer , as he went . When I observed this last , plain ...
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... dark to see what we are about . " " How far mus go up , massa ? " inquired Jupiter . " Get up the main trunk first , and then I will tell you which way to go — and here you . " 66 - De bug , Massa Will ! - stop ! take this beetle with ...
... dark to see what we are about . " " How far mus go up , massa ? " inquired Jupiter . " Get up the main trunk first , and then I will tell you which way to go — and here you . " 66 - De bug , Massa Will ! - stop ! take this beetle with ...
Página 58
... dark as ever . Were all the jewels of Golconda awaiting me upon my solution of this enigma , I am quite sure that I should be unable to earn them . " " And yet , " said Legrand , " the solution is by no means so difficult as you might ...
... dark as ever . Were all the jewels of Golconda awaiting me upon my solution of this enigma , I am quite sure that I should be unable to earn them . " " And yet , " said Legrand , " the solution is by no means so difficult as you might ...
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30 cents appeared asked Aylmer beetle birthmark called character cheek Colonel concealed Coppy cried Dame Van Winkle dark dealer death's-head Denis door Duchess Dupin Edgar Allan Poe Edited Essay eyes face fear fell felt figure fire Georgiana girl governors hand Hawthorne head heard heart honor Joliffe Julius Cæsar Jupiter Jupiter's Kipling Legrand letter limb looked Malétroit Markheim massa matter mind Miss Allardyce Monsieur de Beaulieu Mother Shipton mountain Nathaniel Hawthorne never night Oakhurst observed old gentleman once paper parchment personage Piney Poems Poker Flat Prefect Price Province House replied returned Rip Van Winkle ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Rudyard Kipling scarabæus seemed seen short-story Sir William Sire skull smile spirit stood story strange Sullivan's Island tell thing thought tion took tree truth turned Uncle Billy village voice WASHINGTON IRVING Wee Willie Winkie wife words
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Página 231 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Página 1 - ... about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory. At the foot of these fairy mountains...
Página 16 - He doubted his own identity, and whether he was himself or another man. In the midst of his bewilderment the man in the cocked hat demanded who he was, and what was his name. "God knows...
Página 91 - is a desperate man and a man of nerve. His hotel, too, is not without attendants devoted to his interests. Had I made the wild attempt you suggest I might never have left the Ministerial presence alive. The good people of Paris might have heard of me no more. But I had an object apart from these considerations.
Página xii - A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents — he then combines such events that may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect.
Página 8 - On nearer approach he was still more surprised at the singularity of the stranger's appearance. He was a short square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard.
Página 76 - That, of course; and when we had absolutely completed every particle of the furniture in this way, then we examined the house itself. We divided its entire surface into compartments, which we numbered, so that none might be missed; then we scrutinized each individual square inch throughout the premises, including the two houses immediately adjoining, with the microscope, as before.
Página 39 - Did you say it was a dead limb, Jupiter?" cried Legrand in a quivering voice. "Yes, massa; him dead as de door-nail; done up for sartain ; done departed dis here life." "What in the name of heaven shall I do?
Página 135 - ... town of all improper persons. This was done permanently in regard of two men who were then hanging from the boughs of a sycamore in the gulch, and temporarily in the banishment of certain other objectionable characters. I regret to say that some of these were ladies. It is but due to the sex, however, to state that their impropriety was professional, and it was only in such easily established standards of evil that Poker Flat ventured to sit in judgment.
Página 179 - ... was exceedingly faint, and showed dimly on the threshold of the shop. And yet, in that strip of doubtful brightness, did there not hang wavering a shadow? Suddenly, from the street outside, a very jovial gentleman began to beat with a staff on the shop-door, accompanying his blows with shouts and railleries in which the dealer was continually called upon by name. Markheim, smitten into ice, glanced at the dead man. But no ! he lay quite still ; he was fled away far beyond earshot of these blows...