| 1819 - 610 pages
...the gully up which he and his companion had ascended the preceding evening, but to his astonishment a mountain stream was now foaming down it, leaping from...toilsome way through thickets of birch, sassafras, and witch hazle, and sometimes tripped np or entangled by the wild grape vines that twisted their coils... | |
| Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...the gully up which he and his companion had ascended the preceding evening; but to his astonishment a mountain stream was now foaming down it, leaping from...toilsome way through thickets of birch, sassafras, and witch hazle, and sometimes tripped up or entangled by the wild grape vines that twisted their coils... | |
| Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...gully up which he and his companion had ascended the preceding evening ; but to his astonishment a mountain stream was now foaming down it, leaping from...its sides, working his toilsome way through thickets bf birch, sassafras, and witch hazle, and sometimes tripped up or entangled by the wild grape vines... | |
| Washington Irving - American literature - 1821 - 354 pages
...and his companion had ascended the preceding evening ; :.but to his astonishment a mountain-stream was now foaming down it, leaping from rock to rock,...murmurs. He -however made shift to scramble up its sides, work: ing his toilsome way through thickets of birch, i sassafras, and witch hazel, and sometimes tripped... | |
| Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 402 pages
...scramble up its sides, working his toilsome way through thickets of birch, sassafras, and witch hazle, and sometimes tripped up or entangled by the wild...and tendrils from tree to tree, and spread a kind of net- work in his path. At length he reached to where the ravine had opened through the cliffs to the... | |
| Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...gully up which he and his companion had ascended the preceding evening ; but to his astonishment a mountain stream was now foaming down it, leaping from...toilsome way through thickets of birch, sassafras, and witch-hazle, and sometimes tripped up or entangled by the wild grape vines that twisted their coils... | |
| English literature - 1826 - 654 pages
...the gully up which he and his companion had ascended the preceding evening, but to his astonishment a mountain stream was now foaming down it, leaping from...toilsome way through thickets of birch, sassafras, and witch hazel, and sometimes tripped up or entangled by the wild grape vines that twisted their coite... | |
| English literature - 1819 - 606 pages
...astonishment a mountain stream was now foaming down it, leaping from rock to rock, and filling die glen with babbling murmurs. He, however, made shift...toilsome way through thickets of birch, sassafras, and witch hazle, and sometimes tripped up or entangled by the wild grape vines that twisted their coils... | |
| Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1834 - 320 pages
...gully up which he and his companion had ascended the preceding evening ; but to his astonishment a mountain stream was now foaming down it, leaping from...rock, and filling the glen with babbling murmurs. He made shift, however, to scramble up its sides, working his toilsome way through thickets of birch,... | |
| Washington Irving - Americans - 1834 - 316 pages
...gully up which he and his companion had ascended the preceding evening ; but to his astonishment a mountain stream was now foaming down it, leaping from...rock, and filling the glen with babbling murmurs. He made shift, however, to scramble up its sides, working his toilsome way through thickets of birch,... | |
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