 | 1820 - 870 pages
...knees smote .against the saddle: jit was but the rubbing of one huge bough upon another, as they were swayed about by the breeze. He passed the tree in...rough logs, laid side by side, served for a bridge aver this stream. On that side of the road where the brook entered the wood, a group of oaks and chesnuts,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 438 pages
...knees smote against the saddle : it was but the rubbing of one huge bough upon another, as they were swayed about by the breeze. He passed the tree in...brook crossed the road, and ran into a marshy and thickly wooden glen, known by the name of Wiley's Swamp. A few rough logs, laid side by side, served... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 pages
...knees smote against the saddle : it was but the rubbing of one huge bough upon another, as they were swayed about by the breeze. He passed the tree in...brook crossed the road, and ran into a marshy and thickly wooded glen, known by the name of Wiley's swamp. A few rough logs, laid side by side, served... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...knees smote against the saddle : it was but the rubbing of one huge bough upon another, as they were swayed about by the breeze. He passed the tree in...brook crossed the road, and ran into a marshy and thickly wooded glen, known by the name of Wiley's swamp. A few rough logs, laid side by side, served... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1830 - 346 pages
...knees smote against the saddle : it was but the rubbing of one huge branch upon another, as they were swayed about by the breeze. He passed the tree in safety, but new perils lay before him. give his companion the slip — but the spectre started full jump with him. Away then they dashed,... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1831 - 518 pages
...knees smote against the saddle : it was but the rubbing of one huge bough upon another, as they were swayed about by the breeze. He passed the tree in...that side of the road where the brook entered the wood,a group of oaks and chesnuts, matted thick with wild grape-vines, threw a cavernous gloom over... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 pages
...knees smote against the saddle : it was but the rubbing of one huge bough upon another, as they were swayed about by the breeze. He passed the tree in...brook crossed the road, and ran into a marshy and thickly wooded glen, known by the name of Wiley's swamp. A few rough logs, laid side by side, served... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1835 - 284 pages
...the saddle : It was but the rubbing of one huge branch upon another, as they were swayed about by tne breeze. He passed the tree in safety, but new perils...brook crossed the road, and ran into a marshy and thickly wooded glen, known by the name of Wiley's swamp. A few rough logs, laid side by side, served... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 1124 pages
...knees smote against the saddle : it was but the rubbing of one huge bough upon another, as they were swayed about by the breeze. He passed the tree in...into a marshy and thicklywooded glen, known by the namo of Wiley's swamp. A few rough logs, laid side by side, served for a bridge over this stream. On... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1848 - 550 pages
...knees smote against the saddle : it was but the rubbing of one huge bough u|xm another, as thev were swayed about by the breeze. He passed the tree in...safety, but new perils lay before him. About two hundred yard* from the tree a small brook crossed the road, and ran into a marshy and thickly-wooded glen,... | |
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... looking more narrowly, perceived that it was a place where the tree had been scathed by lightning, and the white wood laid bare. Suddenly he heard a groan. His teeth chattered, and his knees smote against the saddle. It was but the rubbing of one... 
