The sun gradually wheeled his broad disk down into the west The wide bosom of the Tappan Zee lay motionless and glassy, excepting that here and there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant mountain. A few amber clouds floated... The Sketch-book - Page 444by Washington Irving - 1848Full view - About this book
| Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 pages
...bosom of the Tappaan Zee lay motionless and glassy, excepting that here and there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant...some parts of the river, giving greater depth to the dark grey and purple of her rocky sides. A sloop was loitering in the distance, dropping slowly down... | |
| Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...bosom of the Tappaan Zee lay motionless and glassy, excepting that here and there . a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant...some parts of the river, giving greater depth to the dark gray and purple of their rocky sides. A sloop was loitering in the distance, dropping slowly down... | |
| Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1829 - 270 pages
...bosom of the Tapaan Zee lay motionless and glassy, excepting that here and there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant...some parts of the river, giving greater depth to the dark blue and purple of their rocky sides. A sloop was loitering in the distance, dropping slowly down... | |
| Washington Irving - American essays - 1830 - 346 pages
...bosom of the Tappaan Zee lay motionless and glassy, excepting that here and there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant...clouds floated in the sky, without a breath of air to movfe them. The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing gradually into a pure apple green, and... | |
| American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...bosom of the Tapaan Zee lay motionless and glassy, excepting that, here and there, a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant...woody crests of the precipices, that overhung some par{» of the river, giving greater depth to the dark gray and purple of their rocky sides. A sloop... | |
| Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 pages
...bosom of the Tappaan Zee lay motionless and glassy, excepting that here and there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant...some parts of the river, giving greater depth to the dark grey and purple of their rocky sides. A sloop was loitering in the distance, dropping slowly down... | |
| Washington Irving - American essays - 1835 - 284 pages
...bosom of the Tappaan Zee lay motionless and glassy, excepting that here and there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant...some parts of the river, giving greater depth to the dark gray and purple of their rocky sides. A sloop was loitering in the distance, dropping slowly down... | |
| Washington Irving - 1835 - 194 pages
...and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant monntain. A few amber clonds floated in the sky withont a breath of air to move them. The horizon was of a line golden tint , changing gradually into a pure apple green , and from that into the deep blue of... | |
| American literature - 1836 - 342 pages
...bosom of the Tappaan Zce lay motionless and glassy, excepting that here and there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant...clouds floated in the sky, without a breath of air to more them. The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing gradually into a pure apple grcen, and from... | |
| Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...bosom of the Tappaan Zee lay motionless and glassy, ex,cepting that here and there a gentle undulation waved and pro-longed the blue shadow of the distant...some parts of the river, giving greater depth to the dark blue and purple of their rocky sides. A sloop was loitering in the distance, dropping slowly down... | |
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