 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - Readers - 1880 - 234 pages
...country, and the nightmare, with her whole nine fold, seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted...Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the Revolutionary War, and who is ever and anon seen by... | |
 | Washington Irving, Spraque Homer Baxter - 1880 - 146 pages
...country, and the nightmare, with her whole nine fold, seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted...of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of u figure on horseback, without a head. It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1880 - 460 pages
...and the night-mare, with her whole nine fold 9, seems to make it the favourite scene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander-in- chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback without... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1880 - 200 pages
...; and the nightmare, with her whole nine fold, seems to make it the favourite scene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander in chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback without... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 1002 pages
...country, and the nightmare, with her whole nine fold, seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted...Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the revolutionary war; and who is ever and anon seen by... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 712 pages
...make it the favourite scene of her .innbols. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this nchanted region, and seems to be commander-inchief of all the...said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, \vhose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the revolutionary... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 392 pages
...country, and the night-mare, with her whole nine fold, seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted...commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, is the apyarition of a figure on horseback without a head. It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill (N.Y.) - 1882 - 258 pages
...country, and the night-mare with her whole nine fold seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commaader-inchief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback without... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1883 - 52 pages
...country, and the nightmare, with her whole ninefold, seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted...Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the Revolutionary AVar, and who is ever and anon seen by... | |
 | John Kennedy - English language - 1890 - 304 pages
...could not free ; He builded better than he knew ;— The conscious stones to beauty grew.— Emerson. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted...apparition of a figure on horseback without a head.— Irving. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.—... | |
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The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback without a head. It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose... 
