 | Charles Eliot Norton, Kate Stephens, George Henry Browne - Literature - 1895
...fire, with a row of apples roasting and spluttering along the hearth, and listen to their marvellous tales of ghosts, and goblins, and haunted fields,...and of the direful omens and portentous sights and sonnds in the air, which prevailed in the earlier times of Connecticut; and would frighten them woefully... | |
 | American essays - 1896
...fire, with a row of apples roasting and sputtering along the hearth, and listen to their marvelous tales of ghosts and goblins, and haunted fields, and...in the air, which prevailed in the earlier times of Connecticut,2 and would frighten them wofully with speculations upon comets and shooting stars, and... | |
 | Washington Irving - Bookbinding - 1897 - 61 pages
...fire, with a row of apples roasting and sputtering along the hearth, and listen to their marvellous tales of ghosts, and goblins, and haunted fields and...earlier times of Connecticut; and would frighten them woefully with speculations upon comets and shooting stars, and with the alarming fact that the world... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 140 pages
...fire, with a row of apples roasting and sputtering along the hearth, and listen to their marvellous tales of ghosts, and goblins, and haunted fields and...prevailed in the earlier times of Connecticut ; and would frighcen them wofully with speculations upon comets and shooting stars, and with the alarming fact... | |
 | James Baldwin - Children's poetry - 1897
...listened to their wondrous tales of ghosts and goblins, and haunted fields, and haunted brooks, and 20 haunted bridges, and haunted houses, and particularly...Hessian of the Hollow," as they sometimes called him. And then he would entertain them with stories of witchcraft, and would frighten them with woeful There... | |
 | Baldwin - 1897
...fire with a long row of apples roasting and sputtering along the hearth. He listened to their wondrous tales of ghosts and goblins, and haunted fields, and haunted brooks, and 20 haunted bridges, and haunted houses, and particularly of the headless horseman, or " Galloping Hessian... | |
 | Baldwin - Children's poetry - 1897
...fire with a long row of apples roasting and sputtering along the hearth. He listened to their wondrous tales of ghosts and goblins, and haunted fields, and haunted brooks, and 20 haunted bridges, and haunted houses, and particularly of the headless horseman, or " Galloping Hessian... | |
 | Readers - 1898
...fire, with a row of apples roasting and spluttering along the hearth, and listen to their marvelous tales of ghosts and goblins, and haunted fields, and...earlier times of Connecticut ; and would frighten them woefully with speculations upon comets and shooting stars ; and with the alarming fact that the world... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - Readers - 1898 - 302 pages
...fire, with a row of apples roasting and spluttering along the hearth, and listen to their marvelous tales of ghosts and goblins, and haunted fields, and...earlier times of Connecticut, and would frighten them woefully with speculations upon comets and shooting stars and with the alarming fact that the world... | |
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Hollow, as they sometimes called him. He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and of the direful omens and portentous sights and sounds in the air, which prevailed in the earlier times of... 
