 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...  The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq - Page 271by Washington Irving - 1834 - 4 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - 1916 - 422 pages
...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...earlier times of Connecticut, and would frighten them woefully with speculations upon comets and shooting stars, and with the alarming fact that the world... | |
 | 1918 - 424 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... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - American literature - 1919 - 650 pages
...Dutch wives, as they sat spinning by the fire, with a row of apples roasting and spluttering along the galloping Hessian of the Hollow, as they sometimes...prevailed in the earlier times of Connecticut; and c would frighten them woefully with speculations upon comets and shooting stars; and with the alarming... | |
 | William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler - Readers - 1919 - 456 pages
...fire, with a row of apples roasting and spluttering along the hearth, and to listen to their marvelous tales of ghosts and goblins, and haunted fields, and haunted brooks, and haunted bridges, and haunted 5 houses, and particularly of the headless horseman, or Galloping Hessian of the Hollow, as they sometimes... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck, Lura E. Runkel - Readers - 1921 - 618 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 haunted brooks, and haunted 26 bridges, and haunted houses, and particularly of the headless horseman, or Galloping Hessian of... | |
 | William Harris Elson - 1921 - 520 pages
...fire, with a row of apples roasting and spluttering alon^r the hearth, and listen to their marvelous tales of ghosts and goblins, and haunted fields, and haunted brooks, and haunted 20 bridges, and haunted houses, and particularly of the headless horseman, or Galloping Hessian of... | |
 | Novelle - 1925 - 568 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... | |
 | Isobel Davidson - Reading (Elementary) - 1925 - 512 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... | |
 | Emma Miller Bolenius - American literature - 1926 - 648 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - Fiction - 1983 - 1198 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 wo*The whip-poor-will is a bird which is only heard at night. It receives its name from its note which... | |
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