 From his half itinerant life, also, he was a kind of travel24 ing gazette, carrying the whole budget of local gossip from house to house, so that his appearance was always greeted with satisfaction. He was, moreover, esteemed by the women as a man of...  International Short Stories: American - Page 25edited by - 1910Full view - About this book
 | Martin Scofield - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 239 pages
...descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield'. He is esteemed for his learning ('for he had read several books quite through') and...England Witchcraft, in which, by the way, he most potently and firmly believed'. Ichabod is the victim of a hoax ghost - supposedly the headless horseman... | |
 | Washington Irving - Fiction - 2007 - 105 pages
...envying his superior elegance and address. From his half-itinerant life, also, he was a kind of traveling gazette, carrying the whole budget of local gossip...quite through, and was a perfect master of Cotton Mathers "History of New England Witchcraft," in which, by the way, he most firmly and potently believed.... | |
 | 1820 - 804 pages
...the banks of the " adjacent mill-pond." And to young and old, besides his being an excellent family gazette, " carrying the whole budget of local " gossip from house to house," he rendered himself excessively interesting, by his inexhaustible stock of anecdotes and narratives... | |
 | 1820 - 782 pages
...the banks of the " adjacent mill-pond." And to young and old, besides his being an excellent family gazette, " carrying the whole budget of local " gossip from house to house," he rendered himself excessively interesting, by his inexhaustible stock of anecdotes and narratives... | |
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