 | 1918 - 424 pages
...concerning this spectre, allege that the body of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly...his being belated, and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak. Such is the general purport of this legendary superstition, which has furnished... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - Literary Criticism - 1919 - 512 pages
...concerning this spectre, allege that the body of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly...his being belated and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak. Such is the general purport of this legendary superstition, which has furnished... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - American literature - 1919 - 650 pages
...at no great distance. Indeed, certain of the most authentic historians of those parts, who have been battle in nightly quest of his head; and that the...his being belated, and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak. s Such is the general purport of this legendary superstition, which has... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck, Lura E. Runkel - Readers - 1921 - 618 pages
...concerning this specter, allege that the body of the trooper 5 having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly...his being belated, and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak. 10 Such is the general purport of this legendary superstition, which has... | |
 | William Harris Elson - 1921 - 520 pages
...concerning this specter, allege that the body of the trooper s having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly...his being belated, and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak. 10 Such is the general purport of this legendary superstition, which has... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1922 - 136 pages
...who have been careful in collecting and collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that the body of the trooper having been buried in...his being belated, and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak. Such is the general purport of this legendary super, stition, which has... | |
 | Rose Buhlig - Commercial correspondence - 1922 - 496 pages
...concerning this specter, allege that, the body of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly...his being belated and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak. 2 Ichabod was a suitable figure for such a steed. He rode with short stirrups,... | |
 | Novelle - 1925 - 568 pages
...concerning this specter, allege that, the body of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly...his being belated and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak. Such is the general purport of this legendary superstition, which has furnished... | |
 | Emma Miller Bolenius - American literature - 1926 - 648 pages
...concerning this spectre, allege that the body of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly...his being belated, and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak. 6 Such is the general purport of this legendary superstition, which has... | |
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... the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head; and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his being belated, and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard... 
