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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...

A History of the County of Westchester, from Its First Settlement to the ... - Page 338
by Robert Bolton - 1848
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American Literature Survey: The American romantics, 1800-1860

Milton R. Stern, Seymour L. Gross - Fiction - 1968 - 696 pages

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American Literature: Tradition & Innovation, Volume 1

Harrison T. Meserole, Walter Sutton, Brom Weber - American literature - 1969 - 1896 pages

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Representative Selections

Washington Irving - 1934 - 514 pages

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The American Landscape: A Critical Anthology of Prose and Poetry

John Conron - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1973 - 690 pages

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Adventures for Readers: Book Two, Book 2

Literature - 1973 - 698 pages

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Short Story/short Film

Fred Harold Marcus - Fiction - 1977 - 478 pages

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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent

Washington Irving - Americans - 1978 - 576 pages

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Story to Anti-story

Mary Rohrberger - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 804 pages

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The Hudson River in Literature: An Anthology

Arthur G. Adams - Literary Criticism - 1980 - 356 pages

...concerning this spectre, allege that the body of the trooper, having been buried in the church-yard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly...his being belated, and in a hurry to get back to the church-yard before daybreak. Such is the general purport of this legendary superstition, which has...

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving, Irving - Fiction - 1980 - 100 pages

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