| Washington Irving - 1903 - 814 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... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - 1903 - 296 pages
...the trooper having been in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightl)' quest of his head, and that the rushing speed with...his being belated, and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak.1 Such is the general purport of this legendary superstition, which has... | |
| Charles Madison Curry - American literature - 1903 - 572 pages
...trooper having been buried in the church-yard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly 75 quest of his head; and that the rushing speed with...his being belated, and in a hurry to get back to the church-yard before daybreak. Such is the general purport of this legendary super- so stition, which... | |
| Frederick Brigham De Berard - Literature - 1905 - 354 pages
...facts concerning this spectre, allege, that the body of the trooper having been 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... | |
| Hanson Hart Webster - Readers and speakers - 1905 - 480 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... | |
| Washington Irving - 1905 - 460 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... | |
| Lionel Strachey - Wit and humor - 1905 - 316 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... | |
| Charles Eliot Norton - Readers - 1906 - 416 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 church-yard before daybreak. Such is the general purport of this legendary superstition, which has... | |
| Isabel Moore - Readers - 1906 - 360 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... | |
| Short stories, American - 1907 - 392 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... | |
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