 | 1839 - 256 pages
...presented a high impenetrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad deep basin, black from the shadows...of the surrounding forest. Here, then, poor Rip was Drought to a stand. He again called and whistled after his dog ; he was only answered by the cawing... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 1124 pages
...presented a high impenetrable wall over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad deep basin, black from the shadows...crows, sporting high in air about a dry tree that overlmng a sunny precipice ; and who, secure in their elevation, seemed to look down and scoff at the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1846 - 356 pages
...impenetrable wall over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a hroad deep basin, black from the shadows of the surrounding...that overhung a sunny precipice ; and who, secure in their elevation, seemed to look down and scoff at the poor man's perplexities. What was to be done?... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 478 pages
...presented a high impenetrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad deep basin, black from the shadows...tree that overhung a sunny precipice; and who, secure in their elevation, seemed to look down and scoff at the poor man's perplexities. What was to be done?... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 340 pages
...presented a high impenetrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad deep basin, black from the shadows...that overhung a sunny precipice ; and who, secure in their elevation, seemed to look down and scoff at the poor man's perplexities. What was to be done... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 544 pages
...presented a high impenetrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad deep basin, black from the shadows...tree that overhung a sunny precipice; and who, secure in their elevation, seemed to look down and scoff at the poor man's perplexities. What was to be done?... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1849 - 542 pages
...presented a high impenetrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad deep basin, black from the shadows of the i surrounding forest. Here, then, poor Rip was brought to a stand. He again called and whistled after... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...high impenetrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and feil into a broad deep basin, black from the shadows of...tree that overhung a sunny precipice; and who, secure in their elevation, seemed to look down and scoff at the poor man's perplexities. What was to be done?... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...presented a high impenetrable wall, over which ;lie torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad deep basin, black from the shadows of the surrounding forest. Here, then, 1«ar Rip was brought to a stand. He again called anJ whistled after his dog : he was only answered... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1860 - 478 pages
...presented a high impenetrable wall over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad deep basin, black from the shadows...forest. Here, then, poor Rip was brought to a stand. Ho again called and whistled after his dog ; he was only answered by the cawing of a flock of idle... | |
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At length he reached to where the ravine had opened through the cliffs to the amphitheatre; but no traces of such opening remained. The rocks presented a high impenetrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell... 
