 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 518 pages
...presented a high impenetrable-wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of leathery 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 scon" at the poor man's perplexities. What was to be done... | |
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 304 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...Here, then, poor Rip was brought to a stand. He again culled and whistled after his dog ; he was only answered by the cawing of a flock of idle crows, sporting... | |
 | Golden gift - 1868 - 168 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1869 - 260 pages
...lie again called and whistled after his dog ; ho was only answered by tho cawing of a flock of idlo crows, sporting high in air about a dry tree that overhung a sunny precipice ; and who, secure in their elevation, seemed to look down nnd scoff nt tho poor man's perplexities. What was to bo done... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm P. Oertel - 1870 - 244 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... | |
 | Harris Ray Greene - 1870 - 800 pages
...beautiful garden that I ever saw. 17. The wisest man in America. 18. The finest house on the street. 19. "A flock of idle crows sporting high in air, about a dry tree that overhung a sunny precipice." — Irving. 20. " Nicholas Vedder a patriarch of the village and landlord of the inn at which he took... | |
 | Harris Ray Greene - 1871 - 284 pages
...beautiful garden that I ever saw. 17. The wisest man in America. 18. The finest house on the street. 19. "A flock of idle crows sporting high in air, about a dry tree that overhung a sunny precipice." — Irving. 20. " Nicholas Vedder a patriarch of the village and landlord of the inn at which he took... | |
 | American literature - 1872 - 660 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...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?... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 pages
...feathery foam, and fell into a broad, deep basin, black from the shadow of the surrounding forests. Here, then, poor Rip was brought to a stand. He again...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?... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 pages
...high imrtnetrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and tell [ \ J po->r Kip was brought to a stand. He again oalle-1 and whistled after his dog; he was only answered... | |
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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... 
