 | 1820 - 646 pages
...faces, the most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had erer witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the...approached them, they suddenly desisted from their play. His companion now emptied the contents of the keg into large flagons, and made signs to him to wait... | |
 | 1819 - 610 pages
...faces, ihe most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness...Rip and his companion approached them, they suddenly désistai! from their play, and stared at him with such fixed statue-like gaze, and such strange, uncouth,... | |
 | 1820 - 870 pages
...gravest faces, the most mysterious silence, and were withal the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness...desisted from their play, and stared at him with such fixed statue-like gaze, and such strange uncouth lacklustre countenances, that his heart turned within... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 364 pages
...faces, the most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness...desisted from their play, and stared at him with such fixed statue-like gaze, and such strange, uncouth, lack-lustre countenances, that his heart turned... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 pages
...faces, the most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness...desisted from their play, and stared at him with such fixed statue-like gaze, and such strange, uncouth, lack-lustre countenances, that his heart turned... | |
 | 1821 - 504 pages
...scene, but the noise of the f balls, which, whenever they were rolled, echoed along the moun' tains like rumbling peals of thunder. ' As Rip and his companion...approached them, they suddenly ' desisted from their play. His companion now emptied the cou' tents of the keg into large flagons, and made signs to him to wait... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...faces, the most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness...desisted from their play, and stared at him with such fixed statue-like gaze, and such strange, uncouth, lack-lustre countenances, that his heart turned... | |
 | 1824 - 394 pages
...party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene, but the uoUc of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled, echoed...along the mountains like rumbling peals of thunder. torrent. As they ascended, Rip every " As Rip aud his companion op WASHINGTON IRVING. C95 preached'... | |
 | 1819 - 606 pages
...faces, the most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness...desisted from their play, and stared at him with such fixed statue^like gaze, and such strange, uncouth* lack lustre eountenances, that his heart turned... | |
 | 1826 - 654 pages
...faces, the most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness...were rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling penis of thunder. As Rip and his companion approached them, they suddenly desisted from their play,... | |
| |
What seemed particularly odd to Rip was, that though these folks were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained the gravest faces, the most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing... 
