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| “He used to console himself by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the
sages, philosophers and other idle personages, which held its sessions
before a small inn” |
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| “Certain biscuit-bakers have gone so far as to imprint his likeness on
their New-Year Cakes” |
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| “These mountains are regarded by all good wives, far and near, as perfect
barometers” |
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| “Some of the houses of the original settlers” |
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| “A curtain-lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the
virtues of patience and long-suffering” |
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| “Taught them to fly kites” |
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| “His cow would go astray or get among the cabbages” |
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| “His children were as ragged and wild as if they belonged to nobody” |
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| “Equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had as
much ado to hold up as a fine lady does her train in bad weather” |
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| “So that he was fain to draw off his forces and take to the outside of the
house—the only side which, in truth, belongs to a henpecked husband.” |
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| “A company of odd-looking persons playing at ninepins” |
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| “They maintained the gravest faces” |
12 |
| “They stared at him with such fixed, statue-like gaze, that his heart turned
within him and his knees smote together” |
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| “He even ventured to taste the beverage, which he found had much of
the flavour of excellent Hollands” |
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| “Surely,” thought he, “I have not slept here all night.... Oh! that
flagon! that wicked flagon! what excuse shall I make to Dame Van
Winkle?” |
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“They all stared at him with equal marks of surprise and invariably stroked
their chins” |
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| “A troop of strange children ran at his heels, hooting after him and pointing
at his grey beard” |
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| “The dogs, too, not one of whom he recognised for an old acquaintance,
barked at him as he passed” |
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| “He found the house gone to decay.... ‘My very dog,’ sighed poor Rip,
‘has forgotten me’” |
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| “They crowded round him, eyeing him from head to foot with great curiosity” |
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| Rip’s daughter and grandchild |
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| “He preferred making friends among the rising generation, with whom he
soon grew into great favour” |
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| “The Kaatsberg or Catskill mountains have always been a region full of fable” |
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| They were ruled by an old squaw spirit |
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| IN TEXT |
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| These fairy mountains |
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| Long stories of ghosts, witches, and Indians |
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| Peter was the most ancient inhabitant of the village |
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| The Kaatskill mountains had always been haunted by strange beings |
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| Very subject to marvellous events and appearances |
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| When these clouds broke, woe betide the valleys |
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| With a loud ho! ho! |
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