 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889 - 524 pages
...anxiety turned his steps homeward. As he approached the village he met a number of people, but none whom he knew, which somewhat surprised him, for he had...stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of» this gesture induced Rip, involuntarily, to do the same, when to his astonishment he found his beard... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1890 - 570 pages
...anxiety, turned his steps homeward. As he approached the village he met a number of people, but none whom he knew, which somewhat surprised him, for he had...different fashion from that to which he was accustomed. Fhey all stared at him with equal marks of surprise, and whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 pages
...anxiety, turned his steps homeward. As he approached the village he met a number of people, but none whom he knew, which somewhat surprised him, for he had...invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture induced Rip, involuntarily, to do the same, when to his astonishment he found his beard... | |
 | 1891 - 432 pages
...anxiety, turned his steps homeward. As he approached the village he met a number of people, but none whom he knew, which somewhat surprised him, for he had...with equal marks of surprise, and whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture induced... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 140 pages
...the rusty firelock, and, with a heart full of trouble and anxiety, turned his steps homeward. prised him, for he had thought himself acquainted with every...with equal marks of surprise, and whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture induced... | |
 | John Kneeland, Henry Nathan Wheeler - 1891 - 508 pages
...the rusty firelock, and, with a heart full of trouble and anxiety, turned his steps homeward. prised him, for he had thought himself acquainted with every...with equal marks of surprise, and whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture induced... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 270 pages
...approached the village he met a number of people, but none whom he knew, which somewhat suu prised him, for he had thought himself acquainted with every...with equal marks of surprise, and whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture induced... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 422 pages
...anxiety turned his steps homeward. As he approached the village he met a number of people, but none whom he knew, which somewhat surprised him, for he had...with equal marks of surprise, and whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture induced... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 242 pages
...anxiety, turned his steps homeward. As he approached the village, he met a number of people, but none whom he knew ; which somewhat surprised him, for he had...with equal marks of surprise, and, whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture induced... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1893 - 318 pages
...time with Dame Van Winkle " 69 " As he approached the village he met a number of people, but none whom he knew, which somewhat surprised him, for he had...himself acquainted with every one in the country round " 73 " He found the house gone to decay — the roof fallen in " . 77 " And preferred making friends... | |
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... gun ; he dreaded to meet his wife ; but it would not do to starve among the mountains. He shook his head, shouldered the rusty firelock, and, with a heart full of trouble and anxiety, turned his steps homeward. As he approached the village he met... 
