 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 396 pages
...of Dominie Van Schaick, the village parson, and which had been brought over from Holland at the time of the settlement, What seemed particularly odd to...scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling peals of thunder. As Rip and his companion approached... | |
 | American essays - 1896 - 374 pages
...of Dominie Van Schaick, the village parson, and which had been brought over from Holland at the time of the settlement. What seemed particularly odd to...scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling peals of thunder. As Rip and his companion approached... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - Readers - 1897 - 330 pages
...of Dominie Van Shaick, the village parson, and which had been brought over from Holland at the time of the settlement. What seemed particularly odd to...scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling peals of thunder. As Rip and his companion approached... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - American literature - 1897 - 554 pages
...of Dominie Van Schaick, the village parson, and which had been brought over from Holland at the time of the settlement. What seemed particularly odd to...scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling peals of thunder. As Rip and his companion approached... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 pages
...of Dominie Van Schaick, the village parson, and which had been brought over from Holland at the time of the settlement. What seemed particularly odd to...scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling peals of thunder. As Rip and his companion approached... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1897 - 256 pages
...of Dominie Van Shaick, the village parson, and which had been brought over from Holland at the time of the settlement. What seemed particularly odd to...scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling peals of thunder. As Rip and his companion approached... | |
 | James Baldwin - Readers - 1897 - 254 pages
...Dominie Van Schaick, the village parson, and which had been brought 10 over from Holland at the time of the settlement. What seemed particularly odd to...were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure is he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls,... | |
 | James Baldwin - Children's poetry - 1897 - 254 pages
...Dominie Van Schaick, the village parson, and which had been brought 10 over from Holland at the time of the settlement. What seemed particularly odd to...were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure IB he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1897 - 50 pages
...of Dominie Van Schaick, the village parson, and which had been brought over from Holland at the time of the settlement. What seemed particularly odd to...silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party ot pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - American literature - 1898 - 498 pages
...of Dominie Van Shaick, the village parson, and which had been brought over from Holland at the time of the settlement. What seemed particularly odd to...scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling peals of thunder. As Rip and his companion approached... | |
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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. 
