 I recollect that when a stripling, my first exploit in squirrelshooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered into it at noontime, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my...  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 349edited by - 1862Full view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 438 pages
...grove of tall wallnut trees that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered into it at noon time, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled...ever I should wish for a retreat, whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 pages
...grove of tall walnut trees that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered into it at noon time, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled...ever I should wish for a retreat, whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I... | |
 | Washington Irving - England - 1822 - 490 pages
...grove of tall walnut trees that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered into it at noon time, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my own gun, as it broke THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW. 321 the sabbath stillness around, and was prolonged and reverberated by the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...grove of tall walnut trees that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered into it at noon lime, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled...ever I should wish for a retreat, whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
...when a stripling, my first exploit in squirrel-shooting was in a grove of tall walnuttrees that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered into it at...If ever I should wish for a retreat whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1830 - 346 pages
...grove of tall walnut trees that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered into it at noon time, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled...ever I should wish for a retreat, whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 pages
...a stripling, my first exploit in squirrel shooting was in a grove of tall walnut trees that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered into it at...ever I should wish for a retreat, whither I might steal from the world and its. distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life,... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1835 - 284 pages
...prove ot tall walnut trees that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered into it at noon time, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled...ever I should wish for a retreat, whither I might steal from the world 'and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 194 pages
...a stripling, my first exploit in squirrel shooting was in a grove of tall walnut trees that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered into it at...noon-time, when all nature is peculiarly quiet , and was started by the roar of my own gun, as it broke the sabbath stillness aronnd , and was prolonged and... | |
 | 1841 - 456 pages
...grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered into it at noon -time, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled...ever I should wish for a retreat, whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I... | |
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