| 1890 - 864 pages
...the night-шаге, with her whole nine fold, seeins to nuke it the fuvurita scene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be oommander-in-cMef of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback without... | |
| Washington Irving - 1891 - 270 pages
...country, and the nightmare, with her whole ninefold,2 seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted...Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless Otittle during the Revolutionary War, and who is evei 1 More commonly... | |
| Washington Irving - 1891 - 140 pages
...country, and the nightmare, with her whole ninefold,2 seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted...Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the Revolutionary War, and who is ever 1 More commonly... | |
| Washington Irving - 1891 - 276 pages
...country, and the nightmare, with her whole ninefold,2 seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted...all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figare on horseback, without a head. It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose... | |
| 1892 - 606 pages
...country, and the nightmare, with her whole nine fold, seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted...Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the Revolutionary War; and who is ever and anon seen by... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 pages
...country, and the nightmare, with her whole nine fold,1 seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted...Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the Revolutionary War ; and who is ever and anon seen by... | |
| Washington Irving - 1892 - 160 pages
...; and the nightmare, with her whole ninefold,2 seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted...without a head. It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian3 trooper, whose 1 A distinguished English navigator, who made four voyages, attempting to find... | |
| Washington Irving - 1892 - 422 pages
...country, and the nightmare, with her whole ninefold, seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commmander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback without... | |
| Washington Irving - 1893 - 318 pages
...nightmare, ivith her whole nine fold, seems to make it the favourite scene of her gambols."^ P. 109. haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander-in-chief...Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the revolutionary war ; and who is ever and anon seen by... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1894 - 462 pages
...and the night-mare, with her whole niue fold, seems to make it the favorite si-ene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted...Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the revolutionary war, and who is ever and anon seen by... | |
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