 | Washington Irving - 1886 - 522 pages
...whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture induced Rip, involuntarily, to do the same,...now entered the skirts of the village. A troop of strauge children ran at his heels, hooting after him, and pointing at his gray beard. The dogs, too,... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture induced Rip, involuntarily, to do the same,...his gray beard. The dogs, too, not one of which he recognized for an old acquaintance, barked at him as he passed. The very village was altered; it was... | |
 | William A. Campbell - 1890 - 514 pages
...and whenever they cast eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture, induced Rip, involuntarily, to do the same,...his gray beard. The dogs, too, not one of which he recognized for an old acquaintance, barked at him as he passed. The very village was altered; it was... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1888 - 748 pages
...whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture induced Rip, involuntarily, to do the same,...his gray beard. The dogs, too, not one of which he recognized for an old acquaintance, barked at him as he passed. The very village was altered; it was... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1888 - 622 pages
...whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture induced Rip, involuntarily, to do the same,...pointing at his gray beard. The dogs, too, not one of whom he recognized for an old acquaintance, barked at him as he passed. The very village was altered... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1888 - 366 pages
...War takes place. After awaking, Rip returns to the village, which he finds busied with an election. HE had now entered the skirts of the village. A troop...his gray beard. The dogs, too, not one of which he recognized for an old acquaintance, barked at him as he passed. The very village was altered ; it was... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889 - 524 pages
...whenever they cast eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of» this gesture induced Rip, involuntarily, to do the same,...his gray beard. The dogs, too, not one of which he recognized for an old acquaintance, barked at him as he passed. The very village was altered ; it was... | |
 | 1891 - 432 pages
...whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture induced Rip, involuntarily, to do the same,...his gray beard. The dogs, too, not one of which he recognized for an old acquaintance, barked at him as he passed. The very village was altered ; it was... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 276 pages
...whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture induced Rip, involuntarily, to do the same,...his gray beard. The dogs, too, not one of which he recognized for an old acquaintance, barked at him as he passed. The very village was altered ; it was... | |
 | 1891 - 508 pages
...whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture induced Rip, involuntarily, to do the same,...his gray beard. The dogs, too, not one of which he recognized for an old acquaintance, barked at him as he passed. The very village was altered ; it was... | |
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... country round. Their dress, too, was of a different fashion from that to which he was accustomed. They all stared at him with equal marks of surprise, and whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence... 
