 | 1819 - 610 pages
...strange and incomprehensible about the unknown, that inspired awe, and checked familiarity. On entering the amphitheatre, new objects of wonder presented...jerkins, with long knives in their belts, and most had enormous breeches, of similar style with that of the guide's. Their visages, too, were peculiar... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...strange and incomprehensible about the unknown, that inspired awe and checked familiarity. On entering the amphitheatre, new objects of wonder presented...themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd looking personages playing at nine-pins. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion; some... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...strange and incomprehensible about the unknown, that inspired awe and checked familiarity. On entering the amphitheatre, new objects of wonder presented...themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd looking personages playing at nine-pins. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion : some... | |
 | 1821 - 502 pages
...wonder presented ' themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd' looking personage's playing at nine-pins. They were dressed in 'a quaint,...short doublets, others •jerkins, with long knives iu their belts, and most of them had 'enormous breeches, of similar style with that of the guide's.... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1823 - 392 pages
...strange and incomprehensible about the imknown, that inspired awe and checked familiarity. On entering the amphitheatre, new objects of wonder presented...was a company of odd-looking personages playing at nine -pins. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion; SQme \vore short doublets, others jerkins,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...strange and incomprehensible about the unknown, that inspired awe and checked familiarity. On entering the amphitheatre, new objects of wonder presented...was a company of odd-looking personages playing at nine -pins. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion ; some wore short doublets, others jerkins,... | |
 | 1824 - 394 pages
...strange and incomprehensible about the unknown, that inspired awe and checked familiarity. " On entering the amphitheatre, new objects of wonder presented themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a companyof odd looking personages playing at nine-pins. They were dressed iu a quaint outlandish fashion... | |
 | English literature - 1826 - 654 pages
...strange and incomprehensible about the unknown, that inspired awe, and checked familiarity. On entering the amphitheatre, new objects of wonder presented...themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd looking personages playing at nine-pins. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion ; some... | |
 | English literature - 1819 - 606 pages
...strange and incomprehensible aliout the unknown« that inspired awe, and checked familiarity. On entering the amphitheatre, new objects of wonder presented...themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd- looking personages playing at nine-pins. They were dressed in a quaint, outlandish fashion: some... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
...On a level spot in the centre wats a company of odd-looking personages playing at nine-pins. The}' were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion : some...with that of the guide's. Their visages, too, were pccu-- Har: one had a large head, broad face, and small piggish eyes ; the face of another seemed to... | |
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On entering the amphitheatre, new objects of wonder presented themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd-looking personages playing at nine-pins. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion; some wore short doublets, others jerkins,... 
