 He now hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn. But it, too, was gone. A large, rickety wooden building stood in its place, with great gaping windows, some of them broken and mended with old hats and petticoats, and over the door...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 1521820Full view - About this book
 | Cassell, ltd - 1885 - 224 pages
...again was silence. He now hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn — but it too was gone. A large rickety wooden building stood in...shelter the quiet little Dutch inn of yore, there was now reared a tall ->ole with something on the top that looked like DIRGE FOR ONE WHO FELL IN BATTLE.... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 620 pages
...again was silence. He now hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn ; but it too was gone. A large rickety wooden building stood in...that used to shelter the quiet little Dutch inn of yore,2 there was now reared a tall naked pole,3 with something on the top that looked like a red nightcap... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 624 pages
...again was silence. He now hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn ; but it too was gone. A large rickety wooden building stood in...that used to shelter the quiet little Dutch inn of yore,2 there was now reared a tall naked pole,3 with something on the top that looked like a red nightcap... | |
 | American wit and humor - 1888 - 742 pages
...again was silence. He now hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn — but it too was gone. A large rickety wooden building stood in...now was reared a tall naked pole, with something on the top that looked like a red night-cap, and from it was fluttering a flag, on which was a singular... | |
 | William A. Campbell - Readers - 1890 - 514 pages
...again was silence. He now hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn ; but it, too, was gone. A large, rickety wooden building stood in...now was reared a tall naked pole, with something on the top that looked like a red night-cap ; and from it, was fluttering a flag, on which was a singular... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - Readers, American - 1888 - 366 pages
...again was silence. He now hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn ; but it, too, was gone. A large, rickety wooden building stood in...now was reared a tall, naked pole, with something on the top that looked like a red nightcap ; and from it was fluttering a flag, on which was a singular... | |
 | Mark Twain - Fiction - 1888 - 748 pages
...again was silence. He now hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn — but it too was gone. A large rickety wooden building stood in...Dutch inn of yore, there now was reared a tall naked jxjle, with something on the top that looked like a red night-cap, and from it was fluttering a flag,... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...and children—the lonely chambers rang for a moment with his voice, and then all again was silence. the quiet little Dutch inn of yore, there now was reared a tall naked pole, with something on the top that looked like a red night-cap, and from it was fluttering a flag, on which was a singular... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - Readers - 1889 - 524 pages
...was silence. 10* He now hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn ; but it too was gone. A large rickety wooden building stood in...and petticoats, and over the door was painted, "The 5 Union Hotel, by Jonathan Doolittle." Instead of the great tree that used to shelter the quiet little... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 140 pages
...was silence. He now hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn — but it, too, was gone. A large, rickety wooden building stood in...now was reared a tall naked pole, with something on the top that looked like a red night-cap, and from it was fluttering a flag, on which was a singular... | |
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