 The sun gradually wheeled his broad disk down into the west. The wide bosom of the Tappan Zee lay motionless and glassy, excepting that here and there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant mountain. A few amber clouds...  A Practical System of Rhetoric - Page 75by Samuel Phillips Newman - 1852 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 438 pages
...there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant mountain. A few amber clouds floated in the sky, without a breath of air...parts of the river, giving greater depth to the dark grey and purple of their rocky sides. A sloop was loitering in the distance, dropping slowly down with... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 pages
...there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant mountain. A few amber clouds floated in the sky, without a breath of air...parts of the river, giving greater depth to the dark grey and purple of her rocky sides. A sloop was loitering in the distance, dropping slowly down with... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1823 - 402 pages
...there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant mountain. A few amber clouds floated in the sky without a breath of air...apple green, and from that into the deep blue of the mid-heayen. A slanting ray lingered on the woody crests of the precipices that overhung some parts... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...there . a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant mountain. A few amber clouds floated in the sky without a breath of air...parts of the river, giving greater depth to the dark gray and purple of their rocky sides. A sloop was loitering in the distance, dropping slowly down with... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1830 - 346 pages
...shadow of the distant mountain. A few amber clouds floated in the sky, without a breath of air to movfe them. The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing...parts of the river, giving greater depth to the dark grey and purple of her rocky sides. A sloop was loitering in the distance, dropping slowly down with... | |
 | 1832 - 478 pages
...there, a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant mountain. A few amber clouds floated in the sky, without a breath of air...woody crests of the precipices, that overhung some par{» of the river, giving greater depth to the dark gray and purple of their rocky sides. A sloop... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 pages
...there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant mountain. A few amber clouds floated in the sky without a breath of air...parts of the river, giving greater depth to the dark grey and purple of their rocky sides. A sloop was loitering in the distance, dropping slowly down with... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 284 pages
...there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant mountain. A few amber clouds floated in the sky, without a breath of air...parts of the river, giving greater depth to the dark gray and purple of their rocky sides. A sloop was loitering in the distance, dropping slowly down with... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 194 pages
...and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant monntain. A few amber clonds floated in the sky withont a breath of air to move them. The horizon was of a line golden tint , changing gradually into a pure apple green , and from that into the deep blue of... | |
 | 1836 - 342 pages
...shadow of the distant mountain ; a few amber clouds floated in the sky, without a breath of air to more them. The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing gradually into a pure apple grcen, and from that into a dcep blue of the mid-heaven. A slanting ray lingered on the woody crests... | |
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