He was gaunt and shagged, with a ewe neck and a head like a hammer; his rusty mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burrs; one eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectral; but the other had the gleam of a genuine devil in it. American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 523publié par - 1838Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 482 pages
...mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burrs ; one eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectral ; but the other had the gleam of a genuine...had fire and mettle in his day, if we may judge from the name he bore of Gunpowder. He had, in fact, been a favorite steed of his master's, the choleric... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1895 - 440 pages
...mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burrs ; one eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectral ; but the other had the gleam of a genuine...Still he must have had fire and mettle in his day, if \ve may judge from the name he bore of Gunpowder. He had, in fact, been a favorite steed of his master's,... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 460 pages
...mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burrs ; one eve had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectral ; but the other had the gleam of a genuine devil in it." ' " Sylvia Crane's house was the one in which her grandmother had been born, and was the oldest house... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1895 - 432 pages
...rusty mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burs ; one eye had lost its pupil and was glaring and spectral; but the other had the gleam of a genuine devil in it." "He is an American plow-horse of Dutch descent," continued the Artist. " Indeed his ancestors, for... | |
 | 1896 - 374 pages
...mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burrs. One eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectral, but the other had the gleam of a genuine...Gunpowder. He had, in fact, been a favorite steed of his master's, the choleric Van Ripper, who was a furious rider, and had infused, very probably, some... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 238 pages
...mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burrs ; one eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectral ; but the other had the gleam of a genuine...had fire and mettle in his day, if we may judge from the name he bore of Gunpowder. He had, in fact, been a favorite steed of his master's, the choleric... | |
 | Wells Hawks Skinner - 1897 - 282 pages
...mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burrs; one eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectral, but the other had the gleam of a genuine...Gunpowder. He had, in fact, been a favorite steed of his master's, the choleric Van Ripper, who was a furious rider, and had infused, very probably, some... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 72 pages
...mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burrs; one eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectral, but the other had the gleam of a genuine...Gunpowder. He had, in fact, been a favorite steed of his master's, the choleric Van Ripper, who was a furious rider, and had infused, very probably, some... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 pages
...mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burrs ; one eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectral, but the other had the gleam of a genuine...Gunpowder. He had, in fact, been a favorite steed of his master's, the choleric Van Ripper, who was a furious rider, and had infused, very probably, some... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - 1897 - 644 pages
...rusty mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burs; one eye had lost its pupil and was glaring and spectral, but the other had the gleam of a genuine...Gunpowder. He had in fact been a favorite steed of his master's, the choleric Van Ripper, who was a furious rider, and had infused, very probably, some... | |
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