{"id":1289,"date":"2010-08-06T06:17:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T11:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:53:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:53:36","slug":"vocab-in-the-classics-the-legend-of-sleepy-hollow-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/vocab-in-the-classics-the-legend-of-sleepy-hollow-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocab in the Classics: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Vocab in the Classics. In our final post about The Legend of Sleepy Hollow<\/A>, we look at selections from Washington Irving’s short story.<\/em><\/p>\n

He was a native of Connecticut, a State which supplies the Union with pioneers for the mind as well as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions<\/a> of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen<\/a> of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank<\/a>, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In cold weather he was distinguished by a fur cap, surmounted with a flaunting<\/a> fox’s tail; and when the folks at a country gathering descried<\/a> this well-known crest at a distance, whisking about among a squad of hard riders, they always stood by for a squall<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He was satisfied with his wealth, but not proud of it; and piqued<\/a> himself upon the hearty abundance, rather than the style in which he lived.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That he might make his appearance before his mistress in the true style of a cavalier<\/a>, he borrowed a horse from the farmer with whom he was domiciliated<\/a>, a choleric<\/a> old Dutchman of the name of Hans Van Ripper, and, thus gallantly<\/a> mounted, issued forth like a knight-errant<\/a> in quest of adventures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There was something in the moody and dogged<\/a> silence of this pertinacious<\/a> companion that was mysterious and appalling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ichabod Crane was famously portrayed by Johnny Depp in the 1999 film, Sleepy Hollow<\/i>, although it’s clear from the description above that Depp is substantially more handsome and less ridiculous than Crane was meant to be.<\/p>\n

Read the original story here<\/A>.<\/p>\n

\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8kOK5HMdo_E<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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