Irving, Washington

1. A nineteenth-century American author. “ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ” and “Rip Van Winkle” are two of his best-known works.

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Washington Irving had powerfully done that some years before in Geoffrey Crayon.

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Who ever wrote about it more acutely than Washington Irving?

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Another legend has been put into literary form by Washington Irving, this time from a Portuguese source.

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I modestly replied, I should be glad of a few lines written by Washington Irving.

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We read Washington Irving on the fascinating spots which he describes so vividly.

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But what does my poor pen with what our own wizard of the west, Washington Irving, has made immortal?

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Meetin a young married couple, they asked me if I could direct them to the hotel which Washington Irving used to keep?

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