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" There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. "
The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of The Scots ... - Page 320
1819
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A Century of American Literature, 1776-1876

Henry Augustin Beers - 1878 - 450 pages
...underneath was painted in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON. There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very...double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco-smoke instead of idle speeches ; or Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents...
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The Normal Fifth Reader

Albert Newton Raub - 1878 - 444 pages
...decorated with a cocked hat, and underneath was painted in large characters, " General Washington." the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling,...long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco smoke, instead of idle speeches; or Yan Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents of an ancient newspaper....
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Six Selections from Irving's Sketch-book: With Notes, Questions, Etc., for ...

Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1878 - 206 pages
...was painted in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON. m There was, as usual, a crowd of folks about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very...tranquillity. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, «a with his broad face, double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco-smoke instead...
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Six Selections from Irving's Sketchbook

Washington Irving - 1878 - 152 pages
...characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON. 400 There was, as usual, a crowd of folks about the door, but none that Eip recollected. The very character of the people seemed...tranquillity. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, 40s with his broad face, double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco-smoke instead...
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Reading and Elocution: Theoretical and Practical

Anna Randall Diehl - 1878 - 460 pages
...underneath was painted in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON. There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very...of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. Ho looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Tedder, with his broad face, double chin, and fair long pipe,...
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Six Selections from Irving's Sketch-book: With Notes, Questions, Etc. for ...

Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1878 - 186 pages
...the gyves." The red cap worn by French revolutionists is by them cherished as a symbol of liberty. but none that Rip recollected. The very character...disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm 1 and drowsy tranquillity. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, with his broad face, double...
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Our favourite fairy tales and famous histories, told for the hundredth time

Henry William Dulcken - 1880 - 508 pages
...was painted, " The Union Hotel, by Jonathan Doolittle." There was, as usual, a crowd of folks about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very...double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco-smoke instead of idle speeches ; or Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents...
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American Prose: Hawthorne: Irving: Longfellow: Whittier: Holmes: Lowell ...

1880 - 444 pages
...underneath was painted in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON. There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very...double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco-smoke instead of idle speeches ; or Van Bummel, the school-master, doling forth the contents...
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The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.].

Washington Irving - 1880 - 444 pages
...painted in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON. There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the doo;% but none that Rip recollected. The very character...double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco-smoke instead of idle speeches ; or Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents...
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American Prose: Hawthorne: Irving: Longfellow: Whittier: Holmes: Lowell ...

1880 - 516 pages
...painted in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON. There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, hut none that Rip recollected. The very character of the...double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco-smoke instead of idle speeches ; or Van Bummel, the school-master, doling forth the contents...
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