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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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The Speaker's Garland, Volume 2

P. Garrett - 1892 - 906 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 Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gentn. [pseud.]

Washington Irving - 1892 - 422 pages
...underneath was painted iii 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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Ten Selections from The Sketch-book

Washington Irving - 1892 - 242 pages
...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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Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving - 1893 - 318 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...long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco smoke instead of idle speeches ; or Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents of an ancient newspaper....
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Selections from Washington Irving

Washington Irving - 1894 - 422 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 tobaccosmoke instead of idle speeches ; or Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents...
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Selections from the Sketch Book

Washington Irving - 1894 - 234 pages
...characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON. There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Kip recollected. The very character of the people seemed...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 New Fifth Reader

Richard Gilmour - 1894 - 418 pages
...was decorated with a cocked hat, and underneath was painted in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON. people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling,...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 Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the ..., Volume 2

Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1894 - 462 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...and drowsy tranquillity. He looked in vain for the sago Nicholas Vedder, with his broad face, double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco...
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The sketch book: Bändchen 1

Washington Irving - 1894 - 280 pages
...instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas ss Vedder, with his broad face, double chin, and fair...long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco smoke instead of idle speeches ; or Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents of an ancient newspaper....
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The Hudson River in Literature: An Anthology

Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 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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