 | Friedrich Wilhelm P. Oertel - 1870 - 244 Seiten
...disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas 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... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 376 Seiten
...disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, with his broad face,...double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco«moke instead of idle speeches; or Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1872 - 460 Seiten
...disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas 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... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1873 - 532 Seiten
...schoolmaster, doling forth the contents of an ancient newspaper. In place of these, a lean, bilious look5 ing fellow, with his pockets full of handbills, was haranguing...congress — liberty — Bunker's hill — heroes of seventy-six—and other words, which were a perfect Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van Winkle.... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 Seiten
...disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. He looked in vain bethought himself a moment, and inquired, " Where's...Nicholas V edder?" There was a silence for a littl tobacco smoke instead of idle speeches ; or Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents... | |
 | Pádraig Ó Seaghdha - 1878 - 462 Seiten
...disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. 4. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, with his broad face,...double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco smoke instead of idla speeches; or Van-Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents... | |
 | 1875 - 324 Seiten
...disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. 3. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, with his broad face,...double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco smoke instead of idle speeches ; or Von Bummcl, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1876 - 458 Seiten
...Nicholas 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,...vehemently about rights of citizens — elections — memoers of Congress — liberty — Bunker's Hill — heroes of seventysix — and other words,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1878 - 152 Seiten
...the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, 40s with his broad face, double chin, and fair long pipe,...pockets full of handbills, was haranguing vehemently 410 about rights of citizens — elections — members of congress — liberty — Bunker's Hill —... | |
 | Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1878 - 186 Seiten
...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 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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GENERAL WASHINGTON. 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... 
