 | Albert Newton Raub - 1878 - 444 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 Yan Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1878 - 460 Seiten
...instead 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, uttering clouds of tobacco smoke instead of idle speeches; or Van Biunmel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents... | |
 | 1880 - 516 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,...congress — liberty — Bunker's Hill — heroes of seventy - six — and other words, which were a perfect Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van Winkle.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1880 - 444 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,...of an ancient newspaper. In place of these, a lean, bilioufi-looking fellow, with his pockets full of handbills, -was haranguing vehemently about rights... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1880 - 508 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,...doling forth the contents of an ancient newspaper. The appearance of Rip, with his long grizzled beard, his rusty fowling-piece, his uncouth dress, and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1880 - 460 Seiten
...the accustomed phlegm105 and drowsy tranquillity. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Veclder, with his broad face , double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco smoke instead of idle speeches; or Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling106 forth the contents... | |
 | Granville series - 1881 - 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,...bilious-looking fellow, with his pockets full of handbills, was haranguing5 vehemently6 about rights of citizens, elections, members of Congress, liberty, Buuker's-hill,7... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1882 - 558 Seiten
...about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. He looked in vain for the sago Nicholas Vedder, with his broad face, double chin,...doling forth the contents of an ancient newspaper. words, which were a perfect Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van Winkle. 3. The appearance of Rip,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 258 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 712 Seiten
...of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Veckler, 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... 
