...characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON. 20 There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed...phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. He looked in vain for 25 the sage Nicholas Vedder, with his broad face, double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds...

...disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. He looked in vain for 25 the sage Nicholas Vedder, with his broad face, double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobaccosmoke instead of idle speeches; or Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents of...

...characters, 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...double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco-smoke instead of idle speeches; or Van Bummel. the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents...

...characters, 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...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...

...characters 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...about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquility. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholaus Vedder with his broad face, double chin and fair...

...preceding terms <he chose the eldest daughter whose numb composure he mistook for phlegm— Patton) <there was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about...instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity — Irving) Ana poise, equipose, »balance, equilibrium: self-possession, self-assurance, aplomb (see...

...the inn sign has been replaced by that of another George who carries a sword and not a sceptre; even the 'very character of the people seemed changed....of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity.' But despite the larger historical upheaval it is worth stressing that Rip's domestic scene has emphatically...

...night cap. ..." Worst of all, as a result of the arrival of democracy and its accompanying politics, "The very character of the people seemed changed....about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquility" (37). Irving's view of the revolution which began forty-two years before he wrote "Rip...

...his twenty year sleep, his quiet Hudson River hamlet had been totally transformed. Irving noted that "the very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquility." There was good...

...and finds a more dynamic world: "The very village was altered; it was larger and more populous. . . . The very character of the people seemed changed. There...was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it." Rip Van Winkle (and Washington Irving) look at this new society and approve of what they see. 9 Writers...