 | Washington Irving, Arthur Rackham, Pat Stewart - 1983 - 52 Seiten
...chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco-smoke instead of idle speeches; or Van Bummel, the school-master, doling forth the contents of an ancient...congress — liberty — Bunker's Hill — heroes of seventysix — and other words, which were a perfect Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van Winkle.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1983 - 1198 Seiten
...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. In place of these a lean bilious looking fellow with his pockets full of hand bills, was haranguing vehemently about rights... | |
 | Christopher Looby - 1996 - 304 Seiten
...modification, as evidenced by the speech of a man handing out broadsides in front of the hotel, who was "haranguing vehemently about rights of citizens...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 - 1998 - 840 Seiten
...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...handbills, was haranguing vehemently about rights of citizens—elections—members of congress—liberty—Bunker's Hill—heroes of seventy-six—and... | |
 | Andrei Cherny - 2008 - 290 Seiten
...did, he uttered his last words: "Thomas Jefferson still survives." He was right. BACKTO THE FUTURE A lean, bilious-looking fellow, with his pockets full...citizens— elections — members of congress — liberty— Bunkers Hill— heroes of seventysix— and other words which were a perfect Babylonish jargon to the... | |
 | Paul Downes - 2002 - 255 Seiten
...what he sees instead is "a lean billious-looking fellow, with his pockets full of hand-bills . . . haranguing vehemently about rights of citizens - elections...members of congress liberty Bunker's Hill - heroes of seventy-six - and other words, which were a perfect Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van Winkle"... | |
 | Brian Thomsen - 2002 - 612 Seiten
...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. In place of these a lean bilious looking fellow with his pockets full of hand bills, was haranguing vehemently about rights... | |
 | Thomas Hallock - 2003 - 316 Seiten
...different kind of character: "a lean, bilious-looking fellow, with his pockets full of handbills, [who] was haranguing vehemently about rights of citizens...congress — liberty — Bunker's Hill — heroes of seventy-six." All of this was "perfect Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van Winkle." His ties to... | |
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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. In place of these, a lean, bilious-looking fellow,... 
