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" 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 tranquillity. "
Rip Van Winkle: And Other American Essays from The Sketch-book - Page 11
by Washington Irving - 1891 - 99 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 34

1820 - 646 pages
...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,...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 Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of ..., Volume 5

1819 - 610 pages
...was, as usual, a crotrd of folk abtat the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling,...double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco smoke instead ef idle speeches ; or Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 1

Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...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,...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, Gent, Volume 1

Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...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,...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 Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review, Volume 2

1821 - 502 pages
...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. in' stead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. He look' ed in vain for the sage Nicholas...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 1

Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 402 pages
...face, double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco smoke instead of idle speeches ; oy 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 handbills, was haranguing vehemdntly...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...

Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...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,...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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Legends of Terror!: And Tales of the Wonderful and Wild ; Original and ...

English literature - 1826 - 654 pages
...was, as usual, a crowd ef folks about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the 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 Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 84

English literature - 1819 - 606 pages
...was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Hip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There •was a busy, bustling,...double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco smoke instead of idle spefches ; or Van Bummcl, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents...
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The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...

Washington Irving - American essays - 1831 - 518 pages
...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,...tranquillity. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedderj with his broad face, double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco smoke, instead...
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