 | Arthur G. Adams - Literary Criticism - 1980 - 356 pages
...underneath, was painted in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON. There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very...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, Arthur Rackham, Pat Stewart - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1983 - 52 pages
...underneath was painted in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON. There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - Fiction - 1983 - 1198 pages
...underneath was printed in large characters GENERAL WASHINGTON. There was as usual a crowd of folk about the door; but none that Rip recollected. The very...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... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - Antonyms - 1984 - 950 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
