| 1820 - 646 pages
...passing traveller. How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, a dapper learned little man, who...public events some months after they had taken place. ' p. 65, 66. When driven from this retreat, he used to take his gun and shoot squirrels all day among... | |
| 1819 - 610 pages
...passing traveller. How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, a dapper learned little man, who...they would deliberate upon public events some months aftef they had taken place. The opinions of this junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 pages
...passing traveller. How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the school-master, a dapper learned little man, who...junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn, at the door of which he took his seat from morning... | |
| Washington Irving - 1820 - 364 pages
...passing traveller. How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, a dapper learned little man, who...junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn, at the door of which he took his seat from morning... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1820 - 636 pages
...summer's day, talk listlessly over village gossip, or tell endless sleepy •lories about nothing. The opinions of this junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn, at the door of which he took his seat from morning... | |
| Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...passing traveller. How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, a dapper learned little man, who...junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn, at the door of which he took his seat from morning... | |
| 1826 - 654 pages
...passing traveller. How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, a dapper learned little .man, who...months after they had taken place. The opinions of the junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of... | |
| 1819 - 606 pages
...passing traveller. How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, a dapper learned little man,' who...word in the dictionary ; and how sagely they would deliberate1 upon public events some months after they had taken place. The opinions of this junto were... | |
| 1828 - 394 pages
...passing traveller. How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, a dapper learned little man, who...junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn, at the door of which he took his seat from morning... | |
| Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
...passing traveller. How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, a dapper learned little man, who...daunted by the most gigantic word in the dictionary ; an3 how sagely they would deliberate upon public events some months after they had taken place. The... | |
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