 How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, a dapper learned little man, who was not to be daunted by the most gigantic word in the dictionary ; and how sagely they would deliberate upon public...  Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Page 4by Washington Irving - 1893 - 218 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Hamer - 1903 - 362 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. Poor Rip was at last reduced almost to despair ; and his only alternative to escape from the labour... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1903 - 544 pages
...drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, a dapper, learned little man, who was not to he daunted by the most gigantic word in the dictionary...months after they had taken place. The opinions of this junto1 were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the... | |
 | ENGLISH & American masterpiece studies - 1906 - 408 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...landlord of the inn, at the door of which he took his sea£ from morning till night, just moving sufficiently to avoid the sun and keep in the shade of a... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1906 - 570 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...the dictionary; and how sagely they would deliberate apon public events some months after they had taken place. The opinions of this junto were completely... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1907 - 556 pages
...passing traveller. How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Bnmmel, the schoolmaster, a dapper learned little man, who...the dictionary; and how sagely they would deliberate npou public events some months after they had taken place. The opinions of this junto were completely... | |
 | George Henry Nettleton - 1901 - 270 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...not to be daunted by the most gigantic word in the 5 dictionary ; and how sagely they would deliberate upon public events some months after they had taken... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1907 - 328 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 was not to be daunted by the 25 most gigantic word in the dictionary ; and how sagely they would deliberate upon public events some... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1909 - 426 pages
...passing traveler. How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the school-master, a dapper learned little man, who...the dictionary; and how sagely they would deliberate 30 upon public events some months after they had taken place. The opinions of this junto were completely... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1909 - 428 pages
...passing traveler. How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the school-master, a dapper learned little man, who...the dictionary; and how sagely they would deliberate 30 upon public events some months after they had taken place. The opinions of this junto were completely... | |
 | 1910 - 408 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 was not to be daunted by the most gigantic 5 word in the dictionary; and how sagely they would deliberate upon public events some months after... | |
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