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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. "
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms: A Dictionary of Discriminated ... - Page 296
by Merriam-Webster, Inc - 1984 - 940 pages
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Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections ...

Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 pages
...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:...of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, with his broad face, double chin, and fair long pipe,...
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Reading and Elocution: Theoretical and Practical

Anna Randall Diehl - 1872 - 460 pages
...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...of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, with his broad face, double chin, and fair long pipe,...
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A Manual of American Literature: Designed for the Use of Schools of Advanced ...

Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 382 pages
...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...of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, with his broad face, double chin, and fair long pipe,...
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The casquet of literature, a selection in poetry and prose, ed ..., Volumes 1-2

Casket - 1873 - 874 pages
...folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. r came back again." " Where's Van Bummel, He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, with his broad face, double chin, and fair long pipe,...
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The Fifth Progressive Reader, Volume 5

Pádraig Ó Seaghdha - 1878 - 462 pages
...crowd about the door, but none that Hip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about...of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. 4. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, with his broad face, double chin, and fair long...
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The Pacific Coast First [-fifth] Reader, Volume 5

1875 - 324 pages
...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...of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. 3. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, with his broad face, double chin, and fair long...
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Cassell's illustrated readings, Volume 1; Volume 66

Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...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...of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. The appearance of Rip, with his long grizzled beard, his rusty fowling-piece, his uncouth dress, and...
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The Speaker's Garland and Literary Bouquet, Volume 2

1876 - 732 pages
...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...of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, with his broad face, double chin, and fair long pipe,...
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A Century of American Literature, 1776-1876

Henry Augustin Beers - 1878 - 510 pages
...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...of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, with his broad face, double chin, and fair long pipe,...
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Six Selections from Irving's Sketch-book: With Notes, Questions, Etc., for ...

Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1878 - 206 pages
...folks about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about...of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, «a with his broad face, double chin, and fair long...
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