 | Leroy E. Armstrong - 1916 - 408 pages
...with a cocked hat, and underneath was painted in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON. 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,... | |
 | Melvin Everett Haggerty - 1927 - 584 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,... | |
 | Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 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,... | |
 | Washington Irving, Arthur Rackham, Pat Stewart - 1983 - 52 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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1983 - 1198 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 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... | |
 | A. Robert Lee - 1986 - 216 pages
...George who carries a sword and not a sceptre; even the 'very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling disputatious tone about...of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity.' But despite the larger historical upheaval it is worth stressing that Rip's domestic scene has emphatically... | |
 | Gustavo Pérez Firmat - 1990 - 412 pages
...arrival of democracy and its accompanying politics, "The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquility" (37). Irving's view of the revolution which began forty-two years before he wrote "Rip... | |
 | Washington Irving, Thea Kliros - 1995 - 84 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,... | |
 | Christopher Looby - 1996 - 304 pages
...the people had changed too, and its change was also represented by an alteration of verbal phenomena: "There was a busy, bustling disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquility." And the vocabulary of politics had undergone a decisive modification, as evidenced by... | |
 | Gregg Camfield - 1997 - 255 pages
...ruins. When he goes to the village center, he finds "[t]he very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and tranquility" (48). Accused of being a traitor, he is in some physical danger, but his real woe is that... | |
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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. 
