 | Pádraig Ó Seaghdha - 1878 - 462 pages
...bustled up to him, and, drawing him partly aside, inquired " on which side he voted?" 6. Kip stared in vacant stupidity. Another short but busy little...the right and left with his elbows as he passed, and planting himself before Van Winkle, with one arm akimbo, the other resting on his cane, his keen eyes... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 pages
...orator bustled up to him, and drawing him partly aside, inquired " on which side he voted?" Rip stared nd deficiencies of others ; as true refinement turns...away at the daubing of a signpost, nor Homer hold his parsed, and planting himself before Van Wrinkle, with one arm akimbo, the other resting on his cane,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1873 - 532 pages
...in his ear, " whether he was Federal or Demo20 crat ? " Eip was equally at a loss to comprehend tho question; when a knowing, self-important old gentleman,...the right and left with his elbows as he passed, and planting himself before Van Winkle, with 35 one arm akimbo, the other resting on his cane, his keen... | |
 | 1875 - 324 pages
...orator bustled up to him, and, drawing him partly aside, inquired "on which side he voted?" Kip stared in vacant stupidity. Another short but busy little...in his ear, " whether he was Federal or Democrat? " 5. Rip was equally at a loss to comprehend the question ; when a knowing, self-important old gentleman,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...orator bustled up to him, and drawing him partly aside, inquired " on which side he voted ? " Rip stared in vacant stupidity. Another short but busy little...rising on tiptoe, inquired in his ear "whether he was a Federal or Democrat ? " " Alas ! gentlemen," cried Rip, somewhat dismayed, " I am a poor, quiet man... | |
 | 1876 - 732 pages
...orator bustled up to him, and, drawing him partly aside, inquired " on which side he voted?" Rip stared in vacant stupidity. Another short but busy little...rising on tiptoe, inquired in his ear, " whether he was a Federal or Democrat?" Eip was equally at a loss to comprehend the qnestion ; when a knowing, self-important... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1878 - 510 pages
...orator bustled up to him. and, drawing him partly aside, inquired "On which- side he voted?" Rip stared in vacant stupidity. Another short, but busy little...the right and left with his elbows as he passed, and planting himself before Van Winkle, with one arm akimbo, the other resting on his cane, his keen eyes... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1878 - 444 pages
...drawing him partly aside, inquired " on which side he voted ? " Rip stared in vacant stupidity. 6. Another short but busy little fellow pulled him by...inquired in his ear " whether he was Federal or Democrat ? " 7. Rip was equally at a loss to comprehend the question, when a knowing, self-important old gentleman,... | |
 | Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1878 - 206 pages
...of the person), dulness, sluggishness, apathy. in his ear " whether he was Federal or Democrat." Eip was equally at a loss to comprehend the question ;...self-important old gentleman, in a sharp cocked hat, made his 425 way through the crowd, putting them to the right and left with his elbows as he passed, and planting... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1878 - 152 pages
...bustled up to him, and, drawing him partly aside, inquired " on which side he voted." 420 Eip stared in vacant stupidity. Another short but busy little...pulled him by the arm, and, rising on tiptoe, inquired 397. Metamorphosed (Gr. fierd, meta, implying change ; p.opij>ri, morphe, form), transformed. 404.... | |
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Rip was equally at a loss to comprehend the question; when a knowing, self-important old gentleman, in a sharp cocked hat, made his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and left with his elbows as he passed, and planting himself before Van... 
