 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1901 - 546 pages
...5 gularly metamorphosed. The red coat was changed for one of blue and buff, a sword was held in the hand instead of a sceptre, the head was decorated...was painted in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON. 2<xv.\ There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1901 - 538 pages
...sin15 gularly metamorphosed. The red coat was changed for one of blue and buff, a sword was held in the hand instead of a sceptre, the head was decorated...was painted in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON. 20 There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character... | |
 | George Riddle - Readers - 1902 - 648 pages
...singularly metamorphosed. The red coat was changed for one of blue and buff, a sword was held in the hand instead of a sceptre, the head was decorated...of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. The appearance of Rip, with his long grizzled beard, his rusty fowling-piece, his uncouth dress, and... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - History - 1982 - 344 pages
...singularly metamorphosed. The red coat was changed for one of blue and buff, a sword was held in the hand instead of a sceptre, the head was decorated...was painted in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON (p. 48). The spiritual family described by Willard will become the model for the new American family,... | |
 | C. W. E. Bigsby - Drama - 1985 - 500 pages
...singularly metamorphosed. The red coat was changed for one of blue and buff, a sword was held in the hand instead of a sceptre, the head was decorated...a cocked hat, and underneath was painted in large letters, General Washington.'34 With the aid of the sword, power has changed hands. The nature of power... | |
 | Washington Irving - Fiction - 1983 - 1198 pages
...singularly metamorphosed. The red coat was changed for one of blue and buff; a sword was held in the hand instead of a sceptre; the head was decorated with a cocked hat, and underneath was printed in large characters GENERAL WASHINGTON. There was as usual a crowd of folk about the door;... | |
 | Jan Wojcik, Raymond-Jean Frontain - Biography & Autobiography - 1984 - 236 pages
...singularly metamorphosed. The red coat was changed for one of blue and buff, a sword was held in the hand instead of a sceptre, the head was decorated...underneath was painted in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON.2 Though royal authority's symbol has been replaced with the sword of the revolutionary... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - Antonyms - 1984 - 950 pages
...preceding terms <he chose the eldest daughter whose numb composure he mistook for phlegm— Patton) <there was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about...instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity — Irving) Ana poise, equipose, »balance, equilibrium: self-possession, self-assurance, aplomb (see... | |
 | A. Robert Lee - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 216 pages
...the inn sign has been replaced by that of another George who carries a sword and not a sceptre; even the 'very character of the people seemed changed....of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity.' But despite the larger historical upheaval it is worth stressing that Rip's domestic scene has emphatically... | |
 | Peter J. Conn - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 624 pages
...incomprehensible. "He recognized on the sign, however, the ruby face of King George, . . . but . . . the head was decorated with a cocked hat, and underneath...painted in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON." FIGURE 49 *•• FOC Darley, Ichabod Crane. Irving's tales and sketches attracted a large number of... | |
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He recognized on the sign, however, the ruby face of King George, under which he had smoked so many a peaceful pipe; but even this was singularly metamorphosed. The red coat was changed for one of blue and buff, a sword was held in the hand instead of... 
