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" When anything that was read or related displeased him, he was observed to smoke his pipe vehemently, and to send forth short, frequent, and angry puffs, but when pleased, he would... "
Rip Van Winkle, and Other Sketches - Page 12
by Washington Irving - 1882 - 240 pages
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The beaver trappers, tr. from the Germ. of Horan by J. Henderson: and other ...

Friedrich Wilhelm P. Oertel - 1870 - 244 pages
...smoke his pipe vehemently, and send forth short, frequent, and angry whiffs ; but when pleased, he would inhale the smoke slowly and tranquilly, and...the pipe from his mouth, and letting the fragrant vapour curl about his nose, would gravely nod his head in token of perfect approbation. From even this...
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Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections ...

American literature - 1872 - 660 pages
...smoke his pipe vehemently, and to send forth short, frequent, .and angry puffs; but, when pleased, he would inhale the smoke slowly and tranquilly, and...vapor curl about his nose, would gravely nod his head iu token of perfect approbation. From even this stronghold the unlucky Eip was at length routed by...
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Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections ...

Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...smoke his pipe vehemently, and to send forth short, frequent, and angry puffs; but, when pleased, he would inhale the smoke slowly and tranquilly, and...clouds; and sometimes, taking the pipe from his mouth, aud letting the fragrant vapor curl about his nose, would gravely nod his head in token of perfect...
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The casquet of literature, a selection in poetry and prose, ed ..., Volumes 1-2

Casket - 1873 - 874 pages
...tu smoke his pipe vehemently and send forth short, frequent, and angry puffs; but when pi tared, he s this: — cloud.-, and sometimes taking the pipe from his mouth. and letting the fragrant vapour curl about Ыnose....
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The Holborn Series of Reading Books. Instructive Reader

Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 pages
...to smoke his pipe vehemently, and send forth short, frequent, and angry puffs ; but when pleased, he would inhale the smoke slowly and tranquilly, and...the pipe from his mouth, and letting the fragrant vapour curl about his nose, would gravely nod his head in token of perfect approbation. From even this...
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A Century of American Literature, 1776-1876

Henry Augustin Beers - American literature - 1878 - 510 pages
...smoke his pipe vehemently, and to send forth short, frequent, and angry puffs ; but when pleased, he would inhale the smoke slowly and tranquilly, and...approbation. From even this stronghold the unlucky Rip was at length routed by his termagant wife, who would suddenly break in upon the tranquillity of...
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Six Selections from Irving's Sketch-book: With Notes, Questions, Etc. for ...

Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1878 - 186 pages
...smoke his pipe vehemently, and to send forth short, frequent, and angry puffs ; but when pleased, he would inhale the smoke slowly and tranquilly, and...and letting the fragrant vapor curl about his nose, wduld gravely nod his head in token of perfect approbation. From even this stronghold the unlucky Rip...
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Six Selections from Irving's Sketch-book: With Notes, Questions, Etc., for ...

Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - Readers - 1878 - 206 pages
...smoke his pipe vehemently, and to send forth short, frequent, and angry puffs ; but when pleased, he would inhale the smoke slowly and tranquilly, and...and sometimes, taking the pipe from his mouth, and H. letting the fragrant vapor curl about his nose, would gravely nod his head in token of perfect approbation....
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American Prose: Hawthorne: Irving: Longfellow: Whittier: Holmes: Lowell ...

American literature - 1880 - 516 pages
...smoke his pipe vehemently, and to send forth short, frequent, and angry puffs ; but when pleased, he would inhale, the smoke slowly and tranquilly, and...approbation. From even this stronghold the unlucky Rip was at length routed by his termagant wife, who would raddenly break in upon the tranquillity of...
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Stories for standard i (-vi).

mrs. William Thomas Greenup - 1880 - 328 pages
...to smoke his pipe vehemently, and send forth short, frequent, and angry puffs ; but when pleased, he would inhale the smoke slowly and tranquilly, and...the pipe from his mouth, and letting the fragrant vapour curl about his nose, would gravely nod his head in token of perfect approbation. From even this...
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