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On the Lower East Side—well, you know what it's like down there, always something new, but for me it's more this Rip van Winkle feeling, always further and further away.† (source)
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Nenny found a dollar and a dead mouse between two rocks in the stone wall where the morning glories climbed, and once when we were playing hide-and-seek, Eddie Vargas laid his head beneath a hibiscus tree and fell asleep there like a Rip Van Winkle until somebody remembered he was in the game and went back to look for him.† (source)
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How about "Rip Van Winkle"?† (source)
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I'm like that old man with the beard, Rip Van Winkle.† (source)
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The greatest change a suddenly awakened Rip Van Winkle would have noticed was a hushed expectancy, a mental glancing-over-the-shoulder, as mankind waited for the Overlords to show themselves and to step down from their gleaming ships.† (source)
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Listen to me, March, that old Rip van Winkle conked out on purpose.† (source)
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The story of Rip van Winkle is an example of the delicate case of the returning hero.† (source)
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Only I thought that the Rip Van Winkle story was all wrong.† (source)
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Well, the clerk wakes a nice young bell hop—fine lad—not a day over seventy-nine years old—fought at the Battle of Gettysburg and doesn't know it's over yet—thought I was one of the Confederates, I guess, from the way he looked at me—and Rip van Winkle took me up to something—I found out afterwards they called it a room, but first I thought there'd been some mistake—I thought they were putting me in the Salvation Army collection-box!† (source)
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"Very good," returned Hurstwood, "only it's the same old thing, 'Rip Van Winkle.'† (source)
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That spring Lena went with me to see Joseph Jefferson in 'Rip Van Winkle,' and to a war play called 'Shenandoah.'† (source)
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He played "Rip Van Winkle."† (source)
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Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on.† (source)
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All those years I'd drifted along too glassy and insulated for any kind of reality to push through: a delirium which had spun me along on its slow, relaxed wave since childhood, high and lying on the shag carpet in Vegas laughing at the ceiling fan, only I wasn't laughing any more, Rip van Winkle wincing and holding his head on the ground about a hundred years too late.† (source)
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Rip van Winkle never knew what he had experienced; his return was a joke.† (source)
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I could be Rip Van Winkle.† (source)
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