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David Cameron: makes Tigger look like Rip van Winkle.
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A pagan Rip van Winkle, just waking up after a 2000-year sleep, would feel quite at home, observing a celebration taking place around the winter solstice organised around feasting, with little evidence of the intervening two millenniums of Christianity.
A culinary nativity with Jamie, Hugh and Lorraine | Joe Moran 2011
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Like a latter-day Rip van Winkle, he found the present unfathomable and unrecognizable.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Like a latter-day Rip van Winkle, he found the present unfathomable and unrecognizable.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Lavoisin approached each novelty of the day with wide, Rip van Winkle eyes.
Nutrition 2010
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Like a latter-day Rip van Winkle, he found the present unfathomable and unrecognizable.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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I knew part of the story because of Washington Irving's Rip van Winkle but did not have the names, dates and details.
Archive 2009-06-01 elena maria vidal 2009
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Any returning Rip van Winkle could fast get his bearings from a quick look at the television.
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We were late half an hour agonow we might as well be Rip van Winkle!
Beacon Street Girls: Fashion Frenzy Annie Bryant 2006
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We were late half an hour agonow we might as well be Rip van Winkle!
Beacon Street Girls: Fashion Frenzy Annie Bryant 2006
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