The Greek has an incredible influence in the English language, we have more than 150.000 word that are derived from this old language. Most of the word use a shortened version of the word that comes from the Greek words, for example the word “democracy” include the prefix demos that means people, or arachnophobia that use a part from the greek phobos that is fear.
The description of setting in paragraph 7 of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is important to the theme of America's changing history in that it depicts Sleepy Hollow as a "drowsy" place caught in the past while great "currents" of change go on around it.