 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 σελίδες
...hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with large ear*, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe noae, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 σελίδες
...hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with large ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1842 - 326 σελίδες
...shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top. with large ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose,...fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield." Now there is... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 478 σελίδες
...hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small,...fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. His school-house... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 482 σελίδες
...hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small,...weather-cock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which v*ay the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 544 σελίδες
...hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small,...fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. His school-house... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1853 - 304 σελίδες
...and fiat at top, with huge cars, large green glassy eyes, and a long smpe nose, so that it looked Eke a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see hmi striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - 1856 - 338 σελίδες
...hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small,...with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe-nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way... | |
 | 1857 - 588 σελίδες
...his spindle neck , to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field." NB — The... | |
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The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely... 
