 | 1857 - 588 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 weathercock perched... | |
 | A. De Puy Van Buren - 1859 - 336 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,...at top, with huge ears, large green, glassy eyes, a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle-neck to tell which... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1860 - 854 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 the top, with huge ears ; large green, glassyeyes, and a long, snipe nose, so that it looked like a... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 532 σελίδες
...mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosel v hung together. His head was small, and flat at top,...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. His school-house... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 518 σελίδες
...mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most looselv hung together. His head was small, and flat at top,...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. His school-house... | |
 | Christian Friedrich Koch - 1865 - 554 σελίδες
...if I attempted) putting asunder those who wish for a union. Golds. To see (= seeing, if one ehould see) him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his cloth bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine. SK. Leg.... | |
 | 1866 - 538 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." Our readers... | |
 | C. F. Childs - 1867 - 262 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." We have been... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1869 - 264 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 corn-field. In addition... | |
 | Tom Hood - 1869 - 292 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,...profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bugging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of Famine descending upon... | |
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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... 
