 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 392 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,...him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy clay, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 712 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 huge e.irs, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a. weathercock perched... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1883 - 52 σελίδες
...dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame no most loosely hung together. His head was small, and...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 - 1884 - 472 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-room... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1884 - 362 σελίδες
...served for »hovels, and his whole tram« most loosely hung together. Ills henil was email, and fíat at top, with huge ears, large, green, glassy eyes, and a long, snipe nose, so th;it it looked like a weathercoek perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blrw.... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 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. ... In addition... | |
 | 1885 - 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 schoolhouse... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 σελίδες
...of the name of Ichabod Crane, whose business is to instruct the children of his enchanted region : a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell...fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. ... In addition... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1888 - 286 σελίδες
...hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, vfeet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame •> most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at v top, with huge ears, large, green, glassy eyes, and a long snipe v nose, so that it looked like a... | |
 | John Kennedy - 1890 - 314 σελίδες
...alternating ; reciprocal, reciprocity, reciprocate. L. reciprocus. To see him striding along the pro/Me of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging...fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow etoped from a cornfield. — Irving.... | |
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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... 
