 | Wells Hawks Skinner - 1897 - 282 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. STUDIES. . I.... | |
 | Northwest Territories Council of Public Instruction - 1897 - 628 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." — Irving'... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 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 J,__the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. His school-house... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 72 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... | |
 | 1898 - 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 cornfield. His schoolhouse... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1898 - 328 σελίδες
...hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeve's, 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... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1898 - 328 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,...wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a lull on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him... | |
 | James N. Patrick - 1898 - 234 σελίδες
...narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame was loosely hung together. His head was small and flat...with huge ears, large, green, glassy eyes, and a long spine nose, so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1899 - 220 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... | |
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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... 
