 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1835 - 284 pages
...and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small and flat at top, with huge cars, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked Eke a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1838 - 564 pages
...shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose,...genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some ecare-crow eloped from a cornfield. * » * It is meet I should, in the true spirit of romantic story,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1838 - 566 pages
...shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose,...fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genins of famine descending upon the earth, or some scare-crow eloped from a cornfield". a • •... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 478 pages
...shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose,...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. His school-house was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs; the windows partly... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1848 - 482 pages
...shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose,...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 pages
...shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose,...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. His school-house was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs; the windows partly... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 488 pages
...shovels, and Ms whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose,...descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped fram a cornfield. His school-house was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs... | |
 | Washington Irving - Gift books - 1853 - 304 pages
...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 - American literature - 1856 - 338 pages
...His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe-nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock, perched upon...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. The school-house stood in a rather lonely but pleasant situation, just at the foot of a woody hill,... | |
 | 1857 - 588 pages
...indicative of a whole class. Washington Irving's description of Ichabod Crane is an example in point : — " He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders,...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... | |
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To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, 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 cornfield. 
