 | 1874 - 820 pages
...shovels, and his whole frame hung loosely together. His head was small, and flat at the top, with huge ears, large, green, glassy eyes, and a long snipe...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield." And Rip Van Winkle ! — what shall we say of him ? Many thousands of people have heard of him through... | |
 | Washington Irving - Avarice - 1875 - 98 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 corn-field. , His school-house was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs ; the windows partly... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 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,...clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might hare mistaken him for the genius of Famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1874 - 454 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,...spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To sce him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1876 - 452 pages
...shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. H:s 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... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1877 - 454 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... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1877 - 512 pages
...graphic personal representative of Romeo's apothecary, as regards his lank proportions ; to see whom striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes (too big for his shrunk shank and wasted waist) bagging and fluttering about him, was like seeing the... | |
 | Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1878 - 186 pages
...His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose,2 so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.//' His schoolhouse was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs ; the windows partly... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1878 - 446 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,...the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile pf a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken... | |
 | Washington Irving - Readers - 1878 - 152 pages
...and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck to tell uo which way the wind blew. To see him striding along...fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the 94. Vegetating, living like vegetables or plants. The word is peculiarly appropriate to human life... | |
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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. 
