 | American essays - 1896 - 374 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 schoolhouse was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs ; the windows partly... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 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... | |
 | Wells Hawks Skinner - English language - 1897 - 282 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. STUDIES. . I. In what points does the ludicrousness of the description consist? 2. What hyperbole in... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 72 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... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - Anthologies - 1897 - 644 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 schoolhouse was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs; the windows partly... | |
 | Northwest Territories Council of Public Instruction - 1897 - 628 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." — Irving' s "Legend of Sleepy Hollow.'1'' (a) Ask not more than four questions which should lead... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 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,...mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon J,__the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. His school-house was a low building of one... | |
 | Readers - 1898 - 266 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...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... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - Readers - 1898 - 328 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 schoolhouse was a long, low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs; the windows... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - Readers - 1898 - 328 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,...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... | |
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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. 
