 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.  The Beauties of Washington Irving - الصفحة 146بواسطة Washington Irving - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 270عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell...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... | |
 | 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 870
...flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field. His school-house was s low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs ; the windows partly... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 636
...flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew. ' The revenue arising from his school was small, and would have been scarcely^ sufficient to furnish... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 366
...flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 596
...flat at top, with huge ears, large green glass eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field.' — vol. ii. p. 352. In addition to his duties as schoolmaster of the village, Mr. Crane also makes... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 612
...flat at top, with huge ears, large green glass eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field.' — vol. ii. p. 352. In addition to his duties as schoolmaster of the village, Mr. Crane also makes... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 804
...flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell...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... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 270
...flat at top, with large ears, lasge green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck, to tell...hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and flattering about him, one might have mistaken him for^the genius of famine descending upon the earth,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell...descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn field. His school-room was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs ; the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 334
...flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell...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 glazed,... | |
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