 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1893 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...head was small, aud flat at top, with huge ears, large, green, glassy e\es. and a long, snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon...see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windv day. with his clothes lugging and fluttering about him. one might have mistaken him for the genius... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 234
...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. His schoolhouse was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs ; the windows partly... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 462
...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 weathercock perched upon...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. His school-house was a low building of on« large room, rudely constructed of logb ; the windows partly... | |
 | 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 768
...head of 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...his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew.' 3. What was the great secret that ' Little Ellie ' meant to tell her lover some day ? 4. Who were Adonais... | |
 | Kate Stephens, Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - عدد الصفحات: 392
...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. ingeniously secured at vacant hours by a withe twisted in the handle of the door, and stakes set against... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 482
...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. His school-house was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs ; the windows partly... | |
 | William Malone Baskervill, James Witt Sewell - 1895 - عدد الصفحات: 358
...yonder glade? POPE. Sentences with which and what in indirect ques- !"u^^ct tions : — His head . . . looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew. — IRYING. A lady once remarked, he [Coleridge] could never fix which side of the garden walk would... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 238
...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 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... | |
 | 1896 - عدد الصفحات: 374
...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 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... | |
 | Northwest Territories Council of Public Instruction - 1897 - عدد الصفحات: 628
...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 weathercock perched upon...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... | |
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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. 
