He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with... First Year English for High Schools - Стр. 196авторы: Emogene Sanford Simons - 1906 - Страниц: 207Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Washington Irving - 1881 - Страниц: 970
...dangled a mile out of his^leeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat...spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To sec him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy da}', with his clothes bagging- and fluttering... | |
| Washington Irving - 1882 - Страниц: 392
...dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat...him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy clay, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius... | |
| Washington Irving - 1882 - Страниц: 712
...dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge e.irs, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a. weathercock perched... | |
| Noah Webster - 1884 - Страниц: 362
...served for »hovels, and his whole tram« most loosely hung together. Ills henil was email, and fíat at top, with huge ears, large, green, glassy eyes, and a long, snipe nose, so th;it it looked like a weathercoek perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blrw.... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - 1888 - Страниц: 286
...for shovels, and his whole frame •> most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at v top, with huge ears, large, green, glassy eyes, and a long snipe v nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind... | |
| 1890 - Страниц: 864
...have served for shovels, and his whole frams) most loosely hung together. His head was small, and fiat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked Шее Е weather-cock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see him... | |
| Jenny H. Stickney - 1892 - Страниц: 416
...dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels ; and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat...his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew. 2. To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering... | |
| William Adolphus Wheeler - 1893 - Страниц: 488
...loosely hung together. Ilis 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...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... | |
| 1894 - Страниц: 768
...the bag and vial that the goddess gave to Umbriel ? 2. Of whom is this a description ? ' The head of was small and flat at top, with huge ears, large green...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... | |
| William Malone Baskervill, James Witt Sewell - 1895 - Страниц: 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... | |
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