 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
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck, Lura E. Runkel - 1921 - Страниц: 618
...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...green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it 15 looked like a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see... | |
 | William Harris Elson - 1921 - Страниц: 520
...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...green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it i5 looked like a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see... | |
 | William Louis Ettinger - 1922 - Страниц: 280
...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...fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for some scarecrow escaped from a cornfield. His schoolroom was a low building of one large room, rudely... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1922 - Страниц: 136
...dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame tnost loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat...hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and Buttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth,... | |
 | Henry Adelbert White - 1922 - Страниц: 360
...served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at the top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and...clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have taken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from the cornfield.... | |
 | George Pickett Wilson - 1922 - Страниц: 218
...Note his use of concrete words and ridiculous comparisons : ' ' His head was small, and flat at the top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and...that it looked like a weathercock perched upon his slender neck to tell which way the wind blew. ' ' The student who remarked that her teacher had "a... | |
 | Henry Adelbert White - 1922 - Страниц: 360
...whole frame most loosely hunr £ , fifVe His head was small, and flat at the top, with huge ears Marl glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like aw ^T^ cock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wir^i To see him striding along the... | |
 | 1925 - Страниц: 568
...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...with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snip nose, so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the... | |
 | John Harrie Beveridge, Belle M. Ryan, William Dodge Lewis - 1926 - Страниц: 474
...mile out of his sleeves and feet that might have served for shovels his head was small and flat at the top with huge ears large green glassy eyes and a long snipe nose 8. DICTIONARY LESSON You know how to use the dictionary to find the meanings of words, and to pronounce... | |
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