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 Franklin Webster - 1900 - Страниц: 318
...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." So far this is but an amplification of his likeness to a crane ; certainly " a long snipe nose " "... | |
| H. S. Beresford-Webb - 1900 - Страниц: 216
...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...that it looked like a weathercock, [perched] upon his spindle-neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a... | |
| Washington Irving - 1900 - Страниц: 252
...dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might ha.ve 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 tha.t it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the... | |
| Lillian Kimball Stewart - 1900 - Страниц: 268
...or early in June. — Kipling. . $12. His head was small, and flat at top, w*ith huge ears, i''Harge green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like'p." weathercock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew. — Irving. 13.... | |
| Washington Irving - 1901 - Страниц: 218
...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...and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken hhn for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.... | |
| Washington Irving - 1901 - Страниц: 536
...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...which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profv\e ol a. \v\S\. oa ^. V\\v&^ §>a^ -wsh. his THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW 401 clothes bagging and... | |
| Washington Irving - 1901 - Страниц: 216
...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...like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck to tel! which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - 1901 - Страниц: 356
...served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small and flat at lop, with huge ears, large, green, glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cook perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along... | |
| Rose Mary, Kavana, Arthur Beatty - 1902 - Страниц: 472
...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,...fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the geniiis of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field. —WASHINGTON... | |
| Alice Woodworth Cooley, William Franklin Webster - 1903 - Страниц: 458
...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 eloped from a cornfield. WASHINGTON IRVING. Observe that the first sentence tells... | |
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