 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 - Стр. 146авторы: Washington Irving - 1835 - Страниц: 270Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - Страниц: 72
...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...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 glazed,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - Страниц: 152
...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...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... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - 1897 - Страниц: 644
...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,... | |
 | Northwest Territories Council of Public Instruction - 1897 - Страниц: 628
...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." — Irving' s "Legend of Sleepy Hollow.'1'' (a) Ask not more than four questions which should lead... | |
 | Wells Hawks Skinner - 1897 - Страниц: 282
...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. STUDIES. . I. In what points does the ludicrousness of the description consist? 2. What hyperbole in... | |
 | Arnold Tompkins - 1897 - Страниц: 376
...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...mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield." 8. " Brussels, a city, capital of Belgium, on the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - Страниц: 152
...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...mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon J,__the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. His school-house was a low building of one... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1898 - Страниц: 328
...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 long, low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs; the windows partly... | |
 | 1898 - Страниц: 264
...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,... | |
 | James N. Patrick - 1898 - Страниц: 234
...flat at top, with huge ears, large, green, glassy eyes, and a long spine nose, so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck, to tell...striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped... | |
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