| Washington Irving - 1905 - 138 pages
...as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his...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 like... | |
| Mary Blanche Rossman, Mary Wilda Mills - 1907 - 88 pages
...parrots in great numbers, and cockatoos, and all of them tame.—A''. S. Dodge. 160. Ichabod Crane was tall but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders,...shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering... | |
| 1902 - 438 pages
...for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodsmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his...sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, amid his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and fiat at top, with huge ears,... | |
| Emogene Sanford Simons - 1906 - 218 pages
...expressed it "tarried," in Sleepy Hollow for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity. ... He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders,...arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his coat sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most 1 By permission of... | |
| Washington Irving - 1906 - 570 pages
...for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodsmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, witb narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that... | |
| Emogene Sanford Simons - 1906 - 220 pages
...exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his coat sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most By permission of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Company. i loosely hung together. His head was small and... | |
| Carolyn M. Robbins, Robert Keable Row - 1907 - 328 pages
...Hollow, for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity. He was a native of Connecticut. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his...loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat on top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose so that it looked like a weathercock... | |
| Washington Irving - 1907 - 328 pages
...the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodsmen and country schoolmasters. The 10 cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person....whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was 15 small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that... | |
| Charles Swain Thomas, Will David Howe - 1908 - 536 pages
...— MACBETH. Falstaff sweats to death, and lards the lean earth as he walks along. — SHAKESPEARE. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders,...shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. — IRTING. Interrogation is the phrasing of a thought in question form, not for the purpose of securing... | |
| David Gibbs - 1908 - 602 pages
...the following description with tlie nouns that thcy modify: — Ichabod Crane The cognomen of Ichabod Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall,...shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled u mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely... | |
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