 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1852 - 324 pages
...the writer to excite emotions of a ludicrous nature. It is Irying's description of Ichabod Crane. " He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders,...out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for slwvels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1853 - 304 pages
...frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders,...most loosely hung together. His head was small and fiat at top, with huge cars, large green glassy eyes, and a long smpe nose, so that it looked Eke a... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1853 - 524 pages
...frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and }egs, hands that dangled a mile but of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - 1856 - 338 pages
...intellectual pioneer, named Ichabod Crane. ' The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders,...together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe-nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock, perched... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 478 pages
...frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders,...dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might Lave served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat... | |
 | A. De Puy Van Buren - 1859 - 336 pages
...of him we have space only for one. " He was tall but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, large arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his...together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green, glassy eyes, a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1860 - 854 pages
...frontier woodmen and country schoel-masters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders,...loosely hung together. His head was small and flat at the top, with huge ears ; large green, glassyeyes, and a long, snipe nose, so that it looked like a... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1860 - 478 pages
...ntier woodsmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and logs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 532 pages
...Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He- was tall, but exceedinglv lank, with narrow ghoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out...have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosel v hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes,... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1865 - 462 pages
...Hollow," in Irving's "Sketch-book." 4(5- " The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders,...together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large, green, glassy eyes, and a long, snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock... | |
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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... 
