 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 452 pages
...frontier 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 legs, hands that dangled a mile out of Ms sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, Kate Stephens, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 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,...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 - 1848 - 482 pages
...frcntier woodsmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. lie 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... | |
 | William Malone Baskervill, James Witt Sewell - 1895 - 358 pages
...perfumes breathing upon him, that grew stronger and sweeter in proportion as he advanced. — /^. 14. With narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves. —IRVING. II. RELATIVE AND ANTECEDENT. 414. The general rule is, that the relative pro- The rulenoun... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 238 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,...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 weathercock perched... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 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,...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... | |
 | Northwest Territories Council of Public Instruction - 1897 - 628 pages
...difficulties. ((;) Answer these questions. III. "The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to this 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 weathercock perched... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 72 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,...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... | |
 | Arnold Tompkins - 1897 - 376 pages
...trees, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubblefields." 7. " 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... | |
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