 | H. S. Beresford-Webb - 1900 - 216 pages
...bamaligen 3eit XLV.— The Village Schoolmaster. 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 - 1900 - 252 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 snip nose, so tha.t it looked like a weather-cock perched... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1900 - 596 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,...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... | |
 | Charles Raymond Barrett - 1900 - 274 pages
...Crane, and the heroine, Katrina Van Tassel : The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow - •'...loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at the top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock,... | |
 | Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 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,...most loosely hung together. His head was small, and fiat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and long snipe nose, so that it looked like a... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1983 - 1198 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 legs, hands diat dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1991 - 100 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,...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... | |
 | H. Daniel Peck - 1992 - 166 pages
...the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodsmen and country schoolmasters. ... He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders,...shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. Crane's talent is also like Gamut's: the "singing-master of the neighborhood," his voice, with its... | |
 | David Grambs - 1995 - 420 pages
...within. WASHINGTON lRVING, The Sketch Book 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... | |
 | Catherine D. Holmes - 1996 - 236 pages
...unappeasable natural appetites: Cf. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" for physical resemblance to Ichabod Crane: "He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders,...sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and Iris whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at the top, with huge ears,... | |
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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... 
