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" 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. "
Hand-book of American literature, historical, biographical, and critical [by ... - Page 137
by Joseph Gostwick - 1856 - 319 pages
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The Phonetic Journal, Volume 42

1890 - 864 pages
...at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked Шее Е weather-cock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field. EEP0RTITJ SKEßEZ. BEI THOMAS A. BEBO. AT КСГВТ. (1er ar fia profejonal reporterz 1щ ar not rekweird...
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A Stem Dictionary of the English Language: For Use in Elementary Schools

John Kennedy - 1890 - 304 pages
...alternating ; reciprocal, reciprocity, reciprocate. L. reciprocus. To see him striding along the proJKe of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging...earth, or some scarecrow eloped, from a cornfield. — Irving. Look, look, through our glittering ranks afar, In the infinite azure, star after atax.—Biyant....
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A Stem Dictionary of the English Language: For Use in Elementary Schools

John Kennedy - 1890 - 314 pages
...alternating ; reciprocal, reciprocity, reciprocate. L. reciprocus. To see him striding along the pro/Me of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging...famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow etoped from a cornfield. — Irving. Look, look, through our glittering ranks afar, In the inj?reite...
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Essays from The Sketch Book, Parts 1-2

Washington Irving - 1891 - 270 pages
...His head was small, anc flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyesand a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon...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...
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Rip Van Winkle: And Other American Essays from The Sketch-book

Washington Irving - 1891 - 140 pages
...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 upon...famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow «lnn«rl from a cornfield. THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW. His schoolhouse was a low building of one...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gentn. [pseud.]

Washington Irving - 1892 - 422 pages
...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 upon...the 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...
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The Schoolmaster in Literature: Containing Selections from the Writings of ...

Hubert Marshall Skinner - 1892 - 620 pages
...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 upon...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...
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Cathcart's Literary Reader: A Manual of English Literature : Being Typical ...

George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 pages
...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 upon...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...
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...Ten Selections from the Sketch-book

Washington Irving - 1892 - 160 pages
...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 upon...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...
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Ten Selections from The Sketch-book

Washington Irving - 1892 - 242 pages
...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 upon...descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a'jcqrnfield. His schoolhouse was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs ; the...
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