 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...  Selections from Irving's Sketch-book - Page 220by Washington Irving - 1907 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 438 pages
...feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green...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,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1820 - 636 pages
...feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small and flat at top, with huge ears, large green...his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew. ' The revenue arising from his school was small, and would have been scarcely^ sufficient to furnish... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 pages
...feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green...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,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1821 - 612 pages
...frame most loosely put together. His head was small and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glass eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like...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,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1821 - 596 pages
...frame most loosely put together. His head was small and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glass eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like...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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green...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,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1829 - 270 pages
...whole frame most loosely hung together. ' His head was small, and flat at top, with large ears, lasge green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that...hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and flattering about him, one might have mistaken him for^the genius of famine descending upon the earth,... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1830 - 346 pages
...feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small and flat at top, with huge ears, large green...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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 pages
...feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green...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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1835 - 284 pages
...and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small and flat at top, with huge cars, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked Eke a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding... | |
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