 | Thomas Hood - 1869 - 264 Seiten
...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...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,... | |
 | Tom Hood - 1869 - 292 Seiten
...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...profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bugging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of Famine descending upon... | |
 | 1872 - 900 Seiten
...lineaments of such a personage, and in one sentence, which we quote, we have him admirably portrayed : " 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,... | |
 | 1874 - 820 Seiten
...served for shovels, and his whole frame hung loosely together. His head was small, and flat at the top, with huge ears, large, green, glassy eyes, and...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,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 Seiten
...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...hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might hare mistaken him for the genius of Famine descending upon the earth,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1875 - 98 Seiten
...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...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,... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 Seiten
...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...spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To sce him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1876 - 452 Seiten
...sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. H:s head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large...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,-... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1877 - 454 Seiten
...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...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,... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1877 - 512 Seiten
...graphic personal representative of Romeo's apothecary, as regards his lank proportions ; to see whom striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes (too big for his shrunk shank and wasted waist) bagging and fluttering about him, was like seeing the... | |
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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... 
