 | Washington Irving - 1878 - 119 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...weathercock perched upon his spindle neck to tell uo which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his... | |
 | Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1878 - 157 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...huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose,2 so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind... | |
 | C. Friedrich Koch - 1878
...if I attempted) putting asunder those who wish for a union. Golds. To see (= seeing, if one should see) him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, §. 87. with his cloth bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 218 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,... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880
...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,... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1880 - 276 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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1880
...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 gee him striding along the profile of a hill16 on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1880 - 532 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 at top, with huge ears, large green plassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon his spindle... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881
...dangled a mile out of his^leeves, 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 sec him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy da}', with his clothes bagging- and fluttering... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882
...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,... | |
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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... 
