 | Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 337 Seiten
...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 weather-cock,...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 - 1983 - 1126 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 glass}' eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1991 - 96 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, Kathryn Schultz Miller - 1994 - 42 Seiten
...WASHINGTON. Large, green, glassy eyes. JUDITH. And a long snipe nose that looked like a weathervane perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew. (They blow toward him as he cocks his head from side to side, admiring himself. He seems to be unknowingly... | |
 | David Grambs - 1995 - 412 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...his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew. WASHINGTON IRVING, The Sketch Book The latter, a young man of about forty, was of Gabriel's size and... | |
 | Barbara Martin Britsch, Amy Dennison-Tansey - 1995 - 175 Seiten
...dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame was loosely hung together. His head was small and flat...ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose . . . perched upon his spindle neck. To see him striding along . . . with his clothes bagging and fluttering... | |
 | Catherine D. Holmes - 1996 - 221 Seiten
...served for shovels, and Iris whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at the top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and...his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew" )23-34). 105.23-24 the thin lips of secret and ruthless ambition: recalls Flem's "tight seam of a mouth"... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1998 - 798 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,... | |
 | Laurie E. Rozakis - 1999 - 468 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...green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it might have been mistaken for a weathercock perched upon a spindle neck, to tell which way the wind... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 592 Seiten
...sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely bung together. His bead was small and flat at top, with huge ears, large green...so that it looked like a weather-cock, perched upon bis Spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill... | |
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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... 
