 | William Louis Ettinger - 1922 - 248 Seiten
...about him, one might have mistaken him for some scarecrow escaped from a cornfield. His schoolroom was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed...partly glazed and partly patched with leaves of old copy books. It was secured at vacant hours by a twig twisted in the handle of the door, and stakes... | |
 | Henry Adelbert White - 1922 - 360 Seiten
...profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have taken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from the cornfield. As an example of contrast in a paragraph, one may cite the following discussion of the... | |
 | William Louis Ettinger - 1922 - 280 Seiten
...about him, one might have mistaken him for some scarecrow escaped from a cornfield. His schoolroom was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs, the windows partly glazea and partly patched with leaves of old copy books. It was secured at vacant hours by a twig twisted... | |
 | Isobel Davidson - 1925 - 512 Seiten
...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...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. window shutters, so that, though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment... | |
 | Bertrand Lyon - 1925 - 444 Seiten
...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...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. — WASHINGTON IRVING. 2. Find a selection which violates the slogan, " Think straight and Talk to... | |
 | Effie Belle McFadden - 1925 - 656 Seiten
...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...descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from the cornfield. — From The Sketch Book, by WASHINGTON IRVING. In the preceding paragraph select the... | |
 | Sister Mary Irmina - 1927 - 840 Seiten
...hiew. Tn in hawMiiilifliiatlhi imifili iif ■ liiTI mi i nimlj ilij . ■ illilih ilnllii i lisping ; about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine i the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. . 1 . The one plump feature possessed by Crane... | |
 | Emma Miller Bolenius - 1926 - 648 Seiten
...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...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. 9 His schoolhouse was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs; the windows partly... | |
 | John Harrie Beveridge, Belle M. Ryan, William Dodge Lewis - 1926 - 474 Seiten
...Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, onward through life he goes. 6. His schoolhouse was a low building, rudely constructed of logs; the windows partly glazed...and partly patched with leaves of old copy-books. 7. He heard the crowing of the cock And the barking of the farmer's dog. 8. The people crowded about... | |
 | Leroy E. Armstrong - 1916 - 408 Seiten
...him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. 9. His schoolhouse was a low building of one large room,...partly glazed, and partly patched with leaves of old copy books. It was most ingeniously secured at vacant hours by a withe twisted in the handle of the... | |
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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. 
