 | Washington Irving - 1853 - 270 Seiten
...genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. His school-room was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed...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... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - 1856 - 319 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. The school-house stood in a rather lonely but pleasant situation, just at the foot of a woody hill,... | |
 | 1857
...wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field." NB — The word " eloped," however, is not a. fitting one. 5. Imitatvceness is the use of words which... | |
 | A. De Puy Van Buren - 1859 - 310 Seiten
...him striding along the profile of a hill, on a wintry 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." To complete the picture, let us draw his house. " It was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1860 - 465 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...room, rudely constructed of logs ; the windows partly glared, and partly patched with leaves of old copy-books. It was most ingeniously secured at vacant... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 504 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...constructed of logs ; the windows partly glazed, and parti v patehed with leaves of old copy-books. It was most ingeniously secured at vacant hours, by... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 507 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. His school -house was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs ; the windows partly... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865
...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...constructed of logs; the windows partly glazed, and partl}" patched with leaves of old copy-books. It was most ingeniously secured at vacant hours, by... | |
 | Christian Friedrich Koch - 1865
...see) him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his cloth bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine. SK. Leg. 4) Berührung mit dem Verbalsubst, §. 99. УД. Particip. Zu den zwei einfachen Participien... | |
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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. 
