 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1893 - 488 Seiten
...see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windv day. with his clothes lugging and fluttering about him. one might have mistaken him for the genius...descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a coru-field.'' H". frring. Crapaud, Jean, or Johnny (/.lion krA'pfi', 82). [Sometimes incorrectly written... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1893 - 318 Seiten
...not confined to the valley, but extend at times to the adjacent roads " 1 1 1 " Ichabod Crane " 115 " His school-house was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs" 119 " Spare the rod and spoil the child " 123 " Who happened to have pretty sisters " 127 " He was... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1894 - 462 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...cornfield. His school-house was a low building of on« large room, rudely constructed of logb ; the windows partly glazed, and partly patched with leaves... | |
 | Kate Stephens, Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 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. ingeniously secured at vacant hours by a withe twisted in the handle of the door, and stakes set against... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 72 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...windows partly glazed, and partly patched with leaves of copy-books. It was most ingeniously secured at vacant hours by a withe twisted in the handle of the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 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 1 This story was probably written in 1818. partly patched with leaves of copy-books. It was most ingeniously... | |
 | Wells Hawks Skinner - 1897 - 282 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. STUDIES. . I. In what points does the ludicrousness of the description consist? 2. What hyperbole in... | |
 | Northwest Territories Council of Public Instruction - 1897 - 628 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." — Irving' s "Legend of Sleepy Hollow.'1'' (a) Ask not more than four questions which should lead... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 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 of famine descending upon J,__the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. His school-house was a low building of one... | |
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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. 
