 | Washington Irving - 1905
...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... | |
 | Henry Seidel Canby, John Baker Opdycke - 1913 - 593 Seiten
...Short sleeves. III. Impression. "To see him striding along ... on a windy day . . . one might mistake him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield." II. Choose five of the following subjects for description. In the case of historical characters, reference... | |
 | 1914
...striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging 10 and fluttering behind him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of...rudely constructed of logs; the windows partly glazed, 15 and partly patched with leaves of copy-books. It was most ingeniously secured at vacant hours by... | |
 | Mary Caroline Crawford - 1914 - 515 Seiten
...expressed it for him, — in Sleepy Hollow for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity. " His school-house was a low building of one large room,...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... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1914 - 391 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 corn-field. — W. IRVING. There Is a story In the Legends of Rubezahl by Musaeus, wherein a headless horseman... | |
 | 1914 - 250 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. brook running close by, and a formidable birch-tree growing at one end of it. From hence the low murmur... | |
 | Alma Blount - 1914 - 331 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 scare-crow eloped from a corn-field. . . . He rode with short stirrups, which brought his knees nearly up to the pommel of the saddle; his... | |
 | William Landon Felter, Libbie J. Eginton - 1916
...cult ex pe'ri ence guest dis pen'sa ry ex pla na'tion SEVENTH YEAR: SECOND HALF THIRTEENTH WEEK The schoolhouse was a low building of one large room rudely...partly glazed and partly patched with leaves of old copy books. It stood in a rather lonely but pleasant situation, just at the foot of a woody hill, with... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale, Fredrick Thomas Dawson - 1915 - 294 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. school-house was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs; the windows partly glazed,... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman - 1916 - 303 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... | |
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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. 
