 | Washington Irving - 1899 - 220 páginas
...His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large, green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. His schoolhouse was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs; the windows partly... | |
 | William Henry Wheeler - 1899 - 228 páginas
...on arriving, found himself a stranger in a strange land, far from friends. — ULYSSES S. GRANT. 7. One might have mistaken him for the genius of famine...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. —WASHINGTON IRVING. 8. Genius and its rewards are briefly told: A liberal nature and a niggard doom,... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1900 - 596 páginas
...His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green, glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field. His school-house was a low building of one large room rudely constructed of logs, the windows partly... | |
 | Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 páginas
...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, perched upon...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 - 1983 - 1198 páginas
...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...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 - 1991 - 100 páginas
...His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. His schoolhouse was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs, the windows partly... | |
 | Washington Irving, Kathryn Schultz Miller - 1994 - 52 páginas
...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 - 420 páginas
...His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon...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... | |
 | Catherine D. Holmes - 1996 - 236 páginas
...head was small, and flat at the top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon...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 - 840 páginas
...His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field. perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out: an idea most probably borrowed by 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. 
