 ... frame most loosely hung together. 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. To see him...  The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent - Page 340by Washington Irving - 1882 - 374 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1820 - 870 pages
...neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering a,bout him,...scarecrow eloped from a corn-field. His school-house was s low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs ; the windows partly glazed, and partly... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 pages
...neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him,...windows 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 612 pages
...neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him,...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field.' — vol. ii. p. 352. In addition to his duties as schoolmaster of the village, Mr. Crane also makes... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1821 - 596 pages
...neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him,...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field.' — vol. ii. p. 352. In addition to his duties as schoolmaster of the village, Mr. Crane also makes... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day,, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him,...windows partly glazed, and partly patched with leaves of old copy books. It was most ingeniously secured at vacant .iiours, by a withe twisted in the handle... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 pages
...a windy day, with his clothes bagging and flattering about him, one might have mistaken him for^the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield." Now there is no one, who, in reading this passage, does not admire it as a description. And any one... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1830 - 346 pages
...neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him,...descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn field. His school-room was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs ; the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 pages
...neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him,...windows 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 284 pages
...neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him,...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. His school-room was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs ; the windows partly glazed,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 194 pages
...neck, to tell which way the wind blew. 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 genins of famine descending upon the earth, or some scare-crow eloped from a corn-field. His school... | |
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