 He was chubby and plump — a right jolly old elf; And I laughed, when I saw him, in spite of myself. A wink of his eye and a twist of his head Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.  Elson Grammar School Readers - Page 89by William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1911Full view - About this book
 | 1885 - 180 pages
...like roses, his nose like a cherry ! His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow ; The stump of a...wreath ; He had a broad face and a little round belly, He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old eif, And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself; A... | |
 | 1886 - 552 pages
...little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow; The stump oí a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke it...little round belly That shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly. He was chubby and plump — a right jolly old eif — And I laughed, when I saw him,... | |
 | 1886 - 590 pages
...like roses, his nose like a cherry! His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow ; The stump of a pipe he held tight la. his teeth, And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath, He had a broad face and a little... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1888 - 712 pages
...like roses, his nose like a cherry ! His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow ; The stump of a...little round belly That shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly. He was chubby and plump — a right jolly old elf — And I laughed, when I saw him,... | |
 | 1888 - 344 pages
...like roses, his nose like a cherry, His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow ; The stump of a...shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly, He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, And I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself ; A... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 564 pages
...like roses, his nose like a cherry! His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow; The stump of a...And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath; jrpWAS the night before Christmas, when all through the house He had a broad face and a little round... | |
 | Penne L. Restad - 1996 - 240 pages
...His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry; His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow, The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, . .. He had a broad face, and a little round belly That shook, when he laughed, like a bowl full of... | |
 | David Comfort - 1995 - 264 pages
...eyes—how they twinkled! His dimples, how merry! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry! He had a broad face, and a little round belly, That shook when he laugh'd, like a bowlful of jelly! —Clement C. Moore, "A Visit from St. Nicholas" ( 1 823) Physically,... | |
 | W. K. McNeil - 1995 - 212 pages
...as a cherry. His droll little mouth was drawn up in a bow: (Because he had lost his false teeth in the snow.) The stump of a pipe he held tight in his hand: And the odor was something quite hard to withstand. He had a broad face and a little round tummy;... | |
 | Sarah Jossart, Gretchen Courtney - 1996 - 144 pages
...His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry; His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow. i The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke, it encircled his head like a wreath.... | |
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