 He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with...  Selections from Irving's Sketch-book - Side 220af Washington Irving - 1907 - 315 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 438 sider
...feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green...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,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1820 - 636 sider
...feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small and flat at top, with huge ears, large green...his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew. ' The revenue arising from his school was small, and would have been scarcely^ sufficient to furnish... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 sider
...feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green...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,... | |
 | 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 sider
...frame most loosely put together. 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...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,... | |
 | 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 sider
...frame most loosely put together. 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...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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 sider
...feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green...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,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 sider
...whole frame most loosely hung together. ' His head was small, and flat at top, with large ears, lasge green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that...hill on 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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1830 - 346 sider
...feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small and flat at top, with huge ears, large green...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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 sider
...feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green...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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 284 sider
...and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small and flat at top, with huge cars, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked Eke a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding... | |
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