 The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. 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...  An Elementary English Grammar: With Composition - Página 294por Alma Blount, Clark Sutherland Northup - 1912 - 330 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1820 - 636 páginas
...Ichabod Crane, which cognomen, we are told, was not inapplicable to his person. ' He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms...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... | |
 | 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 páginas
...and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms...served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely put together. His head was small and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glass eyes, and a long... | |
 | 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 páginas
...and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms...served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely put together. His head was small and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glass eyes, and a long... | |
 | Mammon - 1823 - 384 páginas
...introduction, on the subject of his gait, as well as of his person and physiognomy. He is tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled out of his sleeves, feet shaped like shovels, and his whole form so loosely hung together, that it... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 páginas
...excite emotions of a ludicrous nature. It is Irving's description of Ichabod Crane. " He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms...together. ' His head was small, and flat at top, with large ears, lasge green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock perched... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 284 páginas
...and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms...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... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 páginas
...a ludicrous nature. It is Washington Irving's description of Ichabod Crane :— " He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms...together. His head was small, and flat at top, with large ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 páginas
...a ludicrous nature. It is Washington Irving'a description of Ichabod Crane : — " He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms...together. His head was small, and flat at top, with large ear*, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe noae, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1843 - 326 páginas
...excite emotions of a ludicrous nature. It is Irving's description of Ichabod Crane. " He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms...most loosely hung together. His head was small, and Mat at top. with large ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 482 páginas
...and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms...weather-cock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which v*ay the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes... | |
| |
