 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.  The Beauties of Washington Irving - 第 146 頁Washington Irving 著 - 1835 - 270 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | 1857 - 588 頁
...his spindle neck , to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him,...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field." NB — The word " eloped," however, is not a. fitting one. 5. Imitatvceness is the use of words which... | |
 | 1857 - 588 頁
...flat at top, with large ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose; so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck , to tell...blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine... | |
 | A. De Puy Van Buren - 1859 - 336 頁
...glassy eyes, a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle-neck to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill, on a wintry day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1860 - 854 頁
...at the top, with huge ears ; large green, glassyeyes, and a long, snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck to tell...wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of :\ hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 518 頁
...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 his spindle neck, to...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 glazed,... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1865 - 462 頁
...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 his spindle neck, to tell...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field." W. Irving. Crapaud, Jean, or Johnny (zhon kra'po', 62). [Sometimes incorrectly written Crapeau.j A... | |
 | Christian Friedrich Koch - 1865 - 554 頁
...if I attempted) putting asunder those who wish for a union. Golds. To see (= seeing, if one ehould see) him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his cloth bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine. SK. Leg.... | |
 | 1866 - 538 頁
...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 his spindle neck, to...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield." Our readers will witness the Schoolmaster's last ( and best) appearance in literature in the extract... | |
 | C. F. Childs - 1867 - 262 頁
...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 his spindle neck, to tell...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield." We have been thus minute in personal description, because it will save us many words hereafter. Much... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1834 - 320 頁
...flat at top, with large ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle neck, to tell...mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon Hie earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield." Now there is no one, who, in reading this passage,... | |
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