 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
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1898 - 328 頁
...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...wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a lull on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1899 - 220 頁
...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...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. His schoolhouse was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs; the windows partly glazed,... | |
 | William Henry Wheeler - 1899 - 228 頁
...on arriving, found himself a stranger in a strange land, far from friends. — ULYSSES S. GRANT. 7. One might have mistaken him for the genius of famine...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. —WASHINGTON IRVING. 8. Genius and its rewards are briefly told: A liberal nature and a niggard doom,... | |
 | Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 頁
...and fiat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and 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. His school-house was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs; the windows partly glazed,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1983 - 1198 頁
...flat at top, with huge ears, large green glass}' eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck, to tell...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. His school house was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs; the windows partly glazed,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1991 - 100 頁
...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...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. His schoolhouse was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs, the windows partly glazed,... | |
 | Washington Irving, Kathryn Schultz Miller - 1994 - 52 頁
...WASHINGTON. Large, green, glassy eyes. JUDITH. And a long snipe nose that looked like a weathervane perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew. (They blow toward him as he cocks his head from side to side, admiring himself. He seems to be unknowingly... | |
 | David Grambs - 1995 - 420 頁
...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. WASHINGTON IRVING, The Sketch Book The latter, a young man of about forty, was of Gabriel's size and... | |
 | Catherine D. Holmes - 1996 - 236 頁
...at the 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" )23-34). 105.23-24 the thin lips of secret and ruthless ambition: recalls Flem's "tight seam of a mouth"... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1998 - 840 頁
...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...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field. perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out: an idea most probably borrowed by the... | |
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