 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...  The Edinburgh monthly review - Page 2871820Full view - About this book
 | 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 pages
...the forests, and sends sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his...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, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1821 - 596 pages
...for the forests, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 490 pages
...for the forest, and sends • forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his...with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dan-' gled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame... | |
 | Mammon - 1823 - 384 pages
...by way of 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 pages
...the writer to excite emotions of a ludicrous nature. It is Irving's description of Ichabod Crane. " He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders,...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 pages
...as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its lemons of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 194 pages
...for the forest , and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and conntry schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his...person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shonlders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves , feet that might have... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...excite emotions of a ludicrous nature. It is Washington Irving's description of Ichabod Crane :— " He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders,...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 pages
...excite emotions of a ludicrous nature. It is Washington Irving'a description of Ichabod Crane : — " He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders,...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 pages
...the writer to excite emotions of a ludicrous nature. It is Irving's description of Ichabod Crane. " He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders,...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... | |
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