 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...  Intensive Studies in American Literature - Page 72by Alma Blount - 1914 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 438 pages
...as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his...loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1820 - 636 pages
...schoolmaster, by hirth a native of Connecticut, yclept Ichabod Crane, which cognomen, we are told, was not inapplicable to his person. ' He was tall,...loosely hung together. His head was small and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 pages
...as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his...loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - England - 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his...loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 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,...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 it looked like a weathercock... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1830 - 346 pages
...as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his...loosely hung together. His head was small and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock,... | |
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