 | Education - 1866 - 538 pages
...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." Our readers will witness the Schoolmaster's last ( and best) appearance in literature in the extract... | |
 | C. F. Childs - Education - 1867 - 262 pages
...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." We have been thus minute in personal description, because it will save us many words hereafter. Much... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1869 - 264 pages
...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 corn-field. In addition to his other vocations, he was the singing-master of the neighbourhood, and picked up many... | |
 | Education - 1872 - 900 pages
...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 corn-field." But Scott, in his " Dominie Sampson," has most especially and happily delineated this physical peculiarity... | |
 | 1874 - 820 pages
...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." And Rip Van Winkle ! — what shall we say of him ? Many thousands of people have heard of him through... | |
 | Washington Irving - Avarice - 1875 - 98 pages
...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 corn-field. , His school-house was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs ; the windows partly... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might hare mistaken him for the genius of Famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. In addition to his other vocations, he was the oinging-master of the neighbourhood, and picked up many... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1874 - 454 pages
...day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genins of famine descending upon the 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... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1876 - 452 pages
...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. His school-house was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs; the windows partly... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1877 - 454 pages
...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. His school-house was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs ; the windows partly... | |
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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. 
