 | Northwest Territories Council of Public Instruction - 1897 - 628 pages
...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." — Irving' s "Legend of Sleepy Hollow.'1'' (a) Ask not more than four questions which should lead... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 72 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... | |
 | Literature - 1898 - 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 cornfield. His schoolhouse was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs ; the windows partly... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - Readers - 1898 - 328 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 schoolhouse was a long, low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs; the windows... | |
 | James N. Patrick - English language - 1898 - 232 pages
...To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. 1. Write a description of your teacher. 2. Write a description of the superintendent of your city,... | |
 | William Henry Wheeler - English language - 1899 - 228 pages
...stranger in a strange land, far from friends. — ULYSSES S. GRANT. 7. One might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the 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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1899 - 220 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 schoolhouse was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs; the windows partly... | |
 | William Franklin Webster - English language - 1900 - 318 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." The following is from " The House of Usher : " — " Shaking off from my spirit what must have been... | |
 | Charles Raymond Barrett - Short story - 1900 - 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 cornfield. She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen, plump as a partridge, ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked... | |
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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. 
