 | H. S. Beresford-Webb - German language - 1900 - 216 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. — Washington Irving. cognomen, SBetname to tell, etc., um bie was. ..person, ftanb bem 3Wamte anjnbeuten... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1900 - 596 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... | |
 | Elias J. MacEwan - English language - 1900 - 330 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. by danger, nor stifled by ingratitude. She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience; she will... | |
 | Charles Raymond Barrett - Short story - 1900 - 274 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains (N.Y.) - 1900 - 252 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 windews partly... | |
 | William Landon Felter - Readers - 1900 - 244 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1901 - 218 pages
...a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken hhn 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1902 - 204 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... | |
 | Sherman Williams - Readers - 1902 - 504 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... | |
 | Rose Mary, Kavana, Arthur Beatty - English language - 1902 - 472 pages
...day, with his clothes bagging. and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the geniiis of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field. —WASHINGTON IRVING, The Sketch-Book. ANALYSIS OF THE MODEL 1. The paragraph structiire is the same... | |
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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. 
