 | Isabel Moore - Readers - 1906 - 360 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... | |
 | Emogene Sanford Simons - English language - 1906 - 218 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. . . . Truth to say, he was a conscientious man, that ever bore in mind the golden maxim, "spare the... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - Readers - 1906 - 416 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. ingeniously secured at vacant hours by a withe twisted in the handle of the door, and stakes set against... | |
 | Short stories, American - 1907 - 392 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1922 - 136 pages
...a windy day, with his clothes bagging and Buttering 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... | |
 | Henry Adelbert White - English language - 1922 - 360 pages
...on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have taken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from the cornfield. As an example of contrast in a paragraph, one may cite the following discussion of the... | |
 | Isobel Davidson - Reading (Elementary) - 1925 - 512 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. window shutters, so that, though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment... | |
 | Bertrand Lyon - Oratory - 1925 - 444 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. — WASHINGTON IRVING. 2. Find a selection which violates the slogan, " Think straight and Talk to... | |
 | Novelle - 1925 - 568 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... | |
 | Effie Belle McFadden - English language - 1925 - 656 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 the cornfield. — From The Sketch Book, by WASHINGTON IRVING. In the preceding paragraph select the... | |
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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. 
