 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 438 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1821 - 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.' — vol. ii. p. 352. In addition to his duties as schoolmaster of the village, Mr. Crane also makes... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 612 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.' — vol. ii. p. 352. In addition to his duties as schoolmaster of the village, Mr. Crane also makes... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 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 - 1824 - 804 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. His school-house was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs ; the windows partly... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1830 - 346 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-room was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs ; the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 284 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-room was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs ; the windows partly... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 194 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 scare-crow eloped from a corn-field. His school honse was a low building of one large room , rudely constructed of logs ; the windows partly... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 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...admirably to the design of the writer. The examples which have been stated and examined, are amply sufficient to illustrate and establish the posi-tion, that... | |
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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. 
