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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. "
A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ... - Page 61
by Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 292 pages
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 2

Washington Irving - 1820 - 438 pages
...His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon...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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The Edinburgh monthly review, Volume 4

1820 - 870 pages
...His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field. His school-house was s low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs ; the windows partly...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 14; Volume 32

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1820 - 636 pages
...His head was small and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew. ' The revenue arising from his school was small, and would have been scarcely^ sufficient to furnish...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 2

Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 pages
...His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon...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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The Quarterly Review, Volume 25

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
...His head was small and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glass eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon...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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 25

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
...His head was small and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glass eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon...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...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...

Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon...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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A Practical System of Rhetoric: Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 pages
...His head was small, and flat at top, with large ears, lasge green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon...hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and flattering about him, one might have mistaken him for^the genius of famine descending upon the earth,...
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The Beauties of Washington Irving, Esq. ...

Washington Irving - 1830 - 346 pages
...His head was small and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon...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...
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The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq, Volume 2

Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 pages
...His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon...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...
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