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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

Washington Irving - 1882 - 392 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...him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy clay, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius...
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: (From the "Sketch Book.")

Washington Irving - 1883 - 52 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 Beauties of Washington Irving ...

Washington Irving - 1884 - 472 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-room was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs ; the windows partly...
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Complete Rhetoric

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 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. ... In addition to his other vocations, he was the singing-master of the neighborhood, and picked up...
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The American Library of Art, Literature and Song, Volume 1

1885 - 544 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...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...
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Complete Rhetoric

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 pages
...of the name of Ichabod Crane, whose business is to instruct the children of his enchanted region : a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. ... In addition to his other vocations, he was the singing-master of the neighborhood, and picked up...
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Complete Rhetoric

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 368 pages
...of the name of Ichabod Crane, whose business is to instruct the children of his enchanted region : a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell...mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon fclie earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. ... In addition to his other vocations, he...
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A Text-book on Rhetoric: Supplementing the Development of the Science with ...

Brainerd Kellogg - 1888 - 286 pages
...head was small, and flat at v top, with huge ears, large, green, glassy eyes, and a long snipe v nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon...about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius qf famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. v .y ...'.. 8. Dear...
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The Phonetic Journal, Volume 42

1890 - 864 pages
...at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked Шее Е weather-cock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell...earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field. EEP0RTITJ SKEßEZ. BEI THOMAS A. BEBO. AT КСГВТ. (1er ar fia profejonal reporterz 1щ ar not rekweird...
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A Stem Dictionary of the English Language: For Use in Elementary Schools

John Kennedy - 1890 - 304 pages
...alternating ; reciprocal, reciprocity, reciprocate. L. reciprocus. To see him striding along the proJKe of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging...earth, or some scarecrow eloped, from a cornfield. — Irving. Look, look, through our glittering ranks afar, In the infinite azure, star after atax.—Biyant....
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