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" The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely... "
English: Composition and Literature - Page 70
by William Franklin Webster - 1900 - 275 pages
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Five Great Authors: Complete Characteristic Selections from the Works of ...

William Landon Felter - Readers - 1900 - 244 pages
...as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his...sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his wliolo frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large...
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Short Story Writing: A Practical Treatise on the Art of the Short Story

Charles Raymond Barrett - Short story - 1900 - 268 pages
...cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow 99 shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled...most loosely hung together. His head was small, and Sat at the top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like...
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Short Story Writing: A Practical Treatise on the Art of the Short Story

Charles Raymond Barrett - Short story - 1900 - 264 pages
...Hollow," Irving thus describes the hero ( ?), Ichabod Crane, and the heroine, Katrina Van Tassel : The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his...person. He was tall, but exceedingly. lank, with narrow 99 shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have...
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Irving's Sketch Book

Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1901 - 542 pages
...for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodsmen and country schoolmasters. 25 The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his...shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. 30 His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose,...
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Irving's Sketch Book

Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1901 - 546 pages
...for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodsmen and country schoolmasters. 25 The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his...shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. 30 His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose,...
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A Text-book on Rhetoric: Supplementing the Development of the Science with ...

Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1901 - 356 pages
...and am no more worthy to be called thy son ; make me as one of thy hired servants. 7. Ichabod Crane was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders,...loosely hung together. His head was small and flat at lop, with huge ears, large, green, glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cook...
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Essentials of English Composition

Horace Sumner Tarbell, Martha Tarbell - English language - 1902 - 308 pages
...multitudinous sea incarnadine, Making the green one red. — SHAKESPEARE. 6. Ichabod Crane was tall, exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms...shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. IRVING. 7. It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. — SYDNEY...
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Rip Van Winkle: Legend of Sleepy Hollow; The Devil and Tom Walker.--The ...

Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains (N.Y.) - 1902 - 228 pages
...for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodsmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his...exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and leg«, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his...
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Language for the Grades

John Benjamin Wisely - English language - 1903 - 246 pages
...as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his...loosely hung together. His head was small and flat at the top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock...
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Literary Readings: An Introduction to the Study of Literature

Charles Madison Curry - American literature - 1903 - 572 pages
...for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodsmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his...shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled 120 a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely...
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