 ... he carried his whip perpendicularly in his hand, like a sceptre, and, as his horse jogged on, the motion of his arms was not unlike the flapping of a pair of wings. A small wool hat rested on the top of his nose, for so his scanty strip of forehead...  The Edinburgh Monthly Review - Strana 2911820Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Mary Blanche Rossman, Mary Wilda Mills - 1905 - 128 str.
...is nothing between the slumberer and the naked and glad innocence of nature.— Leigh Hunt. Ichajbod rode with short stirrups, which brought his knees nearly up to the pommel of his saddle; his sharp elbows stuck out like grasshoppers'; he carried his whip perpendicularly in his... | |
 | Alma Blount - 1914 - 331 str.
...the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scare-crow eloped from a corn-field. . . . He rode with short stirrups, which brought his knees...arms was not unlike the flapping of a pair of wings. Humor may arise from the relation of events humorous in themselves, as in Irving's Legend of Sleepy... | |
 | 1914 - 250 str.
...broken-down as he looked, there was more of the lurking devil in him than in any young filly in the country. Ichabod was a suitable figure for such a steed. He...perpendicularly in his hand, like a sceptre, and as his horse jogged on, the motion of his arms was not unlike the flapping of a pair of wings. A small... | |
 | 1914
...than in any young filly in the country. Ichabod was a suitable figure for such a steed. He rode 10 with short stirrups, which brought his knees nearly...pommel of the saddle; his sharp elbows stuck out like a grasshopper's; he carried his whip perpendicularly in his hand, like a sceptre, and as the horse... | |
 | Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 635 str.
...broken-down as he looked, there was more of the lurking devil in him than in any young filly in the country. Ichabod was a suitable figure for such a steed. He...perpendicularly in his hand, like a sceptre, and as his horse jogged on, the motion of his arms was not unlike the flapping of a pair of wings. A small... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale, Fredrick Thomas Dawson - 1915 - 294 str.
...stuck out like j grasshoppers'; he carried his whip perpendicularly in his I hand, like a scepter, and as the horse jogged on, the motion of his arms was not unlike the flapping of a pair of wings, a5 A small wool hat rested on the top of his nose, for so his scanty strip of forehead might be called,... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman - 1916 - 303 str.
...down as he looked, there was more of the lurking devil in him than in any young filly in the country. Ichabod was a suitable figure for such a steed. He...carried his whip perpendicularly in his hand, like a scepter, and as the horse jogged on, the motion of his arms was not unlike the flapping of a pair of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1916 - 371 str.
...down as he looked, there was more of the lurking devil in him than in any young filly in the country. Ichabod was a suitable figure for such a steed. He...pommel of the saddle ; his sharp elbows stuck out like grass hoppers' ; he carried his whip perpendicularly in his hand like a sceptre ; and as his horse... | |
 | 1916 - 303 str.
...mettle in his day, if we may judge from his name, which was Gunpowder. Ichabod was a rider suited fcr such a steed. He rode with short stirrups, which brought...his knees nearly up to the pommel of the saddle; his elbows stuck out like a grasshopper's; and as the hcrse jogged on, the motion of his arms was not unlike... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Everett Hale, Washington Irving, Francis Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain - 1917 - 457 str.
...broken-down as he looked, there was more of the lurking devil in him than in any young filly in the country. Ichabod was a suitable figure for such a steed. He...perpendicularly in his hand, like a sceptre, and, as his horse jogged on, the motion of his arms was not unlike the flapping of a pair of wings. A small... | |
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