 ... 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 - Página 3171820Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Stratton Duluth Brooks, Marietta Hubbard - 1905 - 460 páginas
...grass was Rikk-tikk-tikki-tikkitikk. — KIPLING: Jungle Book. Ichabod was a suitable figure for such a steed. He rode with short stirrups, which brought his knees nearly up to the pommel of his saddle ; his sharp elbows stuck out like grasshoppers' legs ; he carried his whip perpendicularly... | |
 | Mary Blanche Rossman, Mary Wilda Mills - 1905 - 136 páginas
...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... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - 1905 - 316 páginas
...out like grasshoppers'; he carried his whip perpendicularly in his hand, like a scepter, and as his horse jogged on, the motion of his arms was not unlike the napping of a pair of wings. A small wool hat rested on the top of his nose, for so his scanty strip... | |
 | Stratton Duluth Brooks - 1912 - 444 páginas
...like grasshoppers' legs ; he carried his whip perpendicularly in his hand, like a scepter, and as his horse jogged on, the motion of his arms was not unlike the napping of a pair of wings. A small wool hat rested on the top of his nose, for so his scanty strip... | |
 | Alma Blount - 1914 - 406 páginas
...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 - 304 páginas
...lurking devil in him than in any young filly in the country. Ichabod was a suitable figure for such a steed. He rode with short stirrups, which brought...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 - 442 páginas
...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 - 670 páginas
...lurking devil in him than in any young filly in the country. Ichabod was a suitable figure for such a steed. He rode with short stirrups, which brought...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 (Jr.), Fredrick Thomas Dawson - 1915 - 314 páginas
...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 - 346 páginas
...lurking devil in him than in any young filly in the country. Ichabod was a suitable figure for such a steed. He rode with short stirrups, which brought...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... | |
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