He was gaunt and shagged, with a ewe neck and a head like a hammer; his rusty mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burrs; one eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectral; but the other had the gleam of a genuine devil in it. American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 523publié par - 1838Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Tuley Francis Huntington - 1904 - 412 pages
...mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burrs ; one eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectral ; but the other had the gleam of a genuine devil in it. — IRVING, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Exercise 89 1. Find, in prose and poetry, other examples of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1905 - 138 pages
...mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burrs ; one eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectral, but the other had the gleam of a genuine...Gunpowder. He had, in fact, been a favorite steed of his master's, the choleric Van Ripper, who was a furious rider, and had infused, very probably, some... | |
 | Frederick Brigham De Berard - 1905 - 354 pages
...mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burrs ; one eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectral, but the other had the gleam of a genuine...Gunpowder. He had, in fact, been a favorite steed of his master's the choleric Van Ripper, who was a furious rider, and had infused, very probably, some... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - 1905 - 316 pages
...rusty mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burs; one eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectral, but the other had the gleam of a genuine...had fire and mettle in his day, if we may judge from the name he bore of Gunpowder. He had, in fact, been a favorite steed of his master's, the choleric... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1906 - 474 pages
...mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burrs; one eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectral; but the other had the gleam of a genuine...had fire and mettle in his day, if we may judge from the name he bore of Gunpowder. He had, in fact, been a favorite steed of his master's, the choleric... | |
 | Hanson Hart Webster - 1905 - 480 pages
...tangled and knotted with burs ; one eye had losl its pupil, and was glaring and spectral, but the othet had the gleam of a genuine devil in it. Still he must...had fire and mettle in his day, if we may judge from the name he bore of Gunpowder. He had, in fact, been a favorite steed of his master's, the choleric... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - 1905 - 318 pages
...mane and tail were tangled and knotted with bur*";, one eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectral, but the other had the gleam of a genuine devil in it. Still he must have had.AJ&'and mettle in his day, if we may judge from the name he bore •qHJunpowder. He had, in fact,... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - 1906 - 416 pages
...mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burrs ; one eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectral, but the other had the gleam of a genuine...had fire and mettle in his day, if we may judge from the name he bore of Gunpowder. He had, in fact, been a favorite steed of his master's, the choleric... | |
 | Joel Chandler Harris - 1907 - 374 pages
...rusty mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burs; one eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectral, but the other had the gleam of a genuine...had fire and mettle in his day, if we may judge from the name he bore of Gunpowder. He had, in fact, been a favorite steed of his master's, the choleric... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1907 - 328 pages
...mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burrs ; one eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectral ; but the other had the gleam of a genuine...it. Still he must have had fire and mettle in his 25 day, if we may judge from the name he bore of Gunpowder. He had, in fact, been a favourite steed... | |
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