 Short of stature he was, but strongly built and athletic, Broad in the shoulders, deep-chested, with muscles and sinews of iron; Brown as a nut was his face, but his russet beard was already Flaked with patches of snow, as hedges sometimes in November.  American Shrines in England - Page 199by Alfred Thomas Story - 1908 - 348 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...mystical Arabic sentence, While underneath, in a corner, were fowling-piece, musket, and matchlock. Short of stature he was, but strongly built and athletic, Broad in the shoulders, deep-chested, with muscles and sinews of iron ; Brown as a nut was his face, but his russet beard was... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Massachusetts - 1859 - 136 pages
...mystical Arabic sentence, While underneath, in a corner, were fowling-piece, musket, and matchlock. Short of stature he was, but strongly built and athletic, Broad in the shoulders, deep-chested, with muscles and sinews of iron ; Brown as a nut was his face, but his russet beard was... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1859 - 694 pages
...have only space for two or three. The first is his limning of Miles Standish himself, on page 8 : " Short of stature, he was, but strongly built and athletic, Broad in the shoulders, deep-chested, with muscles and sinews of iron ; Brown as a nut was his face, but his russet beard was... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Gilbert - American poetry - 1860 - 448 pages
...mystical Arabic sentenee, While underneath, in a corner, were fowling-pieee, musket, and matehlock. Short of stature he wa.s, but strongly built and athletic, Broad in the shoulders, deep-chested, with museles and sinews of iron ; Brown as a nut was his faee, but his russet beard was... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 912 pages
...mystical Arabic sentence, While underneath, in a corner, were fowling-piece, musket, and matchlock. Short of stature he was, but strongly built and athletic, Broad in the shoulders, deep-chested, with muscles and sinews of iron ; Brown as a nut was his face, but his russet beard was... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863 - 484 pages
...mystical Arabic sentence, While underneath, in a corner, were fowling-piece, musket, and matchlock. Short of stature he was, but strongly built and athletic, Broad in the shoulders, deep-chested, with muscles and sinews of iron ; Brown as a nut was his face, but his russet beard was... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 pages
...mystical Arabic sentence, While underneath, in a corner, were fowling-piece, musket, and matchlock. Short of stature he was, but strongly built and athletic, Broad in the shoulders, deep-chested, with muscles and sinews of iron ; Brown as a nut was his face, but his russet beard was... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 488 pages
...mystical Arabic sentence, While underneath, in a corner, were fowling-piece, musket, and matchlock. Short of stature he was, but strongly built and athletic, Broad in the shoulders, deep-chested, with muscles and sinews of iron ; Brown as a nut was his face, but his russet beard was... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1865 - 388 pages
...matchlock. Short of stature he was, hut strongly huilt and athletic, Broad in the shoulders, deep-chested, with muscles and sinews of iron ; Brown as a nut was his face, hut his russet heard was already Flaked with patches of snow, as hedges sometimes in Novemher. Near... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Poetry - 1866 - 300 pages
...mystical Arabic sentence, While underneath, in a corner, were fowlingpiece, musket, and matchlock. Short of stature he was, but strongly built and athletic, Broad in the shoulders, deep-chested, with muscles and sinews of iron; Brown as a nut was his face, but his russet beard was... | |
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