 He was exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable...  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 443edited by - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1810 - 874 pages
...Scbe•nocephalut, or onion head) — indeed, of such stupendous dimensions was it, that dame nature herself, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled...the top of his back bone, just between the shoulders ; where it remained, as snugly bedded, as a ship of war in the mud of the Potowmack. His body was of... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1819 - 310 pages
...grandeur.\He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was' a perfect sphere, -and of such stupendous...back bone, just between the shoulders. His body was of an oblong form, particularly capacious at bottom; which was wisely ordered by providence, seeing... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1819 - 302 pages
...grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous...back bone, just between the shoulders. His body was of an oblong form, particularly capacious at bottom; which was wisely ordered by providence, seeing... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American literature - 1819 - 476 pages
...Hchenocephalus, or onion head) — indeed, of such stupendous dimensions was it, that dame nature herself, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled...the top of his back bone, just between the shoulders ; where it remained, as snugly bedded, as a ship of war in the mud of the Potowmac. His body was of... | |
 | 1821 - 732 pages
...grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous...back bone, just between the shoulders. His body was of an oblong form, particularly capacious at bottom ; which was wisely ordered by providence, seeing... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1821 - 414 pages
...Schenoctphalus, or onion head) — indeed, of such stupendous dimensions was it, that dame Nature herself, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled...the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his back-bone, just between the shoulders ; where it remained, as snugly bedded as a ship of war in the... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1821 - 414 pages
...Schenocephalus, or onion head) — indeed, of such stupendous dimensions was it, that dame Nature herself, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled...the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his back-bone, just between the shoulders ; where it remained, as snugly bedded as a ship pf war in the... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1824 - 318 pages
...grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous...back bone, just between the shoulders. His body was of an oblongform, particularly capaciousat bottom ; which was wisely ordered by Providence, seeing... | |
 | George Lockhart - Jacobites - 1824 - 870 pages
...Scheuocephalus, or onion head) — indeed, of such stupendous dimensions was it, that dame Nature herself, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled...the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his back-bone, just between the shoulders; where it remained, as snugly bedded as a ship of war in the... | |
 | Washington Irving - American wit and humor - 1825 - 356 pages
...dame Nature herself, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have heen puzzled to construct a neck capahle of supporting it ; wherefore she wisely declined the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his hack-hone, jnst hetween the shoulders ; where it remained as snngly hedded as a ship of war in the... | |
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