The Open AirChatto & Windus, 1901 - 302 páginas Papers originally contributed to various English periodicals. Saint Guido.--Golden-brown.--Wild flowers.--Sunny Brighton.--The pine wood.--Nature on the roof.--One of the new voters.--The modern Thames.--The single-barrel gun.--The haunt of the hare.--The bathing season.--Under the acorns.--Downs.--Forest.--Beauty in the country.--Out of doors in February.--Haunts of the lapwing.--Outside London.--On the London road.--Red roofs of London.--A wet night in London. |
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... creature no one had ever seen ; he would not go back , but he wished he had cut a nice stick . Just then a swallow swooped down and came flying over the wheat so close that Guido almost felt the flutter of his wings , and as he passed ...
... creature no one had ever seen ; he would not go back , but he wished he had cut a nice stick . Just then a swallow swooped down and came flying over the wheat so close that Guido almost felt the flutter of his wings , and as he passed ...
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... creatures , so that they should not hurt us , and went up into the oaks and whistled such beautiful sweet low whistles . Not in those oaks , dear , where the blackbirds whistle to - day ; even the very oaks have gone , though they were ...
... creatures , so that they should not hurt us , and went up into the oaks and whistled such beautiful sweet low whistles . Not in those oaks , dear , where the blackbirds whistle to - day ; even the very oaks have gone , though they were ...
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... creature with the heart of a woman . A butterfly with folded wings clung to a stalk of grass ; upon the under side of his wing thus exposed there were buff spots , and dark dots and streaks drawn on the finest ground of pearl - grey ...
... creature with the heart of a woman . A butterfly with folded wings clung to a stalk of grass ; upon the under side of his wing thus exposed there were buff spots , and dark dots and streaks drawn on the finest ground of pearl - grey ...
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... down into a cellar , as if to prevent its taking wing . A helpless green fly was in the midst , and round the outside galleries there crept a creature like a spider , seeming to try to hide itself . THE PINE WOOD . 77.
... down into a cellar , as if to prevent its taking wing . A helpless green fly was in the midst , and round the outside galleries there crept a creature like a spider , seeming to try to hide itself . THE PINE WOOD . 77.
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... creatures . They are easily tamed . The Parisians are fond of taming them . At a certain hour in the Tuileries Gardens , you may see a man perfectly surrounded with a crowd of sparrows - some perching on his shoulder ; some fluttering ...
... creatures . They are easily tamed . The Parisians are fond of taming them . At a certain hour in the Tuileries Gardens , you may see a man perfectly surrounded with a crowd of sparrows - some perching on his shoulder ; some fluttering ...
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autumn beautiful bees birds black-headed bunting blue boats boughs bramble bright Brighton brown bushes butterfly colour comes copse corn creature curve dark earth edge elms eyot face fern field fish flowers forest gleaming gone grass gray horse green Guido happy heat hedge hills jogger King's Road labour lapwings lark leaves light little Guido London look meadow morning nature nest never newsvendors pass pebbles pheasant pleasant plough plovers rain ramsons red deer RICHARD JEFFERIES rise river road roof rooks round rush seems shadow shot side singing slope sparrows spot stalks starlings stream summer sunlight sunshine surface swallows sward Thames thick things thought thousand tint touch trees walk wall wasps watch wave West Pier wheat whistle wild wind wings winter wood yellow yellowhammer yonder