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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... dropped from an oak that grew from an acorn dropped from the oak the lightning struck . So that is three oak lives , Guido dear , back to the time I was thinking of just now . And that oak under whose shadow you are now lying is the ...
... dropped from an oak that grew from an acorn dropped from the oak the lightning struck . So that is three oak lives , Guido dear , back to the time I was thinking of just now . And that oak under whose shadow you are now lying is the ...
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... dropped out between the bricks , in the holes of thatch , and on the straws . The number of insects that frequent a large roof must be very great - all the robins , wrens , bats , and so on , can scarcely affect them ; nor the spiders ...
... dropped out between the bricks , in the holes of thatch , and on the straws . The number of insects that frequent a large roof must be very great - all the robins , wrens , bats , and so on , can scarcely affect them ; nor the spiders ...
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... dropped between the boards . There were none . They mounted the boards and sniffed round him ; they would have stolen the food from his very pocket if it had been there . Nor could they find a bundle in a handker- chief , which they ...
... dropped between the boards . There were none . They mounted the boards and sniffed round him ; they would have stolen the food from his very pocket if it had been there . Nor could they find a bundle in a handker- chief , which they ...
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... dropping its blue flowers on the dead . The sharp note of a bugle rang in the air : they were changing guard , I suppose , in Wolsey's Palace . III . In time I did discover a skiff moored in a little- visited creek , which the boatman ...
... dropping its blue flowers on the dead . The sharp note of a bugle rang in the air : they were changing guard , I suppose , in Wolsey's Palace . III . In time I did discover a skiff moored in a little- visited creek , which the boatman ...
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... dropped ripe from the tree . Where there are acorns there may be pheasants ; they may crouch in the fern and dry grey grass of the hedge thinking you do not see them , or else rush through and take wing on the opposite side . The only ...
... dropped ripe from the tree . Where there are acorns there may be pheasants ; they may crouch in the fern and dry grey grass of the hedge thinking you do not see them , or else rush through and take wing on the opposite side . The only ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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