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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... earth is full of skeletons of people who have died of hunger . They are dying now this minute in your big cities , with nothing but stones all round them , stone walls and stone streets ; not jolly stones like those you threw in the ...
... earth is full of skeletons of people who have died of hunger . They are dying now this minute in your big cities , with nothing but stones all round them , stone walls and stone streets ; not jolly stones like those you threw in the ...
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... earth among you fairly , without spite and jealousy and avarice ; because you will not agree ; you silly , foolish people to let all the flowers wither for a thousand years while you keep each other at a distance , instead of agreeing ...
... earth among you fairly , without spite and jealousy and avarice ; because you will not agree ; you silly , foolish people to let all the flowers wither for a thousand years while you keep each other at a distance , instead of agreeing ...
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... earth - and then , one day , a rook came and split the clod open with his bill , and pushed the pieces first one side and then the other , and the coin went one way , but I did not see ; I must ask a humble - bee , or a mouse , or a ...
... earth - and then , one day , a rook came and split the clod open with his bill , and pushed the pieces first one side and then the other , and the coin went one way , but I did not see ; I must ask a humble - bee , or a mouse , or a ...
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... earth . As they passed they regarded me with bitter envy , jealousy , and hatred written in their eyes ; they cursed me in their hearts . I verily believe - so unmistakably hostile were their glances — that had opportunity been given ...
... earth . As they passed they regarded me with bitter envy , jealousy , and hatred written in their eyes ; they cursed me in their hearts . I verily believe - so unmistakably hostile were their glances — that had opportunity been given ...
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... earth . If so they chose , and without stress or strain , they could see the sunrise , they could be with him as it were unwearied and without distress - the livelong day ; they could stay on while the moon rose 28 THE OPEN AIR .
... earth . If so they chose , and without stress or strain , they could see the sunrise , they could be with him as it were unwearied and without distress - the livelong day ; they could stay on while the moon rose 28 THE OPEN AIR .
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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