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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... walls . They were very near together , and even at the top the space between them was so narrow that the sky seemed to come down , and the clouds to be sailing but just over them , as if they would catch and tear in the fir - trees ...
... walls . They were very near together , and even at the top the space between them was so narrow that the sky seemed to come down , and the clouds to be sailing but just over them , as if they would catch and tear in the fir - trees ...
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... wall of green - hedges on the right and the left , and the wheat sloped down towards an ash - copse in the hollow . No one was in the field , only the fir - trees , the green hedges , the yellow wheat , and the sun over- head . Guido ...
... wall of green - hedges on the right and the left , and the wheat sloped down towards an ash - copse in the hollow . No one was in the field , only the fir - trees , the green hedges , the yellow wheat , and the sun over- head . Guido ...
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... wall . Next came a moth , and after the moth a golden fly , and three gnats , and a mouse ran along the dry ground with a curious sniffling rustle close to Guido . A shrill cry came down out of the air , and looking up he saw two swifts ...
... wall . Next came a moth , and after the moth a golden fly , and three gnats , and a mouse ran along the dry ground with a curious sniffling rustle close to Guido . A shrill cry came down out of the air , and looking up he saw two swifts ...
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... 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 water 16 THE OPEN AIR .
... 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 water 16 THE OPEN AIR .
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... wall , shuts off the sea , and has a different climate on either hand ; south by the sea - hard , harsh , flowerless , almost grassless , bitter , and cold ; on the north side , just over the hill - warm , soft , with primroses and fern ...
... wall , shuts off the sea , and has a different climate on either hand ; south by the sea - hard , harsh , flowerless , almost grassless , bitter , and cold ; on the north side , just over the hill - warm , soft , with primroses and fern ...
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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