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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... edge with hay , the white dogs creeping from knee to knee , some such touches gave an interest to the scene . But a quarrel had begun ; the men swore , but the women did worse . It it impossible to give a hint of the language they used ...
... edge with hay , the white dogs creeping from knee to knee , some such touches gave an interest to the scene . But a quarrel had begun ; the men swore , but the women did worse . It it impossible to give a hint of the language they used ...
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... edge as it lengthens and spreads , till shadow and grass mingle together . Image after image faded from the plates , no more to be fixed than the reflection in water of the trees by the shore . Memory , like the sun , paints to me ...
... edge as it lengthens and spreads , till shadow and grass mingle together . Image after image faded from the plates , no more to be fixed than the reflection in water of the trees by the shore . Memory , like the sun , paints to me ...
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... edge of the buildings , and peers round into the broad sunlit thoroughfare ; his brown copper frock makes a distinct patch of colour at the edge of the house . There is nothing in common between him and the moving throng : he is quite ...
... edge of the buildings , and peers round into the broad sunlit thoroughfare ; his brown copper frock makes a distinct patch of colour at the edge of the house . There is nothing in common between him and the moving throng : he is quite ...
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... edge is curled or wavy , not so heavily as what is called mountainous , not in the least threatening ; this edge is white . The body of the vapour is a little darker , either because thicker , or because the light is reflected at a ...
... edge is curled or wavy , not so heavily as what is called mountainous , not in the least threatening ; this edge is white . The body of the vapour is a little darker , either because thicker , or because the light is reflected at a ...
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... edge was cut across so straight . When this peculiar bank appears at Brighton it is an almost certain sign of continued fine weather , and I have noticed the same thing elsewhere ; once particu- larly it remained fine after this ...
... edge was cut across so straight . When this peculiar bank appears at Brighton it is an almost certain sign of continued fine weather , and I have noticed the same thing elsewhere ; once particu- larly it remained fine after this ...
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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