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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... hundreds and hundreds of years now the wheat every year has been sorrowful for your people , and I think we get more sorrowful every year about it , because as I was telling you just now the flowers go , and the swallows go , the old ...
... hundreds and hundreds of years now the wheat every year has been sorrowful for your people , and I think we get more sorrowful every year about it , because as I was telling you just now the flowers go , and the swallows go , the old ...
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... and true that nothing escaped ; and yet , although I had seen so many hundreds of each , although I had lifted armfuls day after day , still they were fresh . They never lost their newness , and even now each time I 34 THE OPEN AIR .
... and true that nothing escaped ; and yet , although I had seen so many hundreds of each , although I had lifted armfuls day after day , still they were fresh . They never lost their newness , and even now each time I 34 THE OPEN AIR .
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... hundreds of skeleton leaves had settled , a stage on their journey from the alder copse , so thick as to cover the thin grass , and at the side of the hollow a wasp's nest had been torn out by a badger . On the soft and spreading sand ...
... hundreds of skeleton leaves had settled , a stage on their journey from the alder copse , so thick as to cover the thin grass , and at the side of the hollow a wasp's nest had been torn out by a badger . On the soft and spreading sand ...
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... an odour of tar if you like , but you see it is outside intolerable civilization . It is a hundred miles from the King's Road , though but just under it . There is a scheme on foot for planking over the 58 THE OPEN AIR .
... an odour of tar if you like , but you see it is outside intolerable civilization . It is a hundred miles from the King's Road , though but just under it . There is a scheme on foot for planking over the 58 THE OPEN AIR .
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... hundred sparrows came rushing up into the hedge , suddenly filling the boughs with brown fruit ; they chirped and quarrelled in their talk , and rushed away again back to the corn as he stepped nearer . The boughs were stripped of their ...
... hundred sparrows came rushing up into the hedge , suddenly filling the boughs with brown fruit ; they chirped and quarrelled in their talk , and rushed away again back to the corn as he stepped nearer . The boughs were stripped of their ...
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