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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... seen ; he would not go back , but he wished he had cut a nice stick . Just then a swallow swooped down and came flying over the wheat so close that Guido almost felt the flutter of his wings , and as he passed he whispered to Guido that ...
... seen ; he would not go back , but he wished he had cut a nice stick . Just then a swallow swooped down and came flying over the wheat so close that Guido almost felt the flutter of his wings , and as he passed he whispered to Guido that ...
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... seen the wretched beggars tramping along the road . We have known of times when there was a great pile of us , almost a hill piled up , it was not in this country , it was in another warmer country , and yet no one dared to touch it ...
... seen the wretched beggars tramping along the road . We have known of times when there was a great pile of us , almost a hill piled up , it was not in this country , it was in another warmer country , and yet no one dared to touch it ...
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... seen it ; I thought it must go into the ditch at last , but when the men came to hoe one of them knocked it back , and then another kicked it along - it was covered with earth - and then , one day , a rook came and split the clod open ...
... seen it ; I thought it must go into the ditch at last , but when the men came to hoe one of them knocked it back , and then another kicked it along - it was covered with earth - and then , one day , a rook came and split the clod open ...
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... seen it in a city of these northern climes , that is certain . Nothing in nature that I know , except the human face , ever attains this colour . Nothing like it is ever seen in the sky , either at dawn or sunset ; the dawn is often ...
... seen it in a city of these northern climes , that is certain . Nothing in nature that I know , except the human face , ever attains this colour . Nothing like it is ever seen in the sky , either at dawn or sunset ; the dawn is often ...
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... seen soon after the year has turned . In the lanes about that curious old mansion , with its windows reaching from floor to roof , that stands at the base of Wolstanbury Hill , they grow early , and ferns linger in sheltered overhung ...
... seen soon after the year has turned . In the lanes about that curious old mansion , with its windows reaching from floor to roof , that stands at the base of Wolstanbury Hill , they grow early , and ferns linger in sheltered overhung ...
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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