The Open AirChatto & Windus, 1885 - 270 páginas |
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... creature no one had ever 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 ...
... creature no one had ever 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 ...
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... creatures , so that they should not hurt us , and went up into the oaks and whistled such beautiful sweet low whistles . Not in those oaks , dear , where the blackbirds whistle to - day ; even the very oaks have gone , though they were ...
... creatures , so that they should not hurt us , and went up into the oaks and whistled such beautiful sweet low whistles . Not in those oaks , dear , where the blackbirds whistle to - day ; even the very oaks have gone , though they were ...
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... creature with the heart of a woman . A butterfly with folded wings clung to a stalk of grass ; upon the under side of his wing thus exposed there were buff spots , and dark dots and streaks drawn on the finest ground of pearl - grey ...
... creature with the heart of a woman . A butterfly with folded wings clung to a stalk of grass ; upon the under side of his wing thus exposed there were buff spots , and dark dots and streaks drawn on the finest ground of pearl - grey ...
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... down into a cellar , as if to prevent its taking wing . A helpless green fly was in the midst , and round the outside galleries there crept a creature like a spider , seeming to try to hide itself . THE PINE WOOD . 77.
... down into a cellar , as if to prevent its taking wing . A helpless green fly was in the midst , and round the outside galleries there crept a creature like a spider , seeming to try to hide itself . THE PINE WOOD . 77.
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... creatures . They are easily tamed . The Parisians are fond of taming them . At a certain hour in the Tuileries . Gardens , you may see a man perfectly surrounded with a crowd of sparrows - some perching on his shoulder ; some fluttering ...
... creatures . They are easily tamed . The Parisians are fond of taming them . At a certain hour in the Tuileries . Gardens , you may see a man perfectly surrounded with a crowd of sparrows - some perching on his shoulder ; some fluttering ...
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A. B. GROSART autumn beautiful birds black-headed bunting blue boats boughs BRET HARTE bright Brighton brown bushes butterfly CHARLES cloth extra cloth limp colour copse corn creature Crown 8vo curve dark Demy 8vo earth edge Edited elms face Fcap fern field fish flowers Frontispiece gilt golden grass green Guido Guy Waterman heart heat hedge Illus illustrated boards JAMES DE MILLE labour Lady leaves light London look Love meadow morning nature nest never Novel pass PICCADILLY NOVELS pleasant plough Poems Post 8vo rain rise river road ROBERT BUCHANAN roof rooks round rush seems shadow side song sparrows spot stalks starlings Stories stream summer sunlight sunshine swallows Thames thick things thought thousand Three Vols tint trees VERNEY LOVETT CAMERON walk wave wheat wild wind wings winter wood yellow
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