The Open AirChatto & Windus, 1885 - 270 páginas |
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... hill as water does , and when he looked back he found that he had left the fir - trees so far behind he was in the middle of the field . If any one had looked they could hardly have seen him , and if he had taken his cap off they could ...
... hill as water does , and when he looked back he found that he had left the fir - trees so far behind he was in the middle of the field . If any one had looked they could hardly have seen him , and if he had taken his cap off they could ...
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... hill till he came close to the copse . Some sparrows came out from the copse , and he stopped and saw one of them perch on a stalk of wheat , with one foot above the other sideways , so that he could pick at the ear and get the corn ...
... hill till he came close to the copse . Some sparrows came out from the copse , and he stopped and saw one of them perch on a stalk of wheat , with one foot above the other sideways , so that he could pick at the ear and get the corn ...
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... hill piled up , it was not in this country , it was in another warmer country , and yet no one dared to touch it - they died at the bottom of the hill of wheat . The earth is full of skeletons of people who have died of hunger . They ...
... hill piled up , it was not in this country , it was in another warmer country , and yet no one dared to touch it - they died at the bottom of the hill of wheat . The earth is full of skeletons of people who have died of hunger . They ...
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... Hill . And do you know it happened that in time every one of them was lost or sold , and your family , Guido dear , were homeless - no house , no garden or orchard , and no dogs or guns , or anything jolly . One day the papa that was ...
... Hill . And do you know it happened that in time every one of them was lost or sold , and your family , Guido dear , were homeless - no house , no garden or orchard , and no dogs or guns , or anything jolly . One day the papa that was ...
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... hill , and I paused a moment to look back . Immediately the high fir - trees guided the eye upwards , and from their tops to the deep azure of the March sky over , but a step from the tree to the heavens . So it has ever been to me , by ...
... hill , and I paused a moment to look back . Immediately the high fir - trees guided the eye upwards , and from their tops to the deep azure of the March sky over , but a step from the tree to the heavens . So it has ever been to me , by ...
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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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