The Open AirChatto & Windus, 1885 - 270 páginas |
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... walls . They were very near together , and even at the top the space between them was so narrow that the sky seemed to come down , and the clouds to be sailing but just over them , as if they would catch and tear in the fir - trees ...
... walls . They were very near together , and even at the top the space between them was so narrow that the sky seemed to come down , and the clouds to be sailing but just over them , as if they would catch and tear in the fir - trees ...
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... wall of green - hedges on the right and the left , and the wheat sloped down towards an ash - copse in the hollow . No one was in the field , only the fir - trees , the green hedges , the yellow wheat , and the sun over- head . Guido ...
... wall of green - hedges on the right and the left , and the wheat sloped down towards an ash - copse in the hollow . No one was in the field , only the fir - trees , the green hedges , the yellow wheat , and the sun over- head . Guido ...
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... wall . Next came a moth , and after the moth a golden fly , and three gnats , and a mouse ran along the dry ground with a curious sniffling rustle close to Guido . A shrill cry came . down out of the air , and looking up he saw two ...
... wall . Next came a moth , and after the moth a golden fly , and three gnats , and a mouse ran along the dry ground with a curious sniffling rustle close to Guido . A shrill cry came . down out of the air , and looking up he saw two ...
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... people who have died of hunger . They are dying now this minute in your big cities , with nothing but stones all round them , stone walls and stone streets ; not jolly stones like those you threw in the water 16 THE OPEN AIR .
... people who have died of hunger . They are dying now this minute in your big cities , with nothing but stones all round them , stone walls and stone streets ; not jolly stones like those you threw in the water 16 THE OPEN AIR .
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... wall , shuts off the sea , and has a different climate on either hand ; south by the sea - hard , harsh , flowerless , almost grassless , bitter , and cold ; on the north side , just over the hill - warm , soft , with primroses and fern ...
... wall , shuts off the sea , and has a different climate on either hand ; south by the sea - hard , harsh , flowerless , almost grassless , bitter , and cold ; on the north side , just over the hill - warm , soft , with primroses and fern ...
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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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