The Open AirChatto & Windus, 1885 - 270 páginas |
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... gone leaving nothing but black- ness . He touched it and it stained his hands like a dark powder , and then he saw that it was not perfectly black as charcoal is , it was a little red . Something was burning up the corn there just as if ...
... gone leaving nothing but black- ness . He touched it and it stained his hands like a dark powder , and then he saw that it was not perfectly black as charcoal is , it was a little red . Something was burning up the corn there just as if ...
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... gone up high into the sky again , and did not hear him . All the time Guido was descending the slope , for little feet always go down the hill as water does , and when he looked back he found that he had left the fir - trees so far ...
... gone up high into the sky again , and did not hear him . All the time Guido was descending the slope , for little feet always go down the hill as water does , and when he looked back he found that he had left the fir - trees so far ...
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... gone , like a leaf withered and lost . But we have not forgotten any of the songs they sang us , nor have the swallows that you see to - day - one of them spoke to you just now - forgotten what we said to their ancestors . Then the ...
... gone , like a leaf withered and lost . But we have not forgotten any of the songs they sang us , nor have the swallows that you see to - day - one of them spoke to you just now - forgotten what we said to their ancestors . Then the ...
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... gone , the same colours will come on the wheat that will grow then . It is thinking about those past colours , and songs , and leaves , and of the colours and the sunshine , and the songs , and the leaves that will come in the future ...
... gone , the same colours will come on the wheat that will grow then . It is thinking about those past colours , and songs , and leaves , and of the colours and the sunshine , and the songs , and the leaves that will come in the future ...
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... gone , and all the people were gone too , who had heard the blackbirds whistle in the oak the lightning struck . And those that are alive now- there will be cuckoos calling , and the eggs in the thrush's nests , and blackbirds whistling ...
... gone , and all the people were gone too , who had heard the blackbirds whistle in the oak the lightning struck . And those that are alive now- there will be cuckoos calling , and the eggs in the thrush's nests , and blackbirds whistling ...
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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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