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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... edge of the shallow water . Sometimes fifteen or twenty or more stand in ; all sizes from the ketch to the three - master . The wind is not strong , but that peculiar drawing breeze which seems to pull a ship along as if with a tow ...
... edge of the shallow water . Sometimes fifteen or twenty or more stand in ; all sizes from the ketch to the three - master . The wind is not strong , but that peculiar drawing breeze which seems to pull a ship along as if with a tow ...
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... edge and outline ; as steel burns with a flame like wood in oxygen , so the minute particles of iron in the atmosphere seem to burn and glow in the sunbeams , and a twofold illumination fills . the air . Coming back to the place after a ...
... edge and outline ; as steel burns with a flame like wood in oxygen , so the minute particles of iron in the atmosphere seem to burn and glow in the sunbeams , and a twofold illumination fills . the air . Coming back to the place after a ...
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... edge of the plantation , where the boughs could be examined , being within reach , I found it was wasps . A yellow wasp wandered over the blue - green needles till he found a pair with a drop of liquid like dew between them . There he ...
... edge of the plantation , where the boughs could be examined , being within reach , I found it was wasps . A yellow wasp wandered over the blue - green needles till he found a pair with a drop of liquid like dew between them . There he ...
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... edge of the share , to set it , for the hard ground had bent the edge , and it did not cut properly . I said his team looked light ; they were not so heavily built as the cart - horses used in many places . No , he said , they did not ...
... edge of the share , to set it , for the hard ground had bent the edge , and it did not cut properly . I said his team looked light ; they were not so heavily built as the cart - horses used in many places . No , he said , they did not ...
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... edge of a sunny wall . There is not a place about the house where they will not build - under the eaves , on the roof , anywhere where there is a projection or shelter , deep in the thatch , under the tiles , in old eave - swallows ...
... edge of a sunny wall . There is not a place about the house where they will not build - under the eaves , on the roof , anywhere where there is a projection or shelter , deep in the thatch , under the tiles , in old eave - swallows ...
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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