The Open AirChatto & Windus, 1885 - 270 pages |
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... colour they were , for his skin was so white and clear , it would not tan under the sun , yet being always out of doors it had taken the faintest tint of golden brown mixed with rosiness . His blue eyes which had been wide open , as ...
... colour they were , for his skin was so white and clear , it would not tan under the sun , yet being always out of doors it had taken the faintest tint of golden brown mixed with rosiness . His blue eyes which had been wide open , as ...
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... these were not golden but coloured like brass . His foot caught in a creeper , and he nearly tumbled - it was a bine of bindweed which went twisting round and round two stalks of wheat in a spiral , binding them together SAINT GUIDO . 3.
... these were not golden but coloured like brass . His foot caught in a creeper , and he nearly tumbled - it was a bine of bindweed which went twisting round and round two stalks of wheat in a spiral , binding them together SAINT GUIDO . 3.
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... colour as the yellow corn . stooped to see how nicely he could hide himself , then he knelt , and in a minute sat down , so that the wheat rose up high above him . He Another humble - bee went over along the tips of the wheat — burr ...
... colour as the yellow corn . stooped to see how nicely he could hide himself , then he knelt , and in a minute sat down , so that the wheat rose up high above him . He Another humble - bee went over along the tips of the wheat — burr ...
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... colour . A rough wind gives us one tint , and heavy rain another , and we look different on a cloudy day to what we do on a sunny one . All these colours changed on us when the blackbird was whistling 10 THE OPEN AIR .
... colour . A rough wind gives us one tint , and heavy rain another , and we look different on a cloudy day to what we do on a sunny one . All these colours changed on us when the blackbird was whistling 10 THE OPEN AIR .
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... 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 that makes to ...
... 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 that makes to ...
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