The Open AirChatto & Windus, 1885 - 270 pages |
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Page 25
... elms in the corner . Even then they were in the sunshine - even in the shade , for the air carries it , or its influence , as it carries the perfumes of flowers . The heated air undulates over the field in waves which are visible at a ...
... elms in the corner . Even then they were in the sunshine - even in the shade , for the air carries it , or its influence , as it carries the perfumes of flowers . The heated air undulates over the field in waves which are visible at a ...
Page 29
... elms with the ripple of heat flowing through the shadow ; at midnight between the ripe corn and the hawthorn hedge on the white wild camomile and the poppy pale in the duskiness , with face upturned to the thoughtful heaven . Consider ...
... elms with the ripple of heat flowing through the shadow ; at midnight between the ripe corn and the hawthorn hedge on the white wild camomile and the poppy pale in the duskiness , with face upturned to the thoughtful heaven . Consider ...
Page 38
... elms where the rooks built , under whose nests there were vast unpalatable mushrooms - the true mushrooms with salmon gills grew nearer the warren ; the slope towards the nut- tree hedge and spring . Several climates in one field : the ...
... elms where the rooks built , under whose nests there were vast unpalatable mushrooms - the true mushrooms with salmon gills grew nearer the warren ; the slope towards the nut- tree hedge and spring . Several climates in one field : the ...
Page 47
... gallery of the summer - let me watch the same succession year by year . Why , I knew the very dates of them all - the red- dening elm , the arum , the hawthorn leaf , the celandine , the may ; the yellow iris of the WILD FLOWERS . 47.
... gallery of the summer - let me watch the same succession year by year . Why , I knew the very dates of them all - the red- dening elm , the arum , the hawthorn leaf , the celandine , the may ; the yellow iris of the WILD FLOWERS . 47.
Page 82
... elm - tree black with them , from the highest bough downwards , and the noise of their chattering can be heard a long distance . They roost in firs or in osier - beds . But in the blackest days of winter , when frost binds the ground ...
... elm - tree black with them , from the highest bough downwards , and the noise of their chattering can be heard a long distance . They roost in firs or in osier - beds . But in the blackest days of winter , when frost binds the ground ...
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