The Open AirChatto & Windus, 1885 - 270 pages |
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... blue eyes which had been wide open , as they always were when full of mischief , became softer , and his long eyelashes drooped over them . But as the magic did not begin , Guido walked on slowly into the wheat , He which rose nearly to ...
... blue eyes which had been wide open , as they always were when full of mischief , became softer , and his long eyelashes drooped over them . But as the magic did not begin , Guido walked on slowly into the wheat , He which rose nearly to ...
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... blue , not like any other blue , not like the violets in the garden , or the sky over the trees , or the geranium in the grass , or the bird's - eyes by the path . He loved them and held them tight in his hand , and went on , leaving ...
... blue , not like any other blue , not like the violets in the garden , or the sky over the trees , or the geranium in the grass , or the bird's - eyes by the path . He loved them and held them tight in his hand , and went on , leaving ...
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... blue - bells in the copse , and anemones ; till by - and - by the sun made us yellow , and the blue flowers that you have in your hand came out . I cannot tell you how many there have been of these flowers since the oak was struck by ...
... blue - bells in the copse , and anemones ; till by - and - by the sun made us yellow , and the blue flowers that you have in your hand came out . I cannot tell you how many there have been of these flowers since the oak was struck by ...
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... blue corn- flowers , a thousand years after every one of them is gone . " So that is why it is so sweet this minute , and why I want you , and your people , dear , to be happy now and to have all these things , and to agree so as not to ...
... blue corn- flowers , a thousand years after every one of them is gone . " So that is why it is so sweet this minute , and why I want you , and your people , dear , to be happy now and to have all these things , and to agree so as not to ...
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... blue air , for the air seems blue if you look up . " It is a great joy to your people , dear , when the reaping time arrives : the harvest is a great joy to you when the thistledown comes rolling along in the wind . So that I shall be ...
... blue air , for the air seems blue if you look up . " It is a great joy to your people , dear , when the reaping time arrives : the harvest is a great joy to you when the thistledown comes rolling along in the wind . So that I shall be ...
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A. B. GROSART autumn beach beautiful birds black-headed bunting blue boats boughs bright Brighton brown bushes butterfly cloth extra cloth limp colour copse corn creature Crown 8vo dark Demy 8vo earth edge Edited elms face Fcap fern field fish flowers gone grass green Guido happy heat hedge illustrated boards jogger King's Road labour ladies leaves light little Guido London look meadow morning nature nest never Novel passed pebbles pheasant PICCADILLY NOVELS pleasant plough Post 8vo rain red deer RICHARD JEFFERIES river road roof rooks round rushing seemed shadow shot side sparrows spot stalks starlings Stories stream summer sunlight sunshine swallows sward Thames thick things thought thousand tint trees Vols W. S. GILBERT walk wave wheat wild wind wings winter wood yellow yellowhammer