The Open AirChatto & Windus, 1885 - 270 pages |
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... round his brow , looked like a Nimbus or circlet of glory . So they called him St. Guido , and a very , very wild saint he was . St. Guido stopped in the cornfield , and looked all round . There were the fir - trees behind him — a thick ...
... round his brow , looked like a Nimbus or circlet of glory . So they called him St. Guido , and a very , very wild saint he was . St. Guido stopped in the cornfield , and looked all round . There were the fir - trees behind him — a thick ...
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... round his cap , which was a little higher , and was so tinted by the sun that the butterfly was inclined to settle ... round and round two stalks of wheat in a spiral , binding them together SAINT GUIDO . 3.
... round his cap , which was a little higher , and was so tinted by the sun that the butterfly was inclined to settle ... round and round two stalks of wheat in a spiral , binding them together SAINT GUIDO . 3.
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... skeletons of people who have died of hunger . They are dying now this minute in your big cities , with nothing but stones all round them , stone walls and stone streets ; not jolly stones like those you threw in the water 16 THE OPEN AIR .
... skeletons of people who have died of hunger . They are dying now this minute in your big cities , with nothing but stones all round them , stone walls and stone streets ; not jolly stones like those you threw in the water 16 THE OPEN AIR .
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... you go on teaching even the little children to follow the same silly objects , hum , hum , hum , all the day , and they will grow up to hate each other , C and to try which can get the most round things SAINT GUIDO . 17.
... you go on teaching even the little children to follow the same silly objects , hum , hum , hum , all the day , and they will grow up to hate each other , C and to try which can get the most round things SAINT GUIDO . 17.
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Richard Jefferies. and to try which can get the most round things - you have one in your pocket . " 66 Sixpence , " said Guido . " It's quite a new one . " " And other things quite as silly , " the Wheat continued . " All the time the ...
Richard Jefferies. and to try which can get the most round things - you have one in your pocket . " 66 Sixpence , " said Guido . " It's quite a new one . " " And other things quite as silly , " the Wheat continued . " All the time the ...
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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