The Open AirChatto & Windus, 1885 - 270 pages |
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... spots came floating along the surface of the corn , and played round his cap , which was a little higher , and was so tinted by the sun that the butterfly was inclined to settle on it . Guido put up his hand to catch the butterfly ...
... spots came floating along the surface of the corn , and played round his cap , which was a little higher , and was so tinted by the sun that the butterfly was inclined to settle on it . Guido put up his hand to catch the butterfly ...
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... and white , like a very small magpie , only without such a long tail , and it had a spot of red about its neck . It was a pied woodpecker , not the large green woodpecker , but another kind . Guido saw it go 18 THE OPEN AIR .
... and white , like a very small magpie , only without such a long tail , and it had a spot of red about its neck . It was a pied woodpecker , not the large green woodpecker , but another kind . Guido saw it go 18 THE OPEN AIR .
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... spot , as it were , of the sky is still fresh - I can see it distinctly — still beautiful and full of meaning . It is painted in bright colour in my mind , colour thrice laid , and indelible ; as one passes a shrine and bows the head to ...
... spot , as it were , of the sky is still fresh - I can see it distinctly — still beautiful and full of meaning . It is painted in bright colour in my mind , colour thrice laid , and indelible ; as one passes a shrine and bows the head to ...
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... unknown and new things at every step - something always to find ; no barren spot anywhere , or sameness . Every day the grass painted anew , and its green seen for D the first time ; not the old green , but WILD FLOWERS . 33.
... unknown and new things at every step - something always to find ; no barren spot anywhere , or sameness . Every day the grass painted anew , and its green seen for D the first time ; not the old green , but WILD FLOWERS . 33.
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... spot , dry , warm - so far as soil is concerned . If you were going to live out of doors , you might safely build your kibitka where you found it . Wandering with the pictured flower - book , just pur- chased , over the windy ridge ...
... spot , dry , warm - so far as soil is concerned . If you were going to live out of doors , you might safely build your kibitka where you found it . Wandering with the pictured flower - book , just pur- chased , over the windy ridge ...
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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