The Open AirChatto & Windus, 1885 - 270 pages |
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Richard Jefferies. woodpecker , but another kind . Guido saw it go round the branch , and then some way up , and round again till it came to a place that pleased it , and then the woodpecker struck the bark with its bill , tap- tap ...
Richard Jefferies. woodpecker , but another kind . Guido saw it go round the branch , and then some way up , and round again till it came to a place that pleased it , and then the woodpecker struck the bark with its bill , tap- tap ...
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... round here , all that you can see from Acre Hill . And do you know it happened that in time every one of them was lost or sold , and your family , Guido dear , were homeless - no house , no garden or orchard , and no dogs or guns , or ...
... round here , all that you can see from Acre Hill . And do you know it happened that in time every one of them was lost or sold , and your family , Guido dear , were homeless - no house , no garden or orchard , and no dogs or guns , or ...
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... Round the spruce top the blue was deepened , concentrated by the fixed point ; the memory of that 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 ...
... Round the spruce top the blue was deepened , concentrated by the fixed point ; the memory of that 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 ...
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... round about Hurst of the Pierre- points , primroses are seen soon after the year has turned . In the lanes about that curious old mansion , with its windows reaching from floor to roof , that stands at the base of Wolstanbury Hill ...
... round about Hurst of the Pierre- points , primroses are seen soon after the year has turned . In the lanes about that curious old mansion , with its windows reaching from floor to roof , that stands at the base of Wolstanbury Hill ...
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... round about , over , and enclosing , like Aphrodite's arms ; as if the dome of the sky were a bell - flower drooping down over us , and the magical essence of it filling all the room of the earth . Sweetest of all things is wild ...
... round about , over , and enclosing , like Aphrodite's arms ; as if the dome of the sky were a bell - flower drooping down over us , and the magical essence of it filling all the room of the earth . Sweetest of all things is wild ...
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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