The Open AirChatto & Windus, 1885 - 270 pages |
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Page 49
... sward the driven sheep lingered on is gone . Who dares to think then ? For faces fade as flowers , and there is no consolation . So now I am sure I was right in always walking the same way by the starry flowers striving upwards on a ...
... sward the driven sheep lingered on is gone . Who dares to think then ? For faces fade as flowers , and there is no consolation . So now I am sure I was right in always walking the same way by the starry flowers striving upwards on a ...
Page 144
... sward - no creature looks so hand- some or startling , and it is always a pleasant surprise to see him . Pheasant or partridge do not surprise in the least they are no more than any other bird ; but a hare causes quite a different ...
... sward - no creature looks so hand- some or startling , and it is always a pleasant surprise to see him . Pheasant or partridge do not surprise in the least they are no more than any other bird ; but a hare causes quite a different ...
Page 171
... sward . In a meadow by the wood the oaks cast broad shadows on the short velvety sward , not so sharp and definite as those of summer , but tender , and , as it were , drawn with a loving hand . They were large shadows , though it was ...
... sward . In a meadow by the wood the oaks cast broad shadows on the short velvety sward , not so sharp and definite as those of summer , but tender , and , as it were , drawn with a loving hand . They were large shadows , though it was ...
Page 177
... sward , and having walked over the first ridge , shutting off the road behind him , is at once out of civilization . There is no noise . Wherever there are men there is a hum , even in the harvest - field ; and in the road below ...
... sward , and having walked over the first ridge , shutting off the road behind him , is at once out of civilization . There is no noise . Wherever there are men there is a hum , even in the harvest - field ; and in the road below ...
Page 224
... sward of the down is dry under foot , but hard , and does not lift the instep with the springy feel of summer . The sky is gone , it is not clouded , it is swathed in gloom . Upwards the still air thickens , and there is no arch or ...
... sward of the down is dry under foot , but hard , and does not lift the instep with the springy feel of summer . The sky is gone , it is not clouded , it is swathed in gloom . Upwards the still air thickens , and there is no arch or ...
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