The Open AirChatto & Windus, 1885 - 270 pages |
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Page 56
... labour of man , to draw forth food from the deep as the plough draws it from the earth . It is in utter contrast to the artificial work - the feathers , the jewellery , the writing at desks of the town . The writings of a thousand ...
... labour of man , to draw forth food from the deep as the plough draws it from the earth . It is in utter contrast to the artificial work - the feathers , the jewellery , the writing at desks of the town . The writings of a thousand ...
Page 57
... labour makes me more comfortably lazy . They are not in a hurry , nor " chivy " over their work either ; the tides rise and fall slowly , and they work in correspondence . No infernal fidget and fuss . Wonder how long it would take me ...
... labour makes me more comfortably lazy . They are not in a hurry , nor " chivy " over their work either ; the tides rise and fall slowly , and they work in correspondence . No infernal fidget and fuss . Wonder how long it would take me ...
Page 96
... labour , the strain and perspiration , of course try the body and weaken the digestion . To distend the stomach with half a gallon of this liquor , expressly compounded to ferment , is about the most murderous thing a man could do ...
... labour , the strain and perspiration , of course try the body and weaken the digestion . To distend the stomach with half a gallon of this liquor , expressly compounded to ferment , is about the most murderous thing a man could do ...
Page 100
... labour , but the birds had preceded him hours . Before the sun was up the swallows had left their beams in the cow- shed and twittered out into the air . The rooks and wood - pigeons and doves had gone to the corn , the blackbird to the ...
... labour , but the birds had preceded him hours . Before the sun was up the swallows had left their beams in the cow- shed and twittered out into the air . The rooks and wood - pigeons and doves had gone to the corn , the blackbird to the ...
Page 105
... been dull during the day ; he had talked and joked - cumbrously in labourers ' fashion - with his fellows . His aches , his empty stomach , his labour , and the heat had not evercome the vitality of his ONE OF THE NEW VOTERS . 105.
... been dull during the day ; he had talked and joked - cumbrously in labourers ' fashion - with his fellows . His aches , his empty stomach , his labour , and the heat had not evercome the vitality of his ONE OF THE NEW VOTERS . 105.
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