The Life of the Fields, Edição 44Chatto and Windus, 1884 - 262 páginas |
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... fish ; a character which in the country has hitherto manifested itself in the burning of ricks and farm buildings . Science is always putting fresh power into the hands of this class . In cities they have partly awakened to the power of ...
... fish ; a character which in the country has hitherto manifested itself in the burning of ricks and farm buildings . Science is always putting fresh power into the hands of this class . In cities they have partly awakened to the power of ...
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... fish in the " river , " as he called the canal . When his feet slipped and he fell in , his fishing - line somehow became twisted about his arms and legs , else most likely he would have scrambled out , as it was not very deep . This ...
... fish in the " river , " as he called the canal . When his feet slipped and he fell in , his fishing - line somehow became twisted about his arms and legs , else most likely he would have scrambled out , as it was not very deep . This ...
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... fishes dart away and hide in the green flags : they flung daisies and buttercups into the stream to float and catch awhile at the flags , and float again and pass away , like the friends of our boy- hood , out of sight . Where there was ...
... fishes dart away and hide in the green flags : they flung daisies and buttercups into the stream to float and catch awhile at the flags , and float again and pass away , like the friends of our boy- hood , out of sight . Where there was ...
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... then a robin , in one place a shrike , perhaps another is a redstart . They are fly- fishing all of them , seizing insects from the sorrel tips • and grass , as the kingfisher takes a roach 46 THE LIFE OF THE FIELDS .
... then a robin , in one place a shrike , perhaps another is a redstart . They are fly- fishing all of them , seizing insects from the sorrel tips • and grass , as the kingfisher takes a roach 46 THE LIFE OF THE FIELDS .
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... fish . Spots of cochineal and gold dust , finely mixed together , dot his sides ; they are not red nor yellow exactly , as if gold dust were mixed with some bright red . A line is drawn along his glistening greenish side , and across ...
... fish . Spots of cochineal and gold dust , finely mixed together , dot his sides ; they are not red nor yellow exactly , as if gold dust were mixed with some bright red . A line is drawn along his glistening greenish side , and across ...
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A. B. GROSART arms beautiful beech birds blackbird blue boughs BRET HARTE brook brown bushes CHARLES cloth extra cloth limp cloud colour copse corncrake cottages crake creatures Crown 8vo dark Demy 8vo distance earth edge Edited eyes Fcap field fire fish flowers Frontispiece Garden gate gilt gleam grass green Guy Waterman hawthorn hedge HENRY VAN LAUN hills hover Illus illustrated boards jack kestrel labour leaves light London look Love meadow miles nest never Notes Novels numerous Illustrations otter paper passing pheasants PICCADILLY NOVELS poacher Poems Portrait Post 8vo Pyecombe ricks rises rooks round shadow shot side sometimes sound spring Square 8vo stoats Stories stream summer sunlight sunshine surface sward things Three Vols thrushes tion trated boards trations trees trout villager visible walk wheat wild wind wings woods yellow yellowhammer
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