The Life of the Fields, Edição 44Chatto and Windus, 1884 - 262 páginas |
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... gate swinging to a touch ; like water yielding to let a reed sway ; like a singing - flame rising and falling to a word , and even to an altered tone of voice . A word pushed her this way ; a word pushed her that . Always yielding ...
... gate swinging to a touch ; like water yielding to let a reed sway ; like a singing - flame rising and falling to a word , and even to an altered tone of voice . A word pushed her this way ; a word pushed her that . Always yielding ...
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... her duty . II . THE LEGEND OF A GATEWAY . A great beech tree with a white mark some way up the trunk stood in the mound by a gate which opened into a lane . Strangers coming down the lane 30 THE LIFE OF THE FIELDS . THE LEGEND OF A GATEWAY.
... her duty . II . THE LEGEND OF A GATEWAY . A great beech tree with a white mark some way up the trunk stood in the mound by a gate which opened into a lane . Strangers coming down the lane 30 THE LIFE OF THE FIELDS . THE LEGEND OF A GATEWAY.
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... gate was rather low , so that any one could lean with arms over the top bar . At one time a lady used to be very frequently seen just inside the gate , generally without a hat , for the homestead was close by . Sometimes a horse ...
... gate was rather low , so that any one could lean with arms over the top bar . At one time a lady used to be very frequently seen just inside the gate , generally without a hat , for the homestead was close by . Sometimes a horse ...
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... gate could be seen , and as that was often Luke's time she frequently sat upstairs with the window open listening for the sound of hoofs , or the well - known whistle . She saw the wood - pigeon on so many occasions that at last she ...
... gate could be seen , and as that was often Luke's time she frequently sat upstairs with the window open listening for the sound of hoofs , or the well - known whistle . She saw the wood - pigeon on so many occasions that at last she ...
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... gate , and along by the nut - tree hedge . It was very sunny and warm , and the birds sang with all their might , for there had been a shower at dawn , which always sets their hearts a - tune . At least eight or nine of them were ...
... gate , and along by the nut - tree hedge . It was very sunny and warm , and the birds sang with all their might , for there had been a shower at dawn , which always sets their hearts a - tune . At least eight or nine of them were ...
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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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