The Life of the Fields, Edição 44Chatto and Windus, 1884 - 262 páginas |
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... nests under the eaves . The curved moon hung on the sky as the hunter's horn on the wall . Timid Wat - the hare - came ambling along the lane , and almost ran against two lovers in a recess of the bushes by an elm . Andrew , Andrew ...
... nests under the eaves . The curved moon hung on the sky as the hunter's horn on the wall . Timid Wat - the hare - came ambling along the lane , and almost ran against two lovers in a recess of the bushes by an elm . Andrew , Andrew ...
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... nests of happy birds . In the hawthorns blackbirds and thrushes built , often overhanging the stream , and the fledglings fluttered out into the flowery grass . Down among the stalks of the umbelliferous plants , where the grasses were ...
... nests of happy birds . In the hawthorns blackbirds and thrushes built , often overhanging the stream , and the fledglings fluttered out into the flowery grass . Down among the stalks of the umbelliferous plants , where the grasses were ...
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Richard Jefferies. hens made their nests . After the swallows had coursed long miles over the meads to and fro , they . rested on the tops of the ashes and twittered sweetly . Like the flowers and grass , the birds were drawn towards the ...
Richard Jefferies. hens made their nests . After the swallows had coursed long miles over the meads to and fro , they . rested on the tops of the ashes and twittered sweetly . Like the flowers and grass , the birds were drawn towards the ...
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... nests , and the dove cooing ; the girls that came down to dip , the children that cast their flowers to float away . The wind blew the loose apple bloom and it fell in showers of painted snow . Sweetly the greenfinches were calling in ...
... nests , and the dove cooing ; the girls that came down to dip , the children that cast their flowers to float away . The wind blew the loose apple bloom and it fell in showers of painted snow . Sweetly the greenfinches were calling in ...
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... nests on or against them . Some- thing in the odour of these umbelliferous plants , perhaps , is not quite liked ; if brushed or bruised they give out a bitter greenish scent . Under their cover , well shaded and hidden , birds build ...
... nests on or against them . Some- thing in the odour of these umbelliferous plants , perhaps , is not quite liked ; if brushed or bruised they give out a bitter greenish scent . Under their cover , well shaded and hidden , birds build ...
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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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