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... cover the thin grass , and at the side of the hollow a wasp's nest had been torn out by a badger . On the soft and spreading sand thrown out from his burrow the print of his foot looked as large as an elephant might make . The wild ...
... cover the thin grass , and at the side of the hollow a wasp's nest had been torn out by a badger . On the soft and spreading sand thrown out from his burrow the print of his foot looked as large as an elephant might make . The wild ...
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... cover ; its green could be seen through the thick glass on which people stepped daily . Recently , much attention has been paid to the dust which is found on roofs and ledges at great heights . This meteoric dust , as it is called ...
... cover ; its green could be seen through the thick glass on which people stepped daily . Recently , much attention has been paid to the dust which is found on roofs and ledges at great heights . This meteoric dust , as it is called ...
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... cover a hare . Through the dank and dark - green aftermath a rabbit might suddenly come bounding , disturbed from the furrow where he had been feeding . On the sandy paths which the rabbits have made aslant up the mound , and on their ...
... cover a hare . Through the dank and dark - green aftermath a rabbit might suddenly come bounding , disturbed from the furrow where he had been feeding . On the sandy paths which the rabbits have made aslant up the mound , and on their ...
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... cover , the trees kept off the wind , the afternoon sun was warm , and thirst very natural . They had not been shooting in the cover , but had to pass through to other corn- fields . It seemed a sorry jest to ask which would be ...
... cover , the trees kept off the wind , the afternoon sun was warm , and thirst very natural . They had not been shooting in the cover , but had to pass through to other corn- fields . It seemed a sorry jest to ask which would be ...
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A. B. GROSART autumn beautiful birds black-headed bunting blue boats boughs BRET HARTE bright Brighton brown bushes butterfly CHARLES cloth extra cloth limp colour copse corn creature Crown 8vo curve dark Demy 8vo earth edge Edited elms face Fcap fern field fish flowers Frontispiece gilt golden grass green Guido Guy Waterman heart heat hedge Illus illustrated boards JAMES DE MILLE labour Lady leaves light London look Love meadow morning nature nest never Novel pass PICCADILLY NOVELS pleasant plough Poems Post 8vo rain rise river road ROBERT BUCHANAN roof rooks round rush seems shadow side song sparrows spot stalks starlings Stories stream summer sunlight sunshine swallows Thames thick things thought thousand Three Vols tint trees VERNEY LOVETT CAMERON walk wave wheat wild wind wings winter wood yellow
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