High up against the horizon were the huge conical masses of hill, like giant mounds intended to fortify this region of corn and grass against the keen and hungry winds of the north ; not distant enough to be clothed in purple mystery, but with sombre... New Nash's Pall Mall Magazine - Page 4181903Full view - About this book
| George Eliot - 1859 - 524 pages
...typical features of this pleasant land. High up against the horizon were the huge conical masses of hill, like giant mounds intended to fortify this region...from day to day by the changing hours, but responding with no change in themselves — left for ever grim and sullen after the flush of morning, the winged... | |
| George Eliot - 1859 - 468 pages
...typical features of this pleasant land. High up against the horizon were the huge conical masses of hill, like giant mounds intended to fortify this region...visibly specked with sheep, whose motion was only The traveler put his horse into a quick walk up the village, but when he approached the Green, the... | |
| George Eliot - 1859 - 520 pages
...typical features of this pleasant land. High up against the horizon were the huge conical masses of hill, like, giant mounds intended to fortify this region...distant enough to be clothed in purple mystery, but with sombregreenish sides visibly specked with sheep, whose motion was only revealed by memory, not detected... | |
| Mary Ann Evans - 1860 - 468 pages
...typical features of this pleasant land. High up against the horizon were the huge conical masses of hill, like giant mounds intended to fortify this region...mystery, but with sombre greenish sides visibly specked witJ1 sheep, whose motion was only revealed by memory, not detected by sight ; wooed from day to day... | |
| George Eliot - 1867 - 486 pages
...typical features of this pleasant land. High up against the horizon were the huge conical masses of hill, like giant mounds intended to fortify this region...from day to day by the changing hours, but responding with no change in themselves — left for ever grim and sullen after the flush of morning, the winged... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1881 - 428 pages
...typical features of this pleasant land. High up against the horizon were the huge conical masses of hill, like giant mounds intended to fortify this region of corn and grass agninst the keen and hungry winds of the north, not distant enough to be clothed in purple mystery,... | |
| George Eliot - 1883 - 742 pages
...typical features of this pleasant land. High up against the horizon were the huge conical masses of hill, like giant mounds intended to fortify this region...memory, not detected by sight ; wooed from day to dav by the changing hours, but responding with no change in themselves — left forever grim and sullen... | |
| George Eliot - 1886 - 498 pages
...typical features of this pleasant land. High up against the horizon were the huge conical masses of hill, like giant mounds intended to fortify this region...from day to day by the changing hours, but responding with no change in themselves — left forever grim and sullen after the flush of morning, the winged... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 464 pages
...typical features of this pleasant land. High up against the horizon were the huge conical masses of hill, like giant mounds intended to fortify this region...distant enough to be clothed in purple mystery, but with somber greenish sides visibly speckled with sheep, whose motion was only revenled by memory, not detected... | |
| William B. Cairns - 1896 - 382 pages
...features 25 of this pleasant land. High up against the horizon were the huge conical masses of hill, like giant mounds intended to fortify this region...sombre greenish sides visibly specked with sheep, whose 3° motion was only revealed by memory, not detected by sight ; wooed from day to day by the changing... | |
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