 ... the pleasant upland on the west. Above the town the hills close in, cushioned with deep oak woods, through which juts here and there a crag of fern-fringed slate ; below they lower, and open more and more in softly-rounded knolls, and fertile squares...  Autumn Holidays of a Man of Business - Page 95by John Ashton (of Manchester.) - 1876 - 113 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Kingsley - 1855 - 608 pages
...and there a crag of fern-fringed slate ; below they lower, and open more and more in softlyrounded knolls, and fertile squares of red and green, till...expanse of hazy flats, rich salt marshes, and rolling sand hills, where Torridge jdins her sister Taw, and both together flow quietly toward the broad surges... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1855 - 320 pages
...and there a crag of fern-fringed slate ; below they lower, and open more and more in softlyrounded knolls, and fertile squares of red and green, till...expanse of hazy flats, rich salt marshes, and rolling sand hills, where Torridge joins her sister Taw, and both together flow quietly toward the broad surges... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1855 - 394 pages
...and there a crag of fern-fringed slate; below they lower, and open more and more in softly-rounded knolls, and fertile squares of red and green, till...expanse of hazy flats, rich salt marshes, and rolling sand hills, where Torridge joins her sister Taw, and both together flow quietly toward the broad surges... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1855 - 324 pages
...here and there a crag of fern-fringed slate; below they lower, and open more and more in softlyrounded knolls, and fertile squares of red and green, till...expanse of hazy flats, rich salt marshes, and rolling sand hills, where Torridge joins her sister Taw, and both together flow quietly toward the broad surges... | |
 | George Tugwell - 1857 - 300 pages
...and there a crag of fern-fringed slate ; below they lower, and open more and more in softly rounded knolls, and fertile squares of red and green, till...expanse of hazy flats, rich salt marshes, and rolling sand hills, where Torridge joins her sister Taw, and both together flow quietly toward the broad surges... | |
 | 1893 - 958 pages
...and there a crag of fernfringed slate ; below they lower, and open more and more in softly-rounded knolls and fertile squares of red and green, till...they sink into the wide expanse of hazy flats, rich salt-marshes, and rolling sand-hills, where Torridge joins her sister Taw, and both together flow quietly... | |
 | George Tugwell - 1862 - 102 pages
...and there a crag of fern fringed slate; below they lower, and open more and more in softly-rounded knolls and fertile squares of red and green, till...joins her sister Taw, and both together flow quietly toward the broad surges of the bar, and the everlasting thunder of the long Atlantic swell." OBJECTS... | |
 | 1862 - 500 pages
...and there a crag of fern-fringed slate ; below they lower, and open more and more in softly-rounded knolls, and fertile squares of red and green, till...expanse of hazy flats, rich salt marshes, and rolling sand hills, where Torridge joins her sister Taw, and both together flow quietly toward the broad surges... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - 1862 - 310 pages
...and there a crag of fern-fringed slate ; below they lower and open more and more in softly rounded knolls and fertile squares of red and green, till they sink into the expanse of hazy flats, rich salt marshes, and rolling sand hills, where Torridge joins her sister Taw,... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1864 - 232 pages
...and there a crag of fern-fringed shite ; belov they lower, and open more and more in softly-rounded knolls, and fertile squares of red and green, till...expanse of hazy flats, rich salt marshes, and rolling sand hills, where Torridge joins her sister Taw, and both together flo quietly toward the broad surges... | |
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