 | Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 pages
...valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world. A small brook glides through it, with just murmur...exploit in squirrelshooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered into it at noontime, when all nature... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Fredrick Thomas Dawson - 1915 - 314 pages
...or rather lap of land among high , hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world. ' A small brook glides through it, with just murmur...to repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail, *0 or tapping of a woodpecker, is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity.... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman - 1916 - 346 pages
...valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world. A small brook glides through it, with just murmur...exploit in squirrelshooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered into it at noon-time, when all nature... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Everett Hale, Washington Irving, Francis Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain - 1917 - 616 pages
...valley, or rather lap of land, among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world. A small brook glides through it, with just murmur...exploit in squirrel-shooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered into it at noon time, when all nature... | |
 | Sister Mary Domitilla - 1917 - 396 pages
...valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world. A small brook glides through it, with just murmur...recollect that, when a stripling, my first exploit in squirrel shooting was in a grove of tall walnut trees that shade one side of the valley. I had wandered... | |
 | Lee Emerson Bassett - 1917 - 372 pages
...valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world. A small brook glides through it, with just murmur...that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity. From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants... | |
 | Walter Scott Monroe - 1918 - 332 pages
...the principal idea of the exercise. Not far from Greensburg is a little valley, among the high hills. A small brook glides through it, with just murmur...that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity. What kind of a picture do you get from reading the above paragraph? disorder activity noise calmness... | |
 | 1918 - 424 pages
...valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world. A small brook glides through it, with just murmur...the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquility. I recollect that, when a stripling, my first exploit in squirrel-shooting was in a grove... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1919 - 512 pages
...valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world. A small brook glides through it, with just murmur...exploit in squirrelshooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered into it at noontime, when all nature... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1919 - 650 pages
...or rather lap of land, among high hills, is which is one of the quietest places in the whole world. A small brook glides through it, with just murmur...that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity. 2o I recollect that, when a stripling, my first exploit in squirrelshooting was in a grove of tall... | |
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Not far from this village, perhaps about two miles, there is a little valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world. A small brook glides through it, with just murmur enough to lull one to repose;... 
