 | George Rice Carpenter - 1900 - 162 pages
...on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet....birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fulness of their revelry they fluttered, chirping and frolicking, from bush to bush and tree to tree,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1900 - 184 pages
...still Hudson. brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet....birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fulness of their revelry they fluttered, chirping and frolicking, from bush to bush and tree to tree,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1900 - 170 pages
...on their soher brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet....whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubble field. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fullness of their revelry,... | |
 | Lewis Worthington Smith, James Eames Thomas - 1900 - 332 pages
...on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple and scarlet....whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubble-fields. 6. I will tell you what the giving of knowledge is like. Suppose, now, that there were... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1900 - 252 pages
...nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet. Streaming files of wild-ducks began to make their appearance high in the air; the...birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fulness of their revelry they fluttered, chirping and frolicking, from bush to bush and tree to tree,... | |
 | William Landon Felter - 1900 - 244 pages
...on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by Ihe frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet....squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory-nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from tho neighboring stubble field.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1901 - 536 pages
...on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet....stubble-field. The small birds were taking their farewell In the fulness of their revelry and frolicking, from bush to bush and tree to tree, capricious from... | |
 | Lewis Worthington Smith, James Eames Thomas - 1901 - 436 pages
...on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple and scarlet....whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubble-fields. 4. I will tell you what the giving of knowledge is like. Suppose, now, that there were... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1901 - 546 pages
...their sober brown 25 and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet....squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and 30 hickory nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubble-field.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1901 - 218 pages
...on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet....squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory-nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubble field.... | |
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It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day ; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the... 
