 | William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler - 1919 - 456 pages
...their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderers kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet....beech and hickory nuts, and the pensive whistle of 10 the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubblefield. The small birds were taking their farewell... | |
 | Francis Patrick Donnelly - 1920 - 238 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,... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck, Lura E. Runkel - 1921 - 618 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. Streaming files of wild of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory nuts, and the pensive whistle of... | |
 | William Harris Elson - 1921 - 520 pages
...briliiant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet. Streaming files of wild THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of...birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the 5 fullness of their revelry they fluttered, chirping and frolicking, from bush to bush, and tree to... | |
 | Linus Ward Kline, Gertrude L. Carey - 1922 - 366 pages
...have been playing off any of her coquettish tricks? Was her encouragement of the poor pedagogue 78 17. Streaming files of wild ducks began to make their...neighboring stubble-field. The small birds were taking their 18. Then, as he wended his way, by swamp and stream and awful woodland, to the farmhouse where he happened... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1922 - 398 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....pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighbouring stubble field. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fulness of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1922 - 136 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....ducks began to make their appearance high in the air ; th( bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory-nuts, and the pensive... | |
 | 1925 - 568 pages
...on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tender 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,... | |
 | Emma Miller Bolenius - 1926 - 648 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.... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck, Lura E. Runkel - 1921 - 616 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. Streaming files of wild 382 THE ELSON READERS— BOOK VII (7th Grade) of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech... | |
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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... 
