 | Leroy E. Armstrong - 1916 - 408 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....quail at intervals from the neighboring stubble-field. 37. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fullness of their revelry they fluttered,... | |
 | Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 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 - 1983 - 1198 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 fullness of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1991 - 100 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 field. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fullness of their revelry,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1998 - 840 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,... | |
 | Readpal - 2005 - 195 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 field. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fullness of their revelry,... | |
 | Schuyler T. Wallace - 2007 - 345 pages
...their sober brown and yellow, while some leaves of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet....make their appearance high in the air; the bark of a squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory nuts, and the pensive whistle of the... | |
 | Erin Detrick - 2008 - 154 pages
...abundance. The forests have put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees have been nipped by frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet. Streaming files of wild ducks high in the air; the bark of the squirrel from the groves of beech and hickory nuts, and the pensive... | |
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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... 
