 | Joseph Gostwick - 1856 - 338 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...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 - 1857 - 478 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-Seld. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fullness of their revelry,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1860 - 478 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, nnd tree to tree,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 520 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,... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - 1864 - 444 pages
...tenderer kind, had been nipped, by the frosts, into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet. 2. Streaming files of wild ducks began to make their...might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory ; and the pensive whistle of the quail, at intervals, from the neighboring stubblefield. 3. The small... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 518 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 - 1868 - 524 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....small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In ths fulness of their revelry, they fluttered, chirping and frolicking, from bush to bush, and tree... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1875 - 98 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,... | |
 | Walter K. Fobes - 1877 - 108 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. See " Beading Club," No. 2, pp. 15, 39; No. 3, pp. 28, 97; No. 4, pp 19, 36, 92. DIDACTIC. 1. To teach... | |
 | Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1878 - 186 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....at intervals from the neighboring stubblefield. The smallJbircLs were taking their farewell banquets. In the fulness of their revelry they fluttered, chirping... | |
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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... 
