 | Washington Irving - 1893 - 318 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 - 1894 - 234 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 - 1894 - 420 pages
...kind bad been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet. Streaming file* of wild ducks began to make their appearance high...whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubMe-field. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets In the fulne&* of their revelry,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1894 - 462 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 pen- . sive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubble field.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 482 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,... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 396 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,... | |
 | Kate Stephens, Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 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. frolicking, from bush to bush, and tree to tree, capricious from the very profusion and variety around... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1895 - 150 pages
...kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet. Streaming tiles of wild ducks began to make their appearance high...of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of <a> beech and hickory nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1896 - 416 pages
...on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped bv the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet....from the neighboring stubble-field. The small birds wore taking their farewell banquets. In the fulness of their revelry, they fluttered, chirping and... | |
 | Wells Hawks Skinner - 1897 - 282 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... 
