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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... "
Select American Classics: Being Selections from Irving's Sketch Book and ... - Page 114
1896
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Irving's Sketch Book

Washington Irving - 1901 - 542 pages
...appearance high in the air ; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and 30 hickory nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail...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,...
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Composition and Rhetoric for Schools

Robert Herrick, Lindsay Todd Damon - 1902 - 442 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,...
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Composition and Rhetoric for Schools, Volume 1

Robert Herrick, Lindsay Todd Damon - 1902 - 444 pages
...kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet. Streaming flies of wild ducks began to make their appearance high...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,...
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Literature for Fifth-reader Grades ...

Sherman Williams - 1902 - 504 pages
...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...
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The Sketch Book, and Bracebridge Hall

Washington Irving - 1903 - 814 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....beech and hickory nuts, and the pensive whistle of tlie quail at intervals from the neighbouring stubble-field. The small birds were taking their farewell...
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American Stories

Edward Everett Hale - 1903 - 296 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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Literary Readings: An Introduction to the Study of Literature

Charles Madison Curry - 1903 - 572 pages
...their sober 700 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; 705 the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory nuts, and the pensive...
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A Grammar of Late Modern English, for the Use of Continental ..., Part 2

Hendrik Poutsma - 1914 - 728 pages
...Fortunatus, Ch. VIII. Wild duck generally feed during the night. Westm. Gaz., No. 5454, 17c. ii. • Streaming files of wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air. WASH. IRV., The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, (360). Many thousands of square miles would appear as moors...
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Washington Irving's Sketch Book

Washington Irving - 1905 - 460 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,...
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Comedy

Frederick Brigham De Berard - 1905 - 354 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....be heard from the groves of beech and hickory.... I 288_ nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubble field....
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