| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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