 | Hanson Hart Webster - 1905 - 480 pages
...their sober brown find 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.... | |
 | Mary E. Doyle - 1909 - 412 pages
...appearance high in the air. The bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubble fields. The small birds fluttered, chirping and frolicking, from bush to bush, and tree to... | |
 | Sidney Grant Firman - 1910 - 336 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 fields. COMPOSITION SUBJECTS The following list of subjects may prove suggestive in the composition... | |
 | 1910 - 408 pages
...their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer 5 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. 10 The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fulness of their revelry,... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1910 - 424 pages
...sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into I5 brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet. Streaming...beech and hickory nuts, and the pensive whistle of tho quail at intervals from the neighboring stubble-field. 20 The small birds were taking their farewell... | |
 | William Patten - 1910 - 438 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.... | |
 | 1910 - 444 pages
...some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange. pnrple, and scarlet. Streaming files of wild ducks began to...squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory-nuts, and the pensive whistle of the qnail at intervals from the neighboring stubble field.... | |
 | Robert Herrick, Lindsay Todd Damon - 1911 - 592 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,... | |
 | Lillian Gertrude Kimball - 1911 - 300 pages
...ou 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. — WASHINGTON IRVING. Memorize this paragraph and then write it. 11. WRITING A DESCRIPTION... | |
 | Alice B. Macdonald - 1911 - 630 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, 2nd 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... 
