 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 454 pages
...description by representing the objects described at the moment of their greatest activity. For example: — "Hard by the farmhouse was a vast barn, that might...with the treasures of the farm ; the flail was busily 1 Josiah Royce: Some Recent Studies on Ideas of Motion. Science, [New York] Nov. 30, 1883, p. 716.... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 460 pages
...greatest activity. For example: — "Hard by the farmhouse was a vast barn, that might have •erved for a church ; every window and crevice of which seemed...with the treasures of the farm ; the flail was busily 1 Josiah Royce: Some Recent Studies on Ideas of Motion. Scianoa, [N»w York] Nov. 30, 1883, p. 716.... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 238 pages
...away through the grass, to a neighboring brook, that bubbled along among alders and dwarf willows. Hard by the farmhouse was a vast barn, that might...weather, some with their heads under their wings, or buried in their bosoms, and others swelling and cooing and bowing about their dames, were enjoying... | |
 | 1896 - 374 pages
...sparkling away through the grass to a neighboring brook that babbled along among alders and dwarf willows. Hard by the farmhouse was a vast barn that might have...weather ; some with their heads under their wings or buried in their bosoms ; and others swelling, and cooing, and bowing about their dames — were... | |
 | Wells Hawks Skinner - 1897 - 282 pages
...away through the grass, to a neighboring brook, that babbled along among alders and dwarf willows. Hard by the farm-house was a vast barn, that might...weather, some with their heads under their wings, or buried in their bosoms, and others, swelling, and cooing, and bowing about their dames, were enjoying... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 72 pages
...away through the grass, to a neigboring brook, that babbled along among the alders and dwarf willows. Hard by the farm-house was a vast barn, that might...weather, some with their heads under their wings, or buried in their bosoms, and others, swelling, and cooing, and bowing about their dames, were enjoying... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - 1897 - 644 pages
...sparkling away through the grass to a neighboring brook, that babbled along among alders and dwarf willows. Hard by the farm-house was a vast barn, that might...the weather, some with their heads under their wings or buried in their bosoms, and others swelling and cooing, and bowing about their dames, were enjoying... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 pages
...away through the grass, to a neighboring brook, that babbled along among alders and dwarf willows. Hard by the farm-house was a vast barn, that might...weather, some with their heads under their wings, or buried in their bosoms, and others, swelling, and cooing, and bowing about their dames, were enjoying... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 pages
...neighboring brook, that bubbled along among alders and dwarf willows. Hard by the farmhouse was a- vast bam, that might have served for a church ; every window...weather, some with their heads under their wings, or buried in their bosoms, and others swelling and cooing, and bowing about their dauies, were enjoying... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 pages
...among alders and dwarf willows. Hard, hy_thje Jarmr.hifflSfi_wj!fl_aLvastJ?§£P' tliafc might nave served for a church ; every window and crevice of...bursting forth with the treasures of the farm ; the Jlail was busily resounding within it from morning to night ; swallows and martins skimmed twittering... | |
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... night ; swallows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves ; and rows of pigeons, some with one eye turned up, as if watching the weather, some with their heads under their wings, or buried in their bosoms, and others swelling, and cooing, and... 
