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... summer . Upon these occasions , I am placed on my back in the scale , where I sprawl about , to the great diversion of the shopkeeper's children . These matters displease me ; but there THE REV . GILBERT WHITE . xiii.
... summer . Upon these occasions , I am placed on my back in the scale , where I sprawl about , to the great diversion of the shopkeeper's children . These matters displease me ; but there THE REV . GILBERT WHITE . xiii.
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... summer verdure , or autumnal russet , and lighted up in genial sun- shine ; for its beauty is of the joyous seasons , fitted neither to be observed by the sullen influence of a rainy day , nor torn by the rude hand of winter ...
... summer verdure , or autumnal russet , and lighted up in genial sun- shine ; for its beauty is of the joyous seasons , fitted neither to be observed by the sullen influence of a rainy day , nor torn by the rude hand of winter ...
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... summer breeze , The hum of insects and the song of birds Spoke to his heart in tones more sweet than words . Him in those quiet shades the poor might bless , Though few intruded on his loneliness ; He fed the hungry , pitied the ...
... summer breeze , The hum of insects and the song of birds Spoke to his heart in tones more sweet than words . Him in those quiet shades the poor might bless , Though few intruded on his loneliness ; He fed the hungry , pitied the ...
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... summer , and a preceding dry spring and winter , nine gallons of water in a minute , which is five hundred and forty in an hour , and twelve thousand nine hundred and wixty , or two hundred and sixteen hogsheads in twenty - four hours ...
... summer , and a preceding dry spring and winter , nine gallons of water in a minute , which is five hundred and forty in an hour , and twelve thousand nine hundred and wixty , or two hundred and sixteen hogsheads in twenty - four hours ...
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... summer evenings ; where the former sat in grave lebate , while the latter frolicked and danced before them . Long might it have stood , had not the amazing tempest in 1703 overturned it at once , to the infinite regret of the mhabitants ...
... summer evenings ; where the former sat in grave lebate , while the latter frolicked and danced before them . Long might it have stood , had not the amazing tempest in 1703 overturned it at once , to the infinite regret of the mhabitants ...
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