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... mountains in the background , streaked with silvery stripes , the streams awakened into life by the recent downfall , the dark plantations of firs , and the still purple heathery knolls in the foreground , formed a picture which would ...
... mountains in the background , streaked with silvery stripes , the streams awakened into life by the recent downfall , the dark plantations of firs , and the still purple heathery knolls in the foreground , formed a picture which would ...
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... mountain , " Mr. Blake called it to the Deadman's Pool , so designated from the fact of a poor starved peasant , who , having been found on the bank there , dead from hunger , lay buried , in unhallowed ground , under a large flat stone ...
... mountain , " Mr. Blake called it to the Deadman's Pool , so designated from the fact of a poor starved peasant , who , having been found on the bank there , dead from hunger , lay buried , in unhallowed ground , under a large flat stone ...
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... mountain - ash around the steep rocky banks were reflected in the water ; a pair of eagles soared far above our heads , and the water - ouzel , the prettiest and most calum- niated bird that frequents the mountain stream , ever and anon ...
... mountain - ash around the steep rocky banks were reflected in the water ; a pair of eagles soared far above our heads , and the water - ouzel , the prettiest and most calum- niated bird that frequents the mountain stream , ever and anon ...
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... mountain abounded with grouse , from the fact of his seeing every covey which existed for miles around as he drove along . The dogs which were now uncoupled and en- couraged to hunt , were , as I have said , remarkable neither for ...
... mountain abounded with grouse , from the fact of his seeing every covey which existed for miles around as he drove along . The dogs which were now uncoupled and en- couraged to hunt , were , as I have said , remarkable neither for ...
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... mountains with which I am acquainted will furnish many days ' sport to that extent , and a greedy shot may destroy sport for many successive seasons . There is not sufficient heather to support a large stock , and , preserve as you may ...
... mountains with which I am acquainted will furnish many days ' sport to that extent , and a greedy shot may destroy sport for many successive seasons . There is not sufficient heather to support a large stock , and , preserve as you may ...
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Page 115 - Yet," upon the river; Some jealousy of some one's heir, Some hopes of dying broken-hearted; A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows, — and then we parted. We parted: months and years rolled by; We met again four summers after. Our parting was all sob and sigh, — Our meeting was all mirth and laughter; For, in my heart's most secret cell, There had been many other lodgers; And she was not the ball-room's belle, But only Mrs. — Something — Rogers!