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" ... sixty or seventy yards square, of unenclosed and broken ground, over which the golden bloom of the gorse cast a rich hue, while its delicious scent perfumed the fresh and nimble air. On one side of this common, the ground sloped down to a clear bright... "
Ruth, by the author of 'Mary Barton'. - Page 103
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1853
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Ruth, and Other Tales

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - English fiction - 1882 - 498 pages
...common, the ground sloped down to a clear bright pond, in which were mirrored the rough sand-cliffs that rose abrupt on the opposite bank ; hundreds of...in their evening sport. Indeed, all sorts of birds eeemed to haunt the lonely pool ; the water-wagtails were scattered around its margin, the linnets...
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The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1906 - 870 pages
...this common the ground sloped down to a clear bright pond in which were mirrored the rough sand-cliffs that rose abrupt on the opposite bank ; hundreds of...sorts of birds seemed to haunt the lonely pool; the water-wagtails were scattered around its margin, the linnets perched on the topmost sprays of the gorse-bushes,...
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Putnam's Monthly and the Reader, Volume 1

Literature - 1907 - 922 pages
...common, the ground sloped down to a clear bright pond, in which were mirrored the rough sand-cliffs that rose abrupt on the opposite bank ; hundreds of...sorts of birds seemed to haunt the lonely pool; the waterwagtails were scattered around its margin, the linnets perched on the topmost sprays of the gorse-bushes,...
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Putnam's Monthly and the Reader, Volume 1

Literature - 1907 - 832 pages
...common, the ground sloped down to a clear bright pond, in which were mirrored the rough sand-cliffs that rose abrupt on the opposite bank; hundreds of...sorts of birds seemed to haunt the lonely pool; the waterwagtails were scattered around its margin, the linnets perched on the topmost sprays of the gorse-bushcs,...
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Blackstick Papers

Anne Thackeray Ritchie - Authors - 1908 - 310 pages
...which were mirrored the rough sand-cliffs that rose abrupt on the opposite bank ; hundreds of martins found a home there, and were now wheeling over the...sorts of birds seemed to haunt the lonely pool ; the water-wagtails were scattered around its margin, the linnets perched on the topmost sprays of the gorsebushes,...
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The Pronunciation of English: Reduced to Rules by Means of a System of Marks ...

Sir William Alexander Craigie - English language - 1917 - 60 pages
...which were mirrored the rough sand-cliffs that rose abru'pt on the opposite bank ; hundreds of martins found a home there, and were now wheeling over the...sorts of birds seemed to haunt the lonely pool ; the water-wagtails were scattered arou'nd its margin ; the linnets perched on the topmost sprays of the...
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The Works

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - English fiction - 1158 pages
...common, the ground sloped down to a clear bright pond, in which were mirrored the rough sand-cliffs that rose abrupt on the opposite bank; hundreds of...sorts of birds seemed to haunt the lonely pool ; the water-wagtails were scattered around its margin, the linnets perched on the topmost sprays of the gorse-bushes,...
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