Geographical readers for elementary schools, Bücher 2 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Africa Alps Arctic Asia Atlantic Australia Baltic Bay of Biscay beautiful belongs Black Sea boats Britain British Isles busy towns called Cape carry cattle Channel China cliffs coast continent corn cotton desert dreary Duncansby Head east eastern England English English Channel estuary Europe famous farms feet Firth Firth of Clyde forests France green Gulf harbour hills houses huge India inhabitants Ireland Italy lakes land LAND HEMISPHERE Land's End large island largest LESSON lies live Loch look manufactured Mediterranean mountain chains mouth Name narrow native nearly North America North Sea northern northward numbers ocean pass peninsula plain pleasant rise rivers flow rivers which flow rock round Russia sail Saint Winifred Saxons Scotland sheep ships shores slope South Island southern ST GEORGE'S CHANNEL stands Strait streams stretches summer swarm tableland trees valleys villages Wales western whole wide winter
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 127 - As long as you are journeying in the interior of the Desert you have no particular point to make for as your resting-place. The endless sands yield nothing but small stunted...
Seite 87 - There is a glorious city in the sea; The sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing; and the salt sea-weed Clings to the marble of her palaces. No track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates! The path lies o'er the sea, Invisible: and from the land we went, As to a floating city — steering in, And gliding up her streets, as in a dream...
Seite 106 - It is difficult to say whether these fiords are the most beautiful in summer or in winter. In summer, they glitter with golden sunshine ; and purple and green shadows from the mountain and forest lie on them ; and these may be more lovely than the faint light of the winter noons of those latitudes, and the snowy pictures of frozen peaks which then show themselves on the surface : but before the day is half over, out come the stars, — the glorious stars which shine like nothing that we have ever...
Seite 128 - The world about you is all your own, and there, where you will, you pitch your solitary tent ; there is no living thing to dispute your choice. When at last the spot had been fixed upon and we came to a halt, one of the Arabs would touch the chest of my camel, and utter at the same time a peculiar gurgling sound. The beast instantly understood and obeyed the sign, and slowly sunk under me, till she brought her body to a level with the ground : then gladly enough I alighted. The rest of the camels...
Seite 106 - For days and weeks together, they reflect each separate tree-top of the pine forests which clothe the mountain sides, the mirror being broken only by the leap of some sportive fish, or the oars of the boatman, as he goes to inspect the sea-fowl from islet to islet of the fiord, or carries out his nets or his rod to catch the sea-trout, or char, or cod, or herrings, which abound, in their seasons, on the coast of Norway.
Seite 127 - I mean, in the sense of sky. You look to the sun, for he is your taskmaster, and by him you know the measure of the work that you have done, and the measure of the work that remains for you to do. He comes when you strike your tent in the early morning, and then for the first hour of the day, as you move forward on your camel, he stands at your near side, and makes you know that the whole day's toil is before you ; then for a while, and...
Seite 107 - This music of course ceases when each tree becomes laden with snow ; but yet there is sound in the midst of the longest winter night. There is the rumble of some avalanche, as, after a drifting storm, a mass of snow too heavy to keep its place slides and tumbles from the mountain peak. There is also now and then a loud crack of the ice in the nearest glacier...
Seite 107 - ... mountain peak. There is also, now and then, a loud crack of the ice in the nearest glacier; and, as many declare, there is a crackling to be heard by those who listen when the northern lights are shooting and blazing across the sky.
Seite 128 - ... measure of the work that remains for you to do ; He comes when you strike your tent in the early morning, and then, for the first hour of the day, as you move forward on your camel, he stands at your near side, and makes you know that the whole day's toil is before you — then for a while, and...