Geographical readers for elementary schools, Bücher 3 |
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... Romans ruled , the Picts , that is the savage tribes who inhabited Scotland , were constantly breaking over the border ... Roman soldiers who manned them might keep these barbarians back . A later emperor , Hadrian , built a stone wall ...
... Romans ruled , the Picts , that is the savage tribes who inhabited Scotland , were constantly breaking over the border ... Roman soldiers who manned them might keep these barbarians back . A later emperor , Hadrian , built a stone wall ...
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... Roman wall , which ends on the shores of the Solway Frith . More interesting remains still are those of three Druid temples , which are circles formed of huge blocks of stone planted upright in the ground ; the largest of these stone ...
... Roman wall , which ends on the shores of the Solway Frith . More interesting remains still are those of three Druid temples , which are circles formed of huge blocks of stone planted upright in the ground ; the largest of these stone ...
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... Roman station , to the left , in the level of the valley ; down the vale to the north - east , you have the castle of Clitheroe , standing on its bold and abrupt eminence ; and as you wind along the eastern side of the dale , with the ...
... Roman station , to the left , in the level of the valley ; down the vale to the north - east , you have the castle of Clitheroe , standing on its bold and abrupt eminence ; and as you wind along the eastern side of the dale , with the ...
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... , through which the Ouse flows , is between forty and fifty miles wide , and is the largest vale in England . It is shut in between the Pennine Moors and the eastern moors and wolds . THE ROMAN CITY . 53 A pleasant vale it is 52 YORKSHIRE .
... , through which the Ouse flows , is between forty and fifty miles wide , and is the largest vale in England . It is shut in between the Pennine Moors and the eastern moors and wolds . THE ROMAN CITY . 53 A pleasant vale it is 52 YORKSHIRE .
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... ROMAN CITY . I CAN scarce call to mind the early days before the Romans came . Our people had a town here , but their towns were poor things - just wicker huts , with a bank of earth round to keep off other tribes , for we were always ...
... ROMAN CITY . I CAN scarce call to mind the early days before the Romans came . Our people had a town here , but their towns were poor things - just wicker huts , with a bank of earth round to keep off other tribes , for we were always ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
20 ENGLISH MILES abbey Avon banks battle beautiful Bedford Black Country border Bristol Bristol Channel built busy town called castle cathedral chalk Cheshire Chippenham church cliffs coal coal-field coast Cornwall cotton dales Dartmoor deep Derbyshire Derwent Water Devon district Durham east England Estab London estuary Exmoor famous feet Fens flat flows Forest furnace green Herefordshire hills houses important towns iron island join Kent king lace Lancashire land lies Map Questions meadows mills moorland moors mountain mouth Name three towns Norman North Downs old town orchards Ouse palace pleasant port Queen rise river rock Roman round ruins Salisbury Plain Saxon seen Severn ships shire side Staffordshire Stanford's Geog stone streams streets stretch Surrey Sussex Taunton Dean Thames things town stands trees Trent tributary Vale valley villages walls watering-place White Horse Hill Wiltshire Yorkshire
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 201 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Seite 35 - The Lord of Hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
Seite 177 - Or the unseen genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the Studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim, religious light.
Seite 205 - Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Seite 24 - And rushing and flushing and brushing and gushing, And flapping and rapping and clapping and slapping, And curling and whirling and purling and twirling, And thumping and plumping and bumping and jumping, And dashing and flashing and splashing and clashing; And so never ending, but always descending, Sounds and motions for ever and ever are blending All at once and all o'er, with a mighty uproar, — And this way the water comes down at Lodore.
Seite 19 - The rock, like something starting from a sleep, Took up the Lady's voice, and laughed again : That ancient Woman seated on Helm-crag Was ready with her cavern ; Hammar-Scar, And the tall Steep of Silver-How sent forth A noise of laughter ; southern Loughrigg heard, And Fairfield answered with a mountain tone : Helvellyn far into the clear blue sky Carried the Lady's voice, — old Skiddaw blew His speaking-trumpet; — back out of the clouds Of Glaramara southward came the voice; And Kirkstone tossed...
Seite 141 - O father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity!
Seite 24 - And gleaming and streaming and steaming and beaming, And rushing and flushing and brushing and gushing, And flapping and rapping...
Seite 77 - MARY, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home Across the sands of Dee ' ; The western wind was wild and dank with foam, And all alone went she. The western tide crept up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand, And round and round the sand, As far as eye could see. The rolling mist came down and hid the land : And never home came she. ' Oh ! is it weed, or fish, or floating hair — A tress of golden hair, A drowned...
Seite 5 - The noble Earl was slain : He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long...