Geographical readers for elementary schools, Bücher 3 |
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... broad , green valleys , shut in by the moors . The rivers , wide and full with the waters of many streams , leave their narrow picturesque dales , and flow through these beautiful valleys , and across the open country to the sea . These ...
... broad , green valleys , shut in by the moors . The rivers , wide and full with the waters of many streams , leave their narrow picturesque dales , and flow through these beautiful valleys , and across the open country to the sea . These ...
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... broad passage through it , from top to bottom , from roof to floor . This is called the mother - gate : gate is the north - country word for a road or way ; and this is the mother - gate because many passages are driven from it on ...
... broad passage through it , from top to bottom , from roof to floor . This is called the mother - gate : gate is the north - country word for a road or way ; and this is the mother - gate because many passages are driven from it on ...
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... Broad meadows and pasture fields are common in Lancashire ; the feeding of cattle and the making of butter and cheese are the chief kinds of farming work done in the county ; perhaps , because most of the people are at work in the mills ...
... Broad meadows and pasture fields are common in Lancashire ; the feeding of cattle and the making of butter and cheese are the chief kinds of farming work done in the county ; perhaps , because most of the people are at work in the mills ...
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... broad Mersey mouth , and on to Liverpool - the great port of the west - where ships are waiting to carry the cotton stuffs of Lancashire over the wide world , and whither others are returning with the raw cotton to make fresh supplies ...
... broad Mersey mouth , and on to Liverpool - the great port of the west - where ships are waiting to carry the cotton stuffs of Lancashire over the wide world , and whither others are returning with the raw cotton to make fresh supplies ...
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... broad sheet of calico without the cross - threads . These cross - threads are put in by the loom . The business of the loom is to lift every other thread as a darning - needle does when you are crossing a hole ; then , when the threads ...
... broad sheet of calico without the cross - threads . These cross - threads are put in by the loom . The business of the loom is to lift every other thread as a darning - needle does when you are crossing a hole ; then , when the threads ...
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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
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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...