Geographical readers for elementary schools, Bücher 3 |
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... perhaps , sees nothing but a grass field or a furzy common . The first thing to be done is to bore a hole deep down into the earth , with a sort of chisel at the end of an iron rod ; as the hole is not large enough for a man to follow ...
... perhaps , sees nothing but a grass field or a furzy common . The first thing to be done is to bore a hole deep down into the earth , with a sort of chisel at the end of an iron rod ; as the hole is not large enough for a man to follow ...
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... perhaps Ullswater , on the other side of Helvellyn , has a wilder beauty . Southey , another lake poet , less famous than Words- worth , had his dwelling at Keswick , the bright little town which stands on the lake . He tells us how the ...
... perhaps Ullswater , on the other side of Helvellyn , has a wilder beauty . Southey , another lake poet , less famous than Words- worth , had his dwelling at Keswick , the bright little town which stands on the lake . He tells us how the ...
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... perhaps , because most of the people are at work in the mills and cannot attend to crops . In the river valleys , however , the vales of Lune , Ribble , and Mersey , crops are raised ; wheat and oats , and capital potatoes , for which ...
... perhaps , because most of the people are at work in the mills and cannot attend to crops . In the river valleys , however , the vales of Lune , Ribble , and Mersey , crops are raised ; wheat and oats , and capital potatoes , for which ...
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... perhaps , a hundred great carding - engines in it , standing side by side . You think , perhaps , that a card is a card upon which the cotton is wound ; nothing of the kind . A card is an iron roller set all over with steel wires ...
... perhaps , a hundred great carding - engines in it , standing side by side . You think , perhaps , that a card is a card upon which the cotton is wound ; nothing of the kind . A card is an iron roller set all over with steel wires ...
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... perhaps , than if they had sense . All that the men and boys who watch them have to do is to join any one of the many thousand threads which happens to break , and this they do with a wonderfully quick twist . The cotton goes through ...
... perhaps , than if they had sense . All that the men and boys who watch them have to do is to join any one of the many thousand threads which happens to break , and this they do with a wonderfully quick twist . The cotton goes through ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abbey army Avon banks battle beautiful border broad brought building built busy called carried castle cathedral chalk Channel chief church cliffs close coal coast cotton covered cross deep Derwent Water district divides Downs east England English enter famous feet fell field flat flows Forest four give green Head Henry hills houses hundred important iron island join keep kind king land leave lies live London look Map Questions miles mills mining moors mountain mouth Name nearly never Norman once palace perhaps pleasant port Queen raised range reach rise river rock Roman round ruins Saxon seen Severn ships shire side stands stone story streams streets stretch Thames things thousand town trees Vale valley villages walls whole wide wind woods
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...