Life in Sweden; with Excursions in Norway and Denmark, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1853 - Scandinavia |
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... snow . What an endless roll and racket of carts and carriages beneath my windows ! They unfor- tunately overlook the narrow thoroughfare to the small vessels that carry wood and provisions from the interior to the capital . And now all ...
... snow . What an endless roll and racket of carts and carriages beneath my windows ! They unfor- tunately overlook the narrow thoroughfare to the small vessels that carry wood and provisions from the interior to the capital . And now all ...
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... snow and ice ; when it is not bare . It is bad when there is no snow ; but the snow should not come before the frost ; then it will soon melt away ; the frost should come first , then the snow , and so the frost again ; then it will hold ; ...
... snow and ice ; when it is not bare . It is bad when there is no snow ; but the snow should not come before the frost ; then it will soon melt away ; the frost should come first , then the snow , and so the frost again ; then it will hold ; ...
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... snow often beats them green from the trees ; and , through the mass of green and golden foliage , the dark firs rose changeless up , towering so very high above their own beloved rocks . It was unlike the brown and yellow woods of ...
... snow often beats them green from the trees ; and , through the mass of green and golden foliage , the dark firs rose changeless up , towering so very high above their own beloved rocks . It was unlike the brown and yellow woods of ...
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... snow fallen . The terrors of a Swedish winter appeared to me quite exaggerated , and the cold of a frosty September had been much greater than that of the end of October . The heat of my rooms I found almost intolerable ; in the day ...
... snow fallen . The terrors of a Swedish winter appeared to me quite exaggerated , and the cold of a frosty September had been much greater than that of the end of October . The heat of my rooms I found almost intolerable ; in the day ...
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... snow I have seen . It really has been a strange delay . In Scotland , in Belgium , I believe even in England , snow had fallen . It was a long autumn , for the Swedes only call ice and snow winter . This sixteenth day was a miserable ...
... snow I have seen . It really has been a strange delay . In Scotland , in Belgium , I believe even in England , snow had fallen . It was a long autumn , for the Swedes only call ice and snow winter . This sixteenth day was a miserable ...
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Page 301 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 336 - For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth; so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.