 | Adventure and adventurers - 1826 - 638 pages
...elegantly embellished with flowering plants and shrubs ; the laughing coolwith wings half spread were tripping over the little coves and hiding themselves in the tufts of grass; young broods of the painted summer teal, skimming the still surface of the waters, and following... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1855 - 294 pages
...elegantly embellished with flowering plants and shrubs; tlie laughing coots with wings half spread were tripping over the little coves, and hiding themselves in the tufts of gra«s; youi.g broods of the pointed fumn;cr teal, skimming the i-till surface of the waters, nnd following... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 pages
...elegantly embellished with flowering plant* and shrubs; the langhing coots with wings half spread were tripping over the little coves, and hiding themselves in the tufts of grass; young broods of the painted summer teal, skimming the still surface of the waters, and following... | |
 | American literature - 1886 - 528 pages
...elegantly embellished with flowering plants and shrubs ; the laughing coots, with wings half spread, were tripping over the little coves and hiding themselves in the tufts of grass ; young broods of the painted summer teal, skimming the still surface of the waters, and following... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 564 pages
...elegantly embellished with flowering plants and shrubs; the laughing coots with wings half spread were tripping over the little coves and hiding themselves in the tufts of grass; young broods of the painted summer teal, skimming the still surface of the waters, and following... | |
 | M. Katherine Jackson - American literature - 1906 - 210 pages
...were elegantly embellished with flowering plants and shrubs; the laughing coots with wings half spread tripping over the little coves and hiding themselves in the tufts of grass ; young broods of the painted summerteal, skimming the still surface of the waters, and following... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - Nature - 1990 - 930 pages
...elegantly embellished with flowering plants and shrubs; the laughing coots with wings half spread were tripping over the little coves, and hiding themselves in the tufts of grass; young broods of the painted summer teal, skimming the still surface of the waters, and following... | |
 | Maurice O'Sullivan, Jack Lane - Fiction - 1994 - 276 pages
...elegantly embellished with flowering plants and shrubs; the laughing coots with wings half spread were tripping over the little coves and hiding themselves in the tufts of grass; young broods of the painted summer teal, skimming the still surface of the waters, and following... | |
 | Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...elegantly embellished with flowering plants and shrubs; the laughing coots with wings half spread were tripping over the little coves and hiding themselves in the tufts of grass; young broods of the painted summer teal, skimming the still surface of the waters, and following... | |
 | Cheryll Glotfelty, Harold Fromm - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 466 pages
...elegantly embellished with flowering plants and shrubs; the laughing coots with wings half spread were tripping over the little coves, and hiding themselves in the tufts of grass; young broods of the painted summer teal, skimming the surface of the waters, and following the... | |
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The verges and islets of the lagoon were elegantly embellished with flowering plants and shrubs; the laughing coots with wings half spread were tripping over the little coves, and hiding themselves in the tufts of grass; young broods of the painted summer... 
