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... give what is of greater value than money , personal trouble and time in finding out their wants and in relieving them . His unvarying kindness and sympathy will never be forgotten at Ablington ; for , as one of the villagers wrote in a ...
... give what is of greater value than money , personal trouble and time in finding out their wants and in relieving them . His unvarying kindness and sympathy will never be forgotten at Ablington ; for , as one of the villagers wrote in a ...
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... give that air of peace , that charm which belongs so exclusively to the buildings of the middle ages . Knowing that the house was for the time being unoccupied , I walked boldly into the outer porch , meaning to go no further . But ...
... give that air of peace , that charm which belongs so exclusively to the buildings of the middle ages . Knowing that the house was for the time being unoccupied , I walked boldly into the outer porch , meaning to go no further . But ...
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... give place to fair Berkshire villages , and , further on , to those glorious spires and courts of Oxford ; and here shalt thou make many friends - friends who will evermore think kindly of thee , ever associate thy placid waters with ...
... give place to fair Berkshire villages , and , further on , to those glorious spires and courts of Oxford ; and here shalt thou make many friends - friends who will evermore think kindly of thee , ever associate thy placid waters with ...
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... gives it more than half its charm . But the great attraction of this country lies in its being one of the few spots now remaining on earth which have not only been made beautiful by God , but in which the hand of man has erected ...
... gives it more than half its charm . But the great attraction of this country lies in its being one of the few spots now remaining on earth which have not only been made beautiful by God , but in which the hand of man has erected ...
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... give him an ounce of " baccy " and half a crown . For some months he hangs about where he thinks you will be passing , craving a pipe of tobacco ; until one day , when you are having a talk with some other honest toiler , he will give ...
... give him an ounce of " baccy " and half a crown . For some months he hangs about where he thinks you will be passing , craving a pipe of tobacco ; until one day , when you are having a talk with some other honest toiler , he will give ...
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Ablington ancient ash tree beautiful Berkshire Bibury birds Burford BURFORD PRIORY catch Chedworth church Cirencester CIRENCESTER HOUSE Coln colour Cotswold district Cotswold Hills Cotswold village cottages covert cricket deep delightful district doubtless earth England Fairford farmers feet fields fish gallop garden glorious Gloucestershire grass ground half hamlet hand Hatherop horse hounds hundred hunting huntsman keeper killed large number larvæ Lechlade Loch Leven London look Lord lovely manor house may-fly miles never night Northleach old manor house old-fashioned once partridges passed Peregrine pheasant pleasant plough pounds ride river River Coln Roman sausingers scent season seen Shakespeare shooting silvery sport sportsman spring squire stand stone Stow-on-the-Wold stwuns tell thou town trees trout stream vale valley wall week whilst wild wind wolds woods yards