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... interesting particulars . There are some days during summer when the sunlight is so beautiful that every object is invested with a glamour and a charm not usually associated with it . Such a day was that of which we write . As we were ...
... interesting particulars . There are some days during summer when the sunlight is so beautiful that every object is invested with a glamour and a charm not usually associated with it . Such a day was that of which we write . As we were ...
Page 13
... interesting their architecture . One of these barns is four hundred years old . Fifty years ago , what with the wool from his sheep and the grain that was stored in these barns year by year , the Cotswold farmer was a rich man . Alas ...
... interesting their architecture . One of these barns is four hundred years old . Fifty years ago , what with the wool from his sheep and the grain that was stored in these barns year by year , the Cotswold farmer was a rich man . Alas ...
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... interesting , representing as it does the rude chiselling which hands that have long been dust in the village churchyard wrought with infinite pains . That oak roof , carved in rich tracery , resting for ages on arcades of dog - tooth ...
... interesting , representing as it does the rude chiselling which hands that have long been dust in the village churchyard wrought with infinite pains . That oak roof , carved in rich tracery , resting for ages on arcades of dog - tooth ...
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... interesting to the antiquarian as Knole , Hatfield , and other more famous mediæval houses . Some lattice windows , evidently at some time out of doors , but now on the inner walls , showed that in more recent times the house had been ...
... interesting to the antiquarian as Knole , Hatfield , and other more famous mediæval houses . Some lattice windows , evidently at some time out of doors , but now on the inner walls , showed that in more recent times the house had been ...
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... interesting and instructive thing . TO THE COLN . Flow on , clear , fresh trout stream , emblem of purity and perfect truth ; thou hast accomplished a mighty work , thou hast a mighty work to do . Who can count the millions of tons of ...
... interesting and instructive thing . TO THE COLN . Flow on , clear , fresh trout stream , emblem of purity and perfect truth ; thou hast accomplished a mighty work , thou hast a mighty work to do . Who can count the millions of tons of ...
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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