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... building , with its carved pinnacles , its warped gables , its mullioned casements and dormer windows , the old oak within , the very inglenook by the great fireplace where the old folks used to sit at home , the ivy trailing round the ...
... building , with its carved pinnacles , its warped gables , its mullioned casements and dormer windows , the old oak within , the very inglenook by the great fireplace where the old folks used to sit at home , the ivy trailing round the ...
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... building , surrounded by such a wealth of stately trees as you will see nowhere else . The Thames runs practically through the grounds . What a glorious carpet of gold is spread over these meadows when the buttercups are in full bloom ...
... building , surrounded by such a wealth of stately trees as you will see nowhere else . The Thames runs practically through the grounds . What a glorious carpet of gold is spread over these meadows when the buttercups are in full bloom ...
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... buildings are their antiquity and Gothic quaintness . The air is sharp and bracing , and the climate , as is inevitable on the shallow , porous soil of the oolite hills , wonderfully dry and invigorating . " Lands of gold have been ...
... buildings are their antiquity and Gothic quaintness . The air is sharp and bracing , and the climate , as is inevitable on the shallow , porous soil of the oolite hills , wonderfully dry and invigorating . " Lands of gold have been ...
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... building in the land . In what that charm lies I have often wondered . Is it the marvellous symmetry of the whole ... build- ings as on the hills , and could believe that God had done a greater work in breathing into the narrowness of ...
... building in the land . In what that charm lies I have often wondered . Is it the marvellous symmetry of the whole ... build- ings as on the hills , and could believe that God had done a greater work in breathing into the narrowness of ...
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... buildings , but all were ivy clad and time worn . The very trees themselves appeared to be laden with a mantle of ivy that was more than they could bear . Many a tall fir , from base to topmost twig , was completely robed with the ...
... buildings , but all were ivy clad and time worn . The very trees themselves appeared to be laden with a mantle of ivy that was more than they could bear . Many a tall fir , from base to topmost twig , was completely robed with the ...
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