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... sight of the hill ? " Alas ! it is too true . There has been no pastime since 1857 . It would have been a splendid way of com- memorating the " diamond jubilee " if a scouring 1. ] SCOURING OF THE WHITE HORSE . 7 had FLYING WESTWARDS ...
... sight of the hill ? " Alas ! it is too true . There has been no pastime since 1857 . It would have been a splendid way of com- memorating the " diamond jubilee " if a scouring 1. ] SCOURING OF THE WHITE HORSE . 7 had FLYING WESTWARDS ...
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... sight of the old town of Chepstow and the silvery Wye , as we left them be- hind us , was fine enough ; but who can describe the magnificent panorama presented by the wide Severn at low tide ? Yellow sands , glittering like gold in the ...
... sight of the old town of Chepstow and the silvery Wye , as we left them be- hind us , was fine enough ; but who can describe the magnificent panorama presented by the wide Severn at low tide ? Yellow sands , glittering like gold in the ...
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... sight of those eighteen great hatchments which I The writer , in a fit or infantile insanity , being then aged about nine , was discovered in the very act of committing this assault on his ancestors some twenty years ago , in ...
... sight of those eighteen great hatchments which I The writer , in a fit or infantile insanity , being then aged about nine , was discovered in the very act of committing this assault on his ancestors some twenty years ago , in ...
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... sight as thou slowly passest along towards thy goal . Smiling meadows and Gloucestershire vales will soon give place to fair Berkshire villages , and , further on , to those glorious spires and courts of Oxford ; and here shalt thou ...
... sight as thou slowly passest along towards thy goal . Smiling meadows and Gloucestershire vales will soon give place to fair Berkshire villages , and , further on , to those glorious spires and courts of Oxford ; and here shalt thou ...
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... sight . Thy course once more through silent fields is laid ; but not for long ; for , Hampton Court's fair palace passed , already canst thou hear the wondrous roar of unceasing footsteps in the busy haunts of men . Courage thy goal is ...
... sight . Thy course once more through silent fields is laid ; but not for long ; for , Hampton Court's fair palace passed , already canst thou hear the wondrous roar of unceasing footsteps in the busy haunts of men . Courage thy goal is ...
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Ablington ancient ash tree barns beautiful Berkshire Bibury birds Burford BURFORD PRIORY charm Chedworth church Cirencester Coln colour Cotswold district Cotswold Hills Cotswold labourer Cotswold sheep Cotswold village cottages covert cricket deep delightful district doubtless earth England face Fairford farmers fields fish garden glorious Gloucestershire grass ground half hamlet hounds hundred hunting keeper killed land larvæ London look lovely Lunnon manor house may-fly miles never night Northleach old manor house old-fashioned once partridges passed Peregrine pheasant pleasant plough pounds quaint river River Coln Roman Sairy Jane sausingers scent season seen shillin's shooting silvery sport sportsman spring squire Stoke Poges stone Stow-on-the-Wold stwuns tell thou Tom Peregrine town trees trout stream turmut vale valley walls week whilst White Horse wild wind withybed wood yards