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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 6 [ CH FLYING ...
... 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 6 [ CH FLYING ...
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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 1 The writer , in a fit of 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 1 The writer , in a fit of 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 ...
... 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 ...
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Ablington ancient ash tree 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 delight district doubtless earth England face Fairford farmers fields fish garden glorious Gloucestershire grass ground half hamlet hand hounds hundred hunting keeper larvæ look lovely Lunnon manor house may-fly miles never night Northleach old manor house old-fashioned once partridges pass Peregrine pheasant pleasant plough pounds river River Coln Roman Sairy Jane sausingers scent season seen shooting silvery song sport sportsman spring squire stand Stoke Poges stone Stow-on-the-Wold stwuns summer tell thou Tom Peregrine town trees trout stream turmut vale valley walk walls week whilst wild wind woods yards