 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1832 - 374 ページ
...every fine sunshiny day Mr. Mason was employed with young George, before the sunbeams had dissolved the frost, girdling the trees. The latter had his...skip away from the trees which he began to fell. The paroquets, in their splendid livery of green and gold, were fluttering about among the sycamores, raising... | |
 | Ohio State University, Perley Isaac Reed - 1918 - 250 ページ
...with real appreciation over every detail of this somewhat elaborate description of a pioneer field:61 "A hundred times his delight was excited by seeing...splendid livery of green and gold, were fluttering among the sycamores, raising their shrill scream, as disagreeable as their plumage is brilliant, and... | |
 | 1918 - 326 ページ
...with real appreciation over every detail of this somewhat elaborate description of a pioneer field:81 "A hundred times his delight was excited by seeing...splendid livery of green and gold, were fluttering among the sycamores, raising their shrill scream, as disagreeable as their plumage is brilliant, and... | |
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... seldom touched by such charms. If there were to be forests in the stories, he liked them exactly as they were, true to all the cardinal points of the backwoodsman's lore. For instance he might pause with real appreciation over every detail of this... 