| Mary Ann Evans - 1866 - 352 pages
...elder-trees, its untidy kitchen-garden and coneshaped yew-tree arbour. But everywhere the bushy hedgerows wasted the land with their straggling beauty, shrouded...those hedgerows, the liberal" homes of unmarketable beauty—of the purple-blossomed rubyberried nightshade, of the wild convolvulus climbing and spreading... | |
| George Eliot - Elections - 1866 - 538 pages
...elder-trees, its untidy kitchen-garden and cone-sbaped yew-tree arbor. But every where the bushy hedgerows wasted the land with their straggling beauty, shrouded...Perhaps they were white with May, or starred with pale-pink dog-roses ; perhaps the urchins were already nutting among them, or gattjpring the plenteous... | |
| George Eliot - Domestic fiction - 1866 - 200 pages
...kitehen1 garden and cone-shaped yew-tree arbor. But . every where the bushy hedgerows wasted the land I with their straggling beauty, shrouded the grassy...Perhaps they were white with May, or starred with pale-pink dog-roses ; perhaps the urchins were already nutting among them, or gathering the plenteous... | |
| George Eliot - 1867 - 446 pages
...elder-trees, its untidy kitchen-garden and cone-shaped yew-tree arbour. But everywhere the bushy hedgerows wasted the land with their straggling beauty, shrouded...hedgerows, the liberal homes of unmarketable beauty — of tho purple-blossomed ruby-berried nightshade, of the wild convolvulus climbing and spreading in tendrilled... | |
| William Stewart Ross - 1869 - 452 pages
...elder-trees, ita untidy kitchen garden, and cone-shaped yew-tree arbour. But everywhere the bushy hedge-rows wasted the land with their straggling beauty, shrouded...the liberal homes of unmarketable beauty — of the purple - blossomed ruby-berried nightshade, of the wild convolvulus climbing and spreading in tendrilled... | |
| Henry H. Lancaster - English literature - 1876 - 510 pages
...wasted the land with their straggling beauty, shrouded the grassy borders of the pastures with catkinued hazels, and tossed their long blackberry branches...those hedgerows, the liberal homes of unmarketable beauty—of the purpleblossomed ruby-berried nightshade, of the wild convolvulus climbing and spreading... | |
| Henry H. Lancaster - English literature - 1876 - 512 pages
...with which " Felix Holt " opens — how the coach rolled through a land where " the bushy hedgerows wasted the land with their straggling beauty, shrouded the grassy borders of the pastures with catkinned hazels, and tossed their long blackberry branches on the cornfields. Perhaps they were white... | |
| William Stewart Ross - 1878 - 444 pages
...elder-trees, its untidy kitchen garden, and cone-shaped yew-tree arbour. But everywhere the bushy hedge-rows wasted the land with their straggling beauty^ shrouded...gathering the plenteous crabs. It was worth the journey mly to see those hedge-rows, the liberal homes of unmarketable beauty — of the purple - blossomed... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1881 - 634 pages
...wistfully looking back to the hedgerows that wasted the land, indeed, with their straggling beauty, but shrouded the grassy borders of the pastures with catkined...their long blackberry branches on the corn-fields ? Hers, she amusingly said, was not a well-regulated mind; it had moments of slumber when imagination... | |
| Natural history - 1881 - 396 pages
...district not very dissimilar from some parts of Northamptonshire, says " everywhere the bushy hedgerows wasted the land with their straggling beauty, shrouded the grassy borders of the pastures with catkiued hazels, and tossed their long blackberry branches on the cornfields." But even though a type... | |
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