Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing Specimens and Examples of School and College Exercises, and Most of the Higher Departments of English Composition, Both in Prose and VerseHarper & Brothers, 1845 - 429 Seiten |
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... head , while it perfumed the air with its delicious fragrance . At the back of the house were a num- ber of fruit trees , in full blossom , among which was the peach tree , with its beautiful pink flowers . Some boys were seen ...
... head , while it perfumed the air with its delicious fragrance . At the back of the house were a num- ber of fruit trees , in full blossom , among which was the peach tree , with its beautiful pink flowers . Some boys were seen ...
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... head , and crying pewit so distinct- ly , one might almost fancy they spoke . I thought I should have caught one of them , for he flew as if one of his wings was broken , and often tumbled close to the ground ; but , as I came near , he ...
... head , and crying pewit so distinct- ly , one might almost fancy they spoke . I thought I should have caught one of them , for he flew as if one of his wings was broken , and often tumbled close to the ground ; but , as I came near , he ...
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... head and bill , and a short tail . Tutor . I can tell you what that bird was a kingfisher , the celebrated halcyon of the ancients , about which so many tales are told . It lives on fish , which it catches in the manner you saw . It ...
... head and bill , and a short tail . Tutor . I can tell you what that bird was a kingfisher , the celebrated halcyon of the ancients , about which so many tales are told . It lives on fish , which it catches in the manner you saw . It ...
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... head , with his large flapping wings . He alighted at the next turn of the river , and I crept softly behind the bank to watch his motions . He had waded into the water as far as his long legs would carry him , and was standing with his ...
... head , with his large flapping wings . He alighted at the next turn of the river , and I crept softly behind the bank to watch his motions . He had waded into the water as far as his long legs would carry him , and was standing with his ...
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... head . Tutor . It does so ; and you may probably have observed the same apparent enlargement of the moon at its rising . William . I have ; but pray what is the reason of this ? Tutor . It is an optical deception , depending upon ...
... head . Tutor . It does so ; and you may probably have observed the same apparent enlargement of the moon at its rising . William . I have ; but pray what is the reason of this ? Tutor . It is an optical deception , depending upon ...
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