Blackie's geographical readers, Vydanie 41884 |
Vyhľadávanie v obsahu knihy
Výsledky 1 - 5 z 18.
Strana 22
... snow , which , as dry as the sand of the desert , falls like dust from the shoes at every step , and goes flying in tiny showers across the open plains of the lawns and carriage drives . The fresh northern air piles up the white mass ...
... snow , which , as dry as the sand of the desert , falls like dust from the shoes at every step , and goes flying in tiny showers across the open plains of the lawns and carriage drives . The fresh northern air piles up the white mass ...
Strana 23
... snow and straw ; their whole atten- tion is taken up with the fragrant hand which is freely dealt out by the closely - clad shepherd . Truly the reign of winter is not without a sweetness of its own ! 6. A sharp spin of a couple of ...
... snow and straw ; their whole atten- tion is taken up with the fragrant hand which is freely dealt out by the closely - clad shepherd . Truly the reign of winter is not without a sweetness of its own ! 6. A sharp spin of a couple of ...
Strana 88
... snow in Connemara ; it is , I think , too near the sea . ' " Has your 3. As we skirted the lake my driver said , honour ever seen an eagle ? " at the same time pointing to a fine pair of brown eagles chained to a post close to a house ...
... snow in Connemara ; it is , I think , too near the sea . ' " Has your 3. As we skirted the lake my driver said , honour ever seen an eagle ? " at the same time pointing to a fine pair of brown eagles chained to a post close to a house ...
Strana 125
... snow does not fall , and during eight months of the year the whole ocean is covered with an impassable barrier of ice . 8. Masses of ice 200 feet thick and many miles in length , line the shore ; the sea is covered with ice - fields ...
... snow does not fall , and during eight months of the year the whole ocean is covered with an impassable barrier of ice . 8. Masses of ice 200 feet thick and many miles in length , line the shore ; the sea is covered with ice - fields ...
Strana 129
... snow a man goes in front in snow - shoes , and the leading dog or " foregoer , " as he is called , trots close behind him . If there should be a track , however faint , the dog will follow it himself ; and when sight fails to show it or ...
... snow a man goes in front in snow - shoes , and the leading dog or " foregoer , " as he is called , trots close behind him . If there should be a track , however faint , the dog will follow it himself ; and when sight fails to show it or ...
Časté výrazy a frázy
Aberdeen agricultural ancient Arran Atlantic Ocean Australia banks beautiful Belfast Ben Nevis Britain British Isles Cape capital Carnsore Point Castle Causeway centre Channel Clew Bay cliffs cloth boards Clyde coal coast colonies colour contains Cork County Antrim deep district Donegal Dublin Dundee Dunnet Head east Edinburgh England English Erris Head estuary Fair Head feet Firth fish Galway Bay Geographical Glasgow glens gold granite harbour Hebrides height Highlands hills inlets Iona Ireland Irish Sea iron islands lakes land largest Lawrence LESSON linen Loch Lough Lowlands mainland manufactures miles Mizen Head mountains Mull Ness North Island North Sea northern numerous Orkneys Outer Hebrides plain population port produce Reader rise river rock rocky scenery Scotland Shetlands ship-building shores side Solway Firth south-west Staffa Standard stream Street surface timber town Towns.-II trade trees Tweed valley vessels Wales western Wicklow wooded wool woollen
Populárne pasáže
Strana 10 - But here, - above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken. For all is rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone...
Strana 188 - There was an old woman who lived In a shoe, She had so many children, she didn't know what to do.
Strana 66 - THERE is not in the wide world a valley so sweet, As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet ; Oh ! the last rays of feeling and life must depart, Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.
Strana 10 - Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way Through the rude bosom of the hill, And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and dark abyss, Tells of the outrage still. The wildest glen, but this, can show Some touch of Nature's genial glow ; On high...
Strana 198 - ... band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream still let me stray, Though none should guide my feeble way; Still feel the breeze down Ettrick break, Although it chill my wither'd cheek; Still lay my head by Teviot Stone, Though there, forgotten and alone, The Bard...
Strana 116 - ... live in a big house, so a small country cannot support a big river. Now, to an Englishman or a Frenchman, the Severn or the Thames, the Seine or the Rhone, would appear considerable streams, but in the Ottawa, a mere affluent of the St. Lawrence, — an affluent, moreover, which reaches the parent stream...
Strana 191 - He forfeits a finger, a foot, or a hand. But when the Spring opens, we then take the hoe, And make the ground ready to plant and to sow ; Our corn being planted and seed being sown, The worms destroy much before it is grown ; And...
Strana 115 - Louis, which rises in the centre of the continent and flows into Lake Superior. This lake is as long as England (420 miles), and is the largest body of fresh water in the world.