 The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet. Streaming files of wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air ;...  The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent - Page 356by Washington Irving - 1822 - 393 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 438 pages
...wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air ; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory nuts, and the...birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fullness of their revelry, they fluttered, chirping and frolicking, from bush to bush, and tree to... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
...high in the air ; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory-nuts, and the pensive whistle of 'the quail at intervals...tree to tree, capricious from the very profusion and variely around them. There was the honest cockrobm, the favourite game of stripling sportsmen, with... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air ; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory nuts, and the...to bush and tree to tree, capriCious from the very abundance around them. There was the honest cock-robin, the favourite game of stripling sportsmen,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 194 pages
...wild dncks began to make,4 their appearance high in the air ; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory nuts , and the...pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighbonring stubble field. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fulness of... | |
 | American literature - 1836 - 342 pages
...their appearance high in the air ; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beach and hickory nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail...birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fullness of their revelry, they fluttered, chirping and frolicking, from bush to bush, and trce to... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1846 - 356 pages
...wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air ; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory nuts, and the...were taking their farewell banquets. In the fulness oi' their revelry, they fluttered, chirping and frolicking, from bush to bush, and tree to tree, capricious... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1848 - 482 pages
...wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air ; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory nuts, and the...pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubble-field. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fullness of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 478 pages
...wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory nuts, and the...pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubble-field. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fullness of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 544 pages
...wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air ; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory nuts, and the...pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubble-field. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fullness of... | |
 | Washington Irving - Astoria (Or.) - 1849 - 484 pages
...wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals frorh the neighboring stubble-field. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fullness... | |
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