 | English literature - 1857 - 594 pages
...Australia had been excluded, with amazing resolution and consistency, and oak and ash reigned saie from over-towering rivals. They passed to the back...George's countenance fell a little, for on the oval grass plot and gravel walk he found from thirty to forty rough fellows, most of them diggers. ' Ah,... | |
 | Francis Young (F.R.G.S.) - 1870 - 262 pages
...middle of them. From the little plantation all the magnificent trees and shrubs of Australia had been excluded with amazing resolution and consistency,...George's countenance fell a little, for on the oval grass plot and gravel walk he found from thirty to forty rough fellows, most of them diggers. " Ah,... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - Readers - 1872 - 418 pages
...middle of them. From the little plantation all the magnificent trees and shrubs of Australia had been excluded with amazing resolution, and consistency,...thirty to forty rough fellows, most of them diggers. 2. " Ah, well," said he, on reflection, " we could not expect to have it all to ourselves, and, indeed,... | |
 | Kensington series - 1872 - 232 pages
...middle of them. From the little plantation all the magnificent trees and shrubs of Australia had been excluded with amazing resolution and consistency,...George's countenance fell a little, for on the oval grass plot and gravel walk he found from thirty to forty rough fellows, most of them diggers. " Ah,... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1884 - 264 pages
...middle of them. 6. From the little plantation all the magnificent trees and shrubs of Australia had been excluded with amazing resolution and consistency,...George's countenance fell a little, for on the oval grass plot and gravel walk he found from thirty to forty rough fellows, most of them diggers. THE LARKS... | |
 | Charles Reade - 1894 - 476 pages
...the house, and there George's countenance fell a little, for on the oval grass-plot and gravel walk he found from thirty to forty rough fellows, most...expect to have it all to ourselves, and indeed it wo'-ild be a sin to wish it you know. Now, Tom, come this way ; here it is, here it is — there.'... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - Readers - 1901 - 272 pages
...middle of them. From the little plantation all the magnificent trees and shrubs of Australia had been excluded with amazing resolution and consistency,...rivals. They passed to the back of the house, and there i0 George's countenance fell a little, for on the oval grass-plot and gravel-walk he found from thirty... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - Readers - 1901 - 272 pages
...middle of them. From the little plantation all the magnificent trees and shrubs of Australia had been excluded with amazing resolution and consistency,...rivals. They passed to the back of the house, and there 10 George's countenance fell a little, for on the oval grass-plot and gravel-walk he found from thirty... | |
 | Will David Howe - Readers - 1912 - 318 pages
...was thatched and whitewashed, and English was written on it and on every foot of ground around it. They passed to the back of the house, and there George's countenance fell a little, for on the oval grass plot and gravel walk he found from thirty to forty rough fellows, most of them gold diggers.... | |
| |
A furze bush had been planted by the door. Vertical oak palings were the fence, with a five-barred gate in the middle of them. From the little plantation all the magnificent trees and shrubs of Australia had b«en excluded with amazing resolution and... 
