Not a tree nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached to the edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it. Even the grass was not green, for the sun had... The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia - Page 17edited by - 2006 - 1916 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Lyman Frank Baum - Children's literature - 1903 - 258 pages
...nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached the edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass,...seen everywhere. Once the house had been painted, but the sun blistered the paint and the rains washed it away, and now the house was as dull and gray as... | |
| Joanna Stratton - Biography & Autobiography - 1982 - 324 pages
...country that reached the edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the plowed land in a great mass, with little cracks running through it. Even...seen everywhere. Once the house had been painted, but the sun had blistered the paint and the rains washed it away, and now the house was as dull and gray... | |
| Lyman Frank Baum - Juvenile Fiction - 1993 - 150 pages
...that reached the edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the ploughed land into a grey mass, with little cracks running through it. Even...the tops of the long blades until they were the same grey colour to be seen everywhere. Once the house had been painted, but the sun blistered the paint... | |
| Jean Costermans, Michel Fayol - Education - 1997 - 304 pages
...consequence Violation is not fulfilled unexpected outcomes unexpected elements unexpected consequence 1.1 The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it. 2 Even the grass was not green, for the sun had burned the tops of the long blades until they were... | |
| David Ward, Oliver Zunz - Architecture - 1997 - 390 pages
...surrounded by the "great gray prairie. . . . The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass. . . . Once the house had been painted [but now it] was as dull and gray as everything else."1 Theodore Dreiser, the author of Sister Carrie, uses similar adjectives to describe his heroine's... | |
| Elisa Lynn Carbone, Elisa Carbone - Education - 1998 - 120 pages
...nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached the edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass,...seen everywhere. Once the house had been painted, but the sun blistered the paint and the rains washed it away, and now the house was as dull and gray as... | |
| Zeese Papanikolas - Social Science - 1998 - 208 pages
...nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached the edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass,...seen everywhere. Once the house had been painted, but the sun blistered the paint and the rains washed it away, and now the house was as dull and gray as... | |
| L. Frank Baum - Fiction - 1998 - 436 pages
...reached the edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass,3 with little cracks running through it. Even the grass...blades until they were the same gray color to be seen elsewhere. Once the house had been painted, but the sun blistered the paint and the rains washed it... | |
| Patricia A. Junker - Art - 1998 - 268 pages
...broad sweep of flat country that reached the edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had burned the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks...the grass was not green, for the sun had burned the tips of the long blades until they were the same gray color to be seen everywhere. Once the house had... | |
| William A. Katz - Book selection - 2001 - 238 pages
...nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached the edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass,...the long blades until they were the same gray color as to be seen everywhere. Once the house had been painted, but the sun blistered the paint and the... | |
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