The World of To-day: The Marvels of Nature and the Creations of Man, Volume 1Harry Johnston, Leslie Haden Baron Haden-Guest William H. Wise & Company, 1937 |
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Page 65
... Sometimes in the fields on one side grow tall , heavy - trailing hops , as at Poperinghe ; sometimes the fields grow sugar - beet or pota- toes or corn , more rarely they are pastures studded with heavy , thick - limbed beasts . But for ...
... Sometimes in the fields on one side grow tall , heavy - trailing hops , as at Poperinghe ; sometimes the fields grow sugar - beet or pota- toes or corn , more rarely they are pastures studded with heavy , thick - limbed beasts . But for ...
Page 117
... sometimes sailing , sometimes quanting , sometimes being towed , with the wide Dutch sky overhead , and the plovers crying in it , and the clean west wind driving the windmills , and everything just as it was in Rembrandt's day , and ...
... sometimes sailing , sometimes quanting , sometimes being towed , with the wide Dutch sky overhead , and the plovers crying in it , and the clean west wind driving the windmills , and everything just as it was in Rembrandt's day , and ...
Page 177
... sometimes brightly painted , but very narrow lanes run at right angles between very high walls . There is something Oriental about the scene , especially at dusk , when brown maidens stroll about arm - in - arm , singing monotonous and ...
... sometimes brightly painted , but very narrow lanes run at right angles between very high walls . There is something Oriental about the scene , especially at dusk , when brown maidens stroll about arm - in - arm , singing monotonous and ...
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FRANCE | 9 |
The land and the peopleA rich variety of sceneryThe | 24 |
BELGIUM | 65 |
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