 | 1820 - 590 pages
...them with a few of these introductory sentences. * The sun was setting upon one of the rich glassy glades of that forest, which we have mentioned in the beginning of the chapter. Hundreds of broad short-stemmed oaks, which had wimessed perhaps the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 pages
...setting upon one of the rich grassy glades ' of this ' forest: — hundreds of broad short-stemmed ' oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march of ' the Roman soldiery, flung their broad gnarled arms ' over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; ' * in some places they... | |
 | 1820 - 856 pages
...tale is in the neighbourhood of Doncaster, in a forest, where — ' Hundreds of broad short-stemmed oaks, which had witnessed, perhaps, the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; in some places they were... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 356 pages
...descendants of the victor Normans and the vanquished Saxons. The sun was setting upon one of the rich grassy glades of that forest, which we have mentioned in the beginning of the chapter. Hundreds of broad short-stemmed oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung... | |
 | david william - 1820 - 564 pages
...that forest, which we have mentioned in the beginning of the chapter. Hundreds of broad short-stemmed oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; in some places they were... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 550 pages
...descendants of the victor Normans and the vanquished Saxons. The sun was setting upon one of the rich grassy glades of that forest, which we have mentioned in the beginning of the chapter. Hundreds of broad short-stemmed oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung... | |
 | John Leycester Adolphus - 1822 - 228 pages
...setting upon one of the rich grassy glades of" this " forest : — hundreds of broad short-stemmed oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; in some places they were... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 852 pages
...descendants of the victor Normans and the vanquished Saxons. The sun was setting upon one of the rich grassy glades of that forest, which we have mentioned in...chapter. Hundreds of broad-headed, short-stemmed, white-branched oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung their... | |
 | George Oliver - 1836 - 226 pages
...The sun was setting upon one of the rich grassy glades of the forest. Hundreds of broad short-stemmed oaks, which had witnessed, perhaps, the stately march of the Roman soldiery flung their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward; in some places they were... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1837 - 466 pages
...was setting upon one of the rich grassy glades of Sherwood Forest. Hundreds of broad short-stemmed oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious greensward ; in some places they were... | |
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Hundreds of broad-headed, shortstemmed, wide-branched oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung their gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious greensward ; in some places they were intermingled with... 
