 ... alders ; between the pale-green reeds ; where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and the sedge-bird, not content with its own sweet song, mocked the notes of all the birds around...  Anglers' Evenings - Page 2141882 - 276 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Kingsley - 1866 - 430 pages
...reaches of clear brown glassy water ; between the dark-green alders ; between the pale-green reeds ; where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and...sedge-bird, not content with its own sweet song, mocked the song of all the birds around ; and then out into the broad lagoons, where hung motionless, high overhead,... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1867 - 796 pages
...reaches of clear brown glassy water ; between the dark-green alders ; between the pale-green reeds ; where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and...sweet song, mocked the notes of all the birds around ; and then out into the broad lagoons, where hung motionless, high over head, hawk beyond hawk, buzzard... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1878 - 412 pages
...reaches of clear brown glassy water; between the dark-green alders ; between the pale-green reeds ; where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and...sedge-bird, not content with its own sweet song, mocked the song of all the birds around ; and then out into the broad lagoons, where hung motionless, high overhead,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1880 - 246 pages
...backed by Caistor Hanglands and Holme Wood and the patches of the primeval forest ; while darkgreen alders and pale-green reeds stretched for miles round...and the sedge-bird, not content with its own sweet pong, mocked the notes of all the birds around; while high overhead hung, motionless, hawk beyond hawk,... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1881 - 396 pages
...reaches of clear brown glassy water; between the dark-green alders ; between the pale-green reeds ; where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and...sweet song, mocked the notes of all the birds around ; and then out into the broad lagoons, where hung motionless, high over head, hawk beyond hawk, buzzard... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1884 - 544 pages
...reaches of clear brown glassy water ; between the dark-green alders ; between the pale-green reeds ; where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and...sweet song, mocked the notes of all the birds around ; and then out into the broad lagoons, where hung motionless, high over head, hawk beyond hawk, buzzard... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1887 - 540 pages
...reaches of clear brown glassy water ; between the dark-green alders ; between the pale-green reeds ; where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and...sweet song, mocked the notes of all the birds around ; and then out into the broad lagoons, where hung motionless, high over head, hawk beyond hawk, buzzard... | |
 | William H. Wintringham - 1892 - 446 pages
...reaches of clear brown glassy water ; between the dark-green alders ; between the pale-green reeds ; where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and...sweet song, mocked the notes of all the birds around ; and then out into the broad lagoons, where hung motionless, high overhead, hawk beyond hawk, buzzard... | |
 | Frederic John Gardiner - 1898 - 576 pages
...natural marsh-land, where, formerly, in the words of Canon Kingsley, " dark green alders and pale green reeds stretched for miles round the broad lagoon,...where the coot clanked and the bittern boomed, and the sedge bird, not content with its own sweet song, mocked the notes of all the birds around ; while high... | |
 | Frederic John Gardiner - 1898 - 628 pages
...natural marsh-land, where, formerly, in the words of Canon Kingsley, "dark green alders and pale green reeds stretched for miles round the broad lagoon,...where the coot clanked and the bittern boomed, and the sedge bird, not content with its own sweet song, mocked the notes of all the birds around ; while high... | |
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