 | 1838 - 418 pages
...old melancholy-looking yew trees, or the firs, and picking up the red berries, and the fir apples, which were good for nothing but to look at — or...fancy myself ripening too along with the oranges and limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1874 - 220 pages
...picking up the red berries, and the fir-apples, which were good for nothing but to look at, — or in ly? about upon the fresh grass with all the fine garden...fancy myself ripening too, along with the oranges and 1he limes in that grateful warmth, — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fishpond,... | |
 | 1992 - 350 pages
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 | 1971 - 296 pages
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... nectarines and peaches hung upon the walls, without my ever offering to pluck them, because they were forbidden fruit, unless now and then; and because I had more pleasure in strolling about among the old melancholy-looking yew-trees, or the firs,... 
