 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 438 pages
...on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet....pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighbouring stubble field. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fullness of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 pages
...on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet...pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighbouring stubble field. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fulness of... | |
 | Washington Irving - Americans - 1821 - 328 pages
...hickory nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighbouring stubble field. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. ' In the fullness of their Teyelry, they fluttered, chirping and frolicking, from bush to bush, and tree to tree, capricious from... | |
 | Washington Irving - England - 1822 - 490 pages
...on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet....in the air; the bark of the squirrel might be heard AA 2 from the groves of beech and hickory nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 416 pages
...on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet....the air ; the bark of the squirrel might be heard AA 2 from the groves of beech and hickory nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1823 - 402 pages
...the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of oranage, pturple, and seawlet. Streaming files of wild ducks began to make their...might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory nats, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighbouring, stubble field. The small... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet....pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighbouring stubble field. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fulness of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
...on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet....squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory-nuts, and the pensive whistle of 'the quail at intervals from the neighbouring stubble field.... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet....pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighbouring stubble field. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fulness of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 pages
...on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet....pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighbouring stubble field. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fulness of... | |
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It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day ; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the... 
