West and south there were fields of flax, and orchards and cornfields Spreading afar and unfenced o'er the plain ; and away to the northward Blomidon rose, and the forests old, and aloft on the mountains Sea-fogs pitched their tents, and mists from the... Evangeline : a Tale of Acadie - Page 6by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 122 pagesFull view - About this book
| Readers - 1915 - 316 pages
...old, and aloft on the mountains 30 Sea-fogs pitched their tents, and mists from the mighty Atlantic Looked on the happy valley, but ne'er from their station...Strongly built were the houses, with frames of oak and of hemlock, Such as the peasants of Normandy built in the reign of the Henries. 35 Thatched were the roofs,... | |
| Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - American literature - 1915 - 670 pages
...and orchards and cornfields Spreading afar and unfenced o'er the plain ; and away to the northward There, in the midst of its farms, reposed the Acadian...Strongly built were the houses, with frames of oak and of hemlock Such as the peasants of Normandy built in the reign of the Henries. Thatched were the roofs,... | |
| Ruth Kedzie Wood - Gaspé District (Québec) - 1915 - 512 pages
...secluded ... the little village of Grand Pr6 Lay in the fruitful valley Strongly built were the houses Thatched were the roofs, with dormer-windows; and...the basement below protected and shaded the doorway. Columns of pale blue smoke, like clouds of incense ascending. Rose from a hundred hearths . . . Thus... | |
| Edwin Lillie Miller - English language - 1915 - 120 pages
...ne'er from their station descended. There, in the midst of the farms, reposed the Acadian village. Such as the peasants of Normandy built in the reign of the Henries. Thatched were the roofs, with dormer windows; and gables projecting Over the basement below protected and shaded the doorway. There... | |
| Paul Klapper - Reading - 1916 - 260 pages
...forests old, and aloft on the mountains Sea fogs pitched their tents, and mists from the mighty Atlantic Looked on the happy valley, but ne'er from their station descended. There in the midst of its There in the midst of its [And to the north rose the mountains with their mist-covered peaks] farms,... | |
| Harry Lyman Koopman - 1919 - 648 pages
...forests old, and aloft on the mountains Sra-fogs pitched their tents, and mists from the mighty Atlantic Looked on the happy valley, but ne'er from their station...Strongly built were the houses, with frames of oak and of hemlock, Sach as the peasants of Normandy built in the reign of the Henries, thatched were the roofs,... | |
| William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - Literature - 1920 - 668 pages
...forest old; and aloft on the mountains Sea-fogs pitched their tents; and mists from the mighty Atlantic Looked on the happy valley, but ne'er from their station...were the houses, with frames of oak and of chestnut, 15 Such as the peasants of Normandy built in the reign of the Henries. Thatched were the roofs, with... | |
| Tancredo Pinochet Le-Brun - National characteristics, American - 1920 - 296 pages
...the olden times from France," whose lover is Gabriel Lajeunesse, and the village in which he lived is "such as the peasants of Normandy built in the reign of the Henries." Not even poets, in the dreams of their free fantasy, can disregard truth. As I am writing to you about... | |
| Ernest Clark Hartwell - Readers - 1921 - 440 pages
...mists from the mighty Atlantic Looked on the happy valley, but ne'er from their station descended. lo There, in the midst of its farms, reposed the Acadian...Strongly built were the houses, with frames of oak and of hemlock, Such as the peasants of Normandy built in the reign of the IS Henries. Thatched were the roofs,... | |
| William Harris Elson - 1921 - 552 pages
...old; and aloft on the mountains 15 Sea-fogs pitched their tents; and mists from the mighty Atlantic Looked on the happy valley, but ne'er from their station...the midst of its farms, reposed the Acadian village. Such as the peasants of Normandy built in the reign of the Henries. Thatched were the roofs, with dormer-windows... | |
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