 | George Eliot - 1860 - 478 pàgines
...themselves of their burdens from the far north, and carry away, in exchange, the precious inland products, the well-crushed cheese and the soft fleeces, which...from the camp on the hill-side, and the long-haired sea-kings came up the river and looked with fierce, eager eyes at the fatness of the land. It is a... | |
 | George Eliot - 1860 - 382 pàgines
...themselves of their burthens from the far north, and carry away, in exchange, trie precious inland products, the well-crushed cheese and the soft fleeces, which...the river and the low hill from the time when the Eoman legions turned their backs on it from the camp on the hill-side, and the long-haired sea-kings... | |
 | George Eliot - 1860 - 476 pàgines
...the nests of \ the bower-birds 'or the winding galleries of the white ants—a town which carries,the traces of its long growth and history like a millennial...from the camp on the hill-side, and the long-haired sea-kings came up the river and looked with fierce, eager eyes at the fatness of the land. It is a... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1867 - 628 pàgines
...themselves of their burthens from the far north, and carry away, in exchange, the precious inland products, the wellcrushed cheese and the soft fleeces, which...from the camp on the hill-side, and the long-haired sea-kings came up the river and looked with fierce eager eyes at the fatness of the land. It is a town... | |
 | George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pàgines
...themselves of their burdens from the far north, and carry awny, in exchange, the precious inland products, the well-crushed cheese and the soft fleeces, which...from the camp on the hillside, and the longhaired sea-kings came up the river and looked with fierce eager eyes at the fatness of the land. It is a town... | |
 | George Eliot - 1878 - 440 pàgines
...themselves of their burthens from the far north, and carry away, in exchange, the precious inland products, the wellcrushed cheese and the soft fleeces, which...the river and the low hill from the time when the Eoman legions turned their backs on it from the camp on the hillside, and the long-haired sea-kings... | |
 | George Eliot - 1883 - 850 pàgines
...themselves of their burdens from the far north, and carry away, in exchange, the precious inland products, the well-crushed cheese and the soft fleeces, which...from the camp on the hill-side, and the long-haired sea-kings came up the tiver and looked with fierce, eager eyes at the fatness of the land. It is a... | |
 | E.H. Butler & Co - 1853 - 396 pàgines
...broad warehouse gables where the black ships unlade themselves of their burdens from the far North. It is one of those old, old towns which impress one...from the camp on the hill-side, and the long-haired sea-kings came up the river and looked with fierce, eager eyes at the fatness of the land. 2. It is... | |
 | George Eliot - 1886 - 516 pàgines
...themselves of their burdens from the far north, and carry away, in exchange, the precious inland products, the well-crushed cheese and the soft fleeces, which...from the camp on the hillside, and the long-haired sea-kings came up the river and looked with fierce and eager eyes at the fatness of the land. It is... | |
 | Florence Caddy - 1886 - 404 pàgines
...which impress one as a continuation and outgrowth of Nature.' A town familiar with forgotten years, 'which carries the traces of its long growth and history like a millennial tree.' Jeanne may not have been to the 6cole de Droit, where our Bacon studied law, most of that building... | |
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It is one of those old, old towns which impress one as a continuation and outgrowth of nature, as much as the nests of the bower-birds or the winding galleries of the white ants : a town which carries the traces of its long growth and history like a millennial... 
