 ... melancholy geese wandering about in search of water, which they never find ; and horses that come down from the woods for their evening feed ; and dogs that lie all day asleep in the sun. But, after all, it is not English ; for down comes quiet...  Diary of an Idle Woman in Italy - Page 138by Frances Minto Elliot - 1871Full view - About this book
 | 1855 - 518 pages
...the sun. But, after all, it is not English, for down comes quiet Minicù, the serving-man, towards the Ave Maria, in the pleasant evening time, followed...laden with wood, and horses carrying on their backs, in piled-up sheaves, the sweetly-scented hay from the upper pastures on Hannibal's Camp ; not to forget... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1855 - 516 pages
...in the sun. But, after all, it is not English, for down comes quiet Minieu, the serving-man, towards the Ave Maria, in the pleasant evening time, followed...laden with wood, and horses carrying on their backs, in piled-up sheaves, the sweetly-scented hay from the upper pastures on Hannibal's Camp ; not to forget... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1855 - 520 pages
...the sun. But, after all, it is not English, for down comes quiet .Minirn, the serving-man, towards the Ave Maria, in the pleasant evening time, followed...troop of grey oxen with mighty horns, and strings of males laden with wood, and horses carrying on their backs, in piled-up sheaves, the sweetly-scented... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1868 - 692 pages
...not English ; for down comes the quiet farm help towards the Ave Maria in the pleasant evening-time, followed by a troop of grey oxen with mighty horns,...laden with wood, and horses carrying on their backs, in piled-up sheaves, the sweetly scented hay from the upper pastures. There is the long pergola, too... | |
 | Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot ("Mrs. Gilbert Elliot, ") - Italy - 1872 - 754 pages
...in the shade. But, after all, it is not English; for down comes quiet Michele, the serving-man, at the Ave Maria in the pleasant evening time, followed...pergola (arbour) draped with young grapes, under which my children play at bocci in the shade; and there is a sound of low chanting from the monastery, in... | |
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