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But perhaps the oak that appeals most to the lively imagination venerating old tales of merry England, and with whose story generous hearts are most in sympathy, is that "Wherein the younger Charles abode Till all the paths were dim, And far below the Roundhead rode, And hummed a surly hymn." The beech is not a common tree in the Vale of Evesham, preferring the dryer soils of the Cotswold Hills.
Buoyed up by his hollow quills he soon reached the shore, none the worse for his sudden bath, save for his sorely ruffled feelings. For the time being his hunger for lily-pads had been satisfied but, as he shambled out of the swamp toward the dryer woods, he grunted complainingly. A dim light among the trees warned him of the approach of day, and Kagh looked about for a place to take a nap.
Make haste little primroses, cowslips, and daisies, we're Longing your faces to greet, to greet, to greet!" Trans. "Yes, that's what you are singing. Good-bye," and waving her hand towards them again, she turned her face to the boggy moor, picking her way over the stepping-stones which led up to the dryer sheep paths.
These facts are remarkable; for there can hardly be a doubt that in the dryer provinces of South Africa these plants have propagated themselves for thousands of generations in an erect condition; and yet they have retained during this whole period the innate power of spontaneously revolving and twining, whenever their shoots become elongated under proper conditions of life.
With his beautiful young wife on his arm he wandered through the lovely Laubwald that precious possession of the city and though he had often said while in Italy, where it is dryer and the foliage sparser than in Germany, that there was nothing so beautiful as the abounding brooks and the dense greenery of his native forests, it gave him sincere joy, that spring, to have his opinion confirmed and to see that his dearly loved wife cared as much for the German woods as he did.
"You'd better wait a couple of weeks, until it gets dryer.... If there were any point in going but you know yourself that people are always on the move day and night and there's no point in it. Sure!" Vassili Andreich said nothing, gave him a tip, took his seat in the coach and drove away. "Look! He's gone galloping after the doctor!" said Simeon, shivering in the cold. "Yes.
But she laughed, and "'lowed" that I couldn't match either of her three boys in asking questions, and then informed him that she did not "calculate on making the move until the roads be dryer and the weather settled." She promised, however, that I should have good care until I could be handed over to the Brunners.
During the calm Indian summer, scarce a sand-grain moves around its banks, but in flood-times and storm-times, soil is washed forward upon it and laid in successive sheets around its gently sloping rim, and is gradually extended to the center, making it dryer.
Yan tried it with the pole did not dare to wade, so they walked along its course till they found a small tree lying from bank to bank, then crossed on this. Half a mile farther on the bog got dryer, and a mass of green ahead marked one of the islands of high land. Over this they passed quickly, keeping the northwest course. They now had a succession of small bogs and large islands.
So, both sets of gates were, for the moment, closed. 'You'd better by far be reasonable, Bradley Headstone, Master, said Riderhood, passing him, 'or I'll drain you all the dryer for it, when we do settle. Ah! Would you! Bradley had caught him round the body. He seemed to be girdled with an iron ring. They were on the brink of the Lock, about midway between the two sets of gates.
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