red-coned

Updated: June 22, 2025

Here there is always a deep coombe, or the top of a wood underneath, or a rising slope, or a distant ridge crowned with red-tiled farmstead, red-coned oast-house, and tall spruce firs. Or far away, miles and miles, the fields of the weald pushed close together by distance till in a surface no larger than the floor of a room there are six or seven farms and a village.

Richard Jefferies - Field and Hedgerow : Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies