What town-wearied man does not feel refreshed and reinvigorated as he climbs the hills with a gun on his shoulder and a dog at his heels ? and for the time being is not his one wish — ' ' Give me the naked heavens above. The broad bare heath below "... Half a Million of Money: A Novel - Page 198by Amelia B. Edwards - 1865Full view - About this book
| William Michell - 1871 - 522 pages
...of the wood, they suddenly saw a man coming towards them. It was one of Sir John Manning's keepers, with a gun on his shoulder, and a dog at his heels. Joe stepped back into the shadow, pushing his sons back too, but the dog growled and sprang forward.... | |
| Eliza Cheadle - 1878 - 236 pages
...hunting morning." What town-wearied man does not feel refreshed and re-invigorated as he climbs the hills with a gun on his shoulder and a dog at his heels, and for the time being is not his one wish — " Give me the naked heavens above. The broad bare heath... | |
| Etiquette - 1880 - 236 pages
...hunting morning." What town-wearied man does not feel refreshed and re-invigorated as he climbs the hills with a gun on his shoulder and a dog at his heels, and for the time being is not his one wish — " Give me the naked heavens above, The broad bare heath... | |
| 1888 - 636 pages
...though you did go lightly so as to cheat poor old Peggy." At her call a tall, well-dressed young man, with a gun on his shoulder and a dog at his heels, turned on the hill-side and came towards them. He spoke first to Peggy, but looked at Eleanor. "Good... | |
| Lady Gertrude Elizabeth Campbell - Etiquette - 1893 - 254 pages
...hunting morning." What town-wearied man does not feel refreshed and reinvigorated as he climbs the hills with a gun on his shoulder and a dog at his heels ? and for the time being is not his one wish — ' ' Give me the naked heavens above. The broad bare... | |
| Molly Elliot Seawell - United States - 1898 - 412 pages
...and disappeared in the woods on the other side. On this October afternoon, about three o'clock, a boy with a gun on his shoulder and a dog at his heels, came noiselessly out of the woods and walked up to the top of the knoll. The day wras peculiarly still... | |
| Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy - France - 1917 - 386 pages
...that "the General" was mightily fond of shooting, and that during the winter he had often been seen with a gun on his shoulder and a dog at his heels, at break of day, roaming through the moors and forests of La Frontenay, dragging his wounded leg at... | |
| C. P. Hofstede de Groot - Painters - 1927 - 634 pages
...catalogue, No. 325; lent by the Von Wesendonck family. 134. IN THE DUNES: A SPORTSMAN.— The sportsman with a gun on his shoulder and a dog at his heels walks from the right foreground towards the left. Behind him on the uphill road go a peasant with a... | |
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