The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land BabyMacmillan, 1899 - 310 páginas |
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... bird warbling in the sedges , as he had warbled all night long . All else was silent . For old Mrs. Earth was still fast ... birds ' nests in the hedge ; but Mr. Grimes was a man of business , and would not have heard of that . Soon they ...
... bird warbling in the sedges , as he had warbled all night long . All else was silent . For old Mrs. Earth was still fast ... birds ' nests in the hedge ; but Mr. Grimes was a man of business , and would not have heard of that . Soon they ...
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... bird - cherry with its tassels of snow . And there Grimes stopped , and looked ; and Tom looked too . Tom was wondering whether anything lived in that dark cave , and came out at night to fly in the meadows . But Grimes was not ...
... bird - cherry with its tassels of snow . And there Grimes stopped , and looked ; and Tom looked too . Tom was wondering whether anything lived in that dark cave , and came out at night to fly in the meadows . But Grimes was not ...
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... hardly knows what is . This was written before Professor Owen's Memoir of November 20 , 862 , showing that the Archeopteryx is certainly a bird . The truth is , that folks ' fancy that such A Fairy Tale for a Land - Baby . 69.
... hardly knows what is . This was written before Professor Owen's Memoir of November 20 , 862 , showing that the Archeopteryx is certainly a bird . The truth is , that folks ' fancy that such A Fairy Tale for a Land - Baby . 69.
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... in his poultry - yard , and the reptile give birth at once to an indefinite number of fishes and birds ? Yet the history of the jelly - fish is quite as wonderful as that would be . " Ask him if he knows A Fairy Tale for a Land - Baby . 71.
... in his poultry - yard , and the reptile give birth at once to an indefinite number of fishes and birds ? Yet the history of the jelly - fish is quite as wonderful as that would be . " Ask him if he knows A Fairy Tale for a Land - Baby . 71.
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... bird and beast ; He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small : For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all . " COLERIDGE . " Amphibious : C OM was now quite amphibious . You do not know what that means ...
... bird and beast ; He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small : For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all . " COLERIDGE . " Amphibious : C OM was now quite amphibious . You do not know what that means ...
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afraid asked babies backstairs beasts beautiful Bedonebyasyoudid began birch-rod birds bogies Carey's catch CHARLES KINGSLEY chimney chimney-sweep clean crag creatures cried crying dirty dovekies Epimetheus eyes fairy fancy fellow fish frightened grew Grimes Harthover head heard Hellebore hippopotamus hundred Julius Cæsar jumped knew lady laughed legs little boys little children little dear little Ellie live lobster looked ma'am MATTHEW ARNOLD mollys Mother Carey Mount Erebus mouth nasty naughty never night nose once Other-end-of-Nowhere otter Peacepool perhaps petrels poor little Pow-wow pretty professor right whales rocks round salmon seen Shiny Wall Sir John sleep stone strange stream stupid sure swam sweet tail tell things thought thunderbox told Tom longed Tom waited Tom's took trout truncheon turned ugly Vendale water-babies whale wings wonderful
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