 | 1875 - Страниц: 592
...he could not remember the time when he did not earn his own living. The first thing he was set to do was driving the small birds from the turnip-seed, and the rooks from the peas. 266 267 and leading a single horse at harrowing barley. Hoeing peas followed ; and hence I arrived... | |
 | Edward Smith - 1878 - Страниц: 350
...beloved and respected. "So much for my ancestors, from whom, if I derive no honour, I derive no shame. " A father like ours, it will be readily supposed, did...first occupation was driving the small birds from the turnip seed, and the rooks from the peas. When I first trudged a-field, with my wooden bottle and my... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1883 - Страниц: 860
...little education in his boyhood. ' I do not remember,' he says, ' the time when I did not earn my own living. My first occupation was driving the small...and the rooks from the pease. When I first trudged a-field, with my wooden bottle and my satchel slung over my shoulders, I was hardly able to climb the... | |
 | Robert Waters - 1883 - Страниц: 612
...beloved and respected. "So much for my ancestors,- from whom, if I derive no honor, I derive no shame. A father like ours, it will be readily supposed, did...first occupation was driving the small birds from the turnip-field and the rooks from the peas. When I first trudged a-field, with my wooden bottle and my... | |
 | Frédéric Hunt - 1883 - Страниц: 194
...méprise (suite): — III. — A traduire en français :- — A father like ours, it will readily be supposed, did not suffer us to eat the bread of idleness. I do not remember the time when I Neighbour, voisin. S ex (the fair sex), le beau sexe. Painting (art), peinture. Spirit (inspiration),... | |
 | Robert Waters - 1888 - Страниц: 334
...beloved and respected. " So much for my ancestors, from whom, if I derive no honor, I derive no shame. A father like ours, it will be readily supposed, did...first occupation was driving the small birds from the turnip-field and the rooks from the peas. When I first trudged a-field, with my wooden bottle and my... | |
 | 1886 - Страниц: 552
...which never fails in England to give a man in a country-place some little weight with his neighbors. He was honest, industrious and frugal ; it was not,...and the rooks from the pease. When I first trudged afield with my wooden bottle and my satchel swung over my shoulders, I was hardly able to climb the... | |
 | Richard Heath - 1893 - Страниц: 434
...Crooksbury Hill ' meant with us the utmost degree of height." "A father like ours," he goes on to say, "it will be readily supposed, did not suffer us to...I do not remember the time when I did not earn my own living. My first occupation was driving the small birds from the turnip seed and the rooks from... | |
 | William Allingham - 1893 - Страниц: 270
...... I do not remember the time [says William. the third (?) of these boys] when I did not earn my own living. My first occupation was driving the small...and the rooks from the pease. When I first trudged afield, with my wooden bottle and my satchel swung over my shoulders, I was hardly able to climb the... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1895 - Страниц: 552
...which never fails in England to give a man in a country-place some little weight with his neighbors. He was honest, industrious and frugal ; it was not,...and the rooks from the pease. When I first trudged afield with my wooden bottle and my satchel swung over my shoulders, I was hardly able to climb the... | |
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When I first trudged afield with my wooden bottle and my satchel swung over my shoulders, I was hardly able to climb the gates and stiles, and at the close of the day to reach home was a task of infinite difficulty. 
