| John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Duke of Argyll - 1884 - 252 Seiten
...land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas, Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand-Pre' Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched...village its name, and pasture to flocks without number. Dykes that the hands of the farmers had raised with labour incessant, Shut out the turbulent tides... | |
| Moses Foster Sweetser - 1885 - 384 Seiten
...land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas, Distant, seclnded, still, the little village of Grand Pré Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched...the village its name, and pasture to flocks without numher. Dikes, that the hands of the farmers had raised with lahor incessant, Shut out the turhulent... | |
| Geography reading books - 1885 - 270 Seiten
...land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas, Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand-Pre Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to the eastward, Giving the village its name, and fasturc to flocks without number. Dikes, that the hands of the farmers had raised with labour incessant,... | |
| 1885 - 800 Seiten
...descriptive of like works on the English Humber and Trent : — " Dikes, that the bands of the fanners had raised with labour incessant, Shut out the turbulent tides ; but at certain seasons the flood-gates Opened, and welcomed the sea to wander at will o'er the meadows." ALTERNATING... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 378 Seiten
...land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas, Distant, secluded, still, the little village of GrandLay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to...Dikes, that the hands of the farmers had raised with labor incessant, Shut out the turbulent tides ; but at stated seasons the flood-gates Opened, and welcomed... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 560 Seiten
...land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas, Distant, seclnded, still, the little village of Grand-Pré Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched...without number. Dikes, that the hands of the farmers bad raised with labor incessant, Shut out the turbulent !ides ; but at stated seasons the flood-gates... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 112 Seiten
...land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas, Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand-Pre* Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to the eastward, Giving the village its name, and pasjjye to flocks without number. Dikes, that the hands of the farmers had raised with labor incessant,... | |
| Annie Robina Butler - 1886 - 280 Seiten
...and no means; but education and refinement are accepted even without money.' CHAPTER IX. A SHEEP-RUN. Vast meadows stretched to the eastward, Giving the...village its name, and pasture to flocks without number.. West and south there were fields of flax, and orchards, and cornfields Spreading afar and unfenced... | |
| Edward Conant - 1887 - 164 Seiten
...land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas, Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand Pre 1 Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched...Dikes, that the hands of the farmers had raised, with labor incessant, Shut out the turbulent tides ; but at stated seasons the flood-gates Opened, and welcomed... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1887 - 72 Seiten
...land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas, Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand-Pre" Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched...village its name, and pasture to flocks without number, f Dikes, that the hands of the farmer had raised with labour incessant, Shut out the turbulent tides... | |
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