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Paperback, [PU: Read Books], This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...had swerved from the direct course, and was now making a sweep to the right, evidently in search of the vale and of a friendly copse. Noel had a general idea that the valley lay on the right, but he had no knowledge of the locality; he guided his course therefore partly by the hounds, and partly by the motion of the scarlet jacket on his left. It seemed to him that scarlet jacket was making a long detour to the left, and in the wild desire to forge to the front--to be alone, the first--Noel gave way to his own impression, and wheeling a little to the right, sought to cut off a corner by galloping through a field of beans. His weary horse urged its way heavily through the beans, snorting and plunging along, necked with foam and with a drooping head. Noel, looking over his left shoulder to watch scarlet jacket, was not so much on the look-out as he should have been; so that it came on him like a horrible and frightful apparition, --a snort and a sudden rearing of his horse as the animal tried to stop itself, and rose up almost upright upon its hind The fore feet, where were they? Reaching right over a precipice! In that moment of intense sensation Noel saw the distant vale, the trees and woods, the pasture-fields, the dim horizon, towns and villages and church-towers, blue smoke from the hamlets, windmills revolving--a panorama of landscapes. It rushed up to meet him, he knew not how; the air rushed by his ears--he felt as if he was taking a tremendous leap. Then there was a jar, a shock, a sharp pain, and unconsciousness. And all this had occupied barely a second. The chalk cliff fell twenty feet sheer from the edge of the field, and he had galloped right over it. Then at the bottom of the cliff there was a ledge, along which a narrow road wound; below this a.., Contemporary Fiction<

ISBN: 9781447466789

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… Plus…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...had swerved from the direct course, and was now making a sweep to the right, evidently in search of the vale and of a friendly copse. Noel had a general idea that the valley lay on the right, but he had no knowledge of the locality; he guided his course therefore partly by the hounds, and partly by the motion of the scarlet jacket on his left. It seemed to him that scarlet jacket was making a long detour to the left, and in the wild desire to forge to the front--to be alone, the first--Noel gave way to his own impression, and wheeling a little to the right, sought to cut off a corner by galloping through a field of beans. His weary horse urged its way heavily through the beans, snorting and plunging along, necked with foam and with a drooping head. Noel, looking over his left shoulder to watch scarlet jacket, was not so much on the look-out as he should have been; so that it came on him like a horrible and frightful apparition, --a snort and a sudden rearing of his horse as the animal tried to stop itself, and rose up almost upright upon its hind The fore feet, where were they? Reaching right over a precipice In that moment of intense sensation Noel saw the distant vale, the trees and woods, the pasture-fields, the dim horizon, towns and villages and church-towers, blue smoke from the hamlets, windmills revolving--a panorama of landscapes. It rushed up to meet him, he knew not how; the air rushed by his ears--he felt as if he was taking a tremendous leap. Then there was a jar, a shock, a sharp pain, and unconsciousness. And all this had occupied barely a second. The chalk cliff fell twenty feet sheer from the edge of the field, and he had galloped right over it. Then at the bottom of the cliff there was a ledge, along which a narrow road wound; below this a.. Books List_Books<

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Paperback, [EAN: 9781447466789], Bowen Press, Bowen Press, Book, [PU: Bowen Press], Bowen Press, Volume three of Richard Jefferies’ Restless Human Hearts. John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 – 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of , 10129, Contemporary, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

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