Perhaps most impressive about Bough Down is that, despite the poetic pitch of its language, it refuses to poeticize its subject. |
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The flies are attracted to early sweet apple varieties such as Bough Sweet and Wealthy. |
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He received some instruction in drawing from Robert Bough, a road surveyor, who was working under Thomas Telford. |
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The cracking of an old bough, or the hooting of the owl, was enough to fill me with alarm, and try my strength in a precipitate flight. |
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Hide you in your housen! Hang above your Portals The shielding quicken bough! |
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After they are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough nor twig in the trunk or the stem. |
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The Vicar leads a procession through the village, he is followed by the Tower Captain holding the Oak bough. |
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A pair of birds settle on the bough above them, murmuring together, ready to roost. |
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The pigeon rocked itself backwards and forwards on the bough, swelling out its breast feathers and laying its coralline beak upon them. |
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