Geoffrey Grigson's Countryside: The Classic Companion to Rural BritainEbury Press, 1982 - 263 pagina's |
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Pagina 88
... building stone in many counties , flint owes its hardness to its content of silica . It is a rock which formed in nodules in the chalk when chalk surfaces began to feel the effect of heavy tropical rainfall . ' The percolat- ing water ...
... building stone in many counties , flint owes its hardness to its content of silica . It is a rock which formed in nodules in the chalk when chalk surfaces began to feel the effect of heavy tropical rainfall . ' The percolat- ing water ...
Pagina 107
... building , presumably after the conversion of the Anglo - Saxons , who did not remember that many of these works of Grim had in fact been the handiwork of their own ancestors . In much the same way giants and the Devil were invoked in ...
... building , presumably after the conversion of the Anglo - Saxons , who did not remember that many of these works of Grim had in fact been the handiwork of their own ancestors . In much the same way giants and the Devil were invoked in ...
Pagina 217
... buildings in town and country , partly because its use was a way of giving a building in inexpensive brick or rubble the blandness of a building in expensive freestone . The word , the idea and the substance came from Italian ...
... buildings in town and country , partly because its use was a way of giving a building in inexpensive brick or rubble the blandness of a building in expensive freestone . The word , the idea and the substance came from Italian ...
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Geoffrey Grigson's Countryside: The Classic Companion to Rural Britain Geoffrey Grigson Fragmentweergave - 1982 |
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