These windfalls were great places, too, for rabbits, partridges, and 'such small deer,' and it was no great thing to boast of, to kill a dozen or two of the birds of an afternoon.

The snow-shoe rabbits had burrowed deep under the snow or to the heart of the heaviest windfalls.

The wolves and the foxes had sought out the windfalls, and the rocks.

The deer, the caribou and the moose could not crawl under windfalls or creep between rocks.

"Yes," said the dealer, "our windfalls are of various kinds.

I had windfalls sometimes, such as pieces of bread nibbled at the ends, which the children would take out of their baskets and throw on the sidewalks as they came from school.

"These windfalls come rarely to the poor, and we must make much of such as offer.

He travelled slowly and in a zigzag fashion, stealing cautiously around great masses of boulders, sniffing up each coulee that he came to, and investigating the timber clumps and windfalls.

There were no rocks to climb over, but dank, soft logs, thick windfalls, and litters of brush.

There is another thinning of the fruit, commonly near the end of August or in September, when the ground is strewn with windfalls; and this happens especially when high winds occur after rain.

All the country over, people are busy picking up the windfalls, and this will make them cheap for early apple-pies.

] MARKHEIM[90] ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON "Yes," said the dealer, "our windfalls are of various kinds.

All the women in town have taken them up upon the foot of Judgments; and the clergy, who have had no windfalls of a long season, have driven horse and foot into this opinion.

A well there was withouten mudd, Of silver hue, with waters cleare, Whome neither sheep that chawe the cudd, Shepheards nor goates came ever neare; Whome, truth to say, nor beast nor bird, Nor windfalls yet from trees had stirrde.

We mounted and rode on for an hour, then climbed through a magnificent forest of huge trees, windfalls, and a ferny, mossy, soft ground.

We had an hour of winding in and out among windfalls of timber, and jumping logs, and breaking through brush.

This forest was deep and dark, with tremendous windfalls, and great canyons around which we had to travel.

Here we got into trouble in the windfalls of timber and the pack drew away from us, up over the mountain.

Bogs, brooks, swales, rocky little parks, stretches of timber full of windfalls, groves of aspens so thick we could scarcely squeeze throughall these obstacles soon allowed the hounds to get far away.

Huge boulders and windfalls, moved by water at flood season, obstructed the narrow stream-bed.

We cut a way through thickets, tore rotten logs to pieces, threw stumps aside, and moved windfalls.

As we pushed on we came to some old windfalls that were troublesome to get through.

And she dashed off down the wood-road, I galloping behind, leaping windfalls, gullies, and the shallow forest brooks that crossed our way.

Beware of rash criticisms; the rough and astringent fruit you condemn may be an autumn or a winter pear, and that which you picked up beneath the same bough in August may have been only its worm-eaten windfalls.

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