Books with author Charles A. Wyeth Christoph von Schmid

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Excerpt from The Carrier PigeonGarden, which sloped down the side of the mountain. The passage to the garden was by a long flight of stone steps, de scending from a door in the castle wall. The garden was well stocked with every thing that could please the eye; here were clusters of budding roses, and flow ers in all their varieties - long rows of pears with their silver blossoms, and blush~ ing cherries peeping from beneath their dark green leaves; The mother and daughter stood, for awhile, near a fountain in the middle of the garden, amusing themselves with the play of the water, which shot up its crystal wreaths in the bright beams of the summer sun, and de scended in a thousand diamond drops, glittering With all the colors of the rain bow. Then retiring to a bower, shaded with the trellised and clustering vine, they.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Water PitcherFashion of the last century. On Sundays his usual dress was a large, round, uno powdered wig, a neckcloth of the finest white linen, a frock of cinnamon brown, cut in the old fashion, with large buttons covered with gold lace. The same taste was visible in his house. The furniture of the chambers, the tapestry, the frames of the pictures and mirrors, tables, chairs and sideboard, were all of costly material, but entirely of the old fashion. The writing desk of walnut, with its old drawers, was the very one which had been used by his grandfather, and the cumbrous arm-chair still held the place it had held three gene rations before.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.