 | Edmondo De Amicis - Netherlands - 1880 - 424 pages
...canals surround the fields and orchards, pastures and kitchen-gardens, serving at once as boundary-wall, hedge, and road-way; every house is a little port....canals are the arteries of Holland, and the water her lifeblood. But even setting aside the canals, the draining of the lakes, and the defensive works, on... | |
 | Art - 1881 - 692 pages
...canals surround the ñelds and orchards, pastures and kitchen-gardens, serving at once as boundary-wall, hedge, and roadway ; every house is a little port....canals are the arteries of Holland, and the water her life-blood." But even setting aside the canals, the draining of the lakes, and the defensive works,... | |
 | Edmondo De Amicis - Netherlands - 1881 - 538 pages
...scattered over the country; smaller canals surround the fields and orchards, pastures and kitchen-gardens, serving at once as boundary- wall, hedge, and road-way...places carts and carriages. The canals are the arteries ot Holland, and the water her lifeblood. But even setting aside the canals, the draining of the lakes,... | |
 | Edmondo De Amicis - Netherlands - 1881 - 464 pages
...canals surround the fields and orchards, pastures and kitchen-gardens, serving at once as boundary-wall, hedge, and road-way ; every house is a little port....places carts and carriages. The canals are the arteries ot Holland, and the water her lifeblood. But even setting aside the canals, the draining of the lakes,... | |
 | Edmondo De Amicis - Netherlands - 1887 - 466 pages
...canals surround the fields and orchards, pastures and kitchen-gardens, serving at once as boundary-wall, hedge, and road-way ; every house is a little port....canals are the arteries of Holland, and the water her liteblood. But even setting aside the canals, the draining of the lakes, aud the defensive works, on... | |
 | Edmondo De Amicis - Netherlands - 1887 - 468 pages
...and orchards, pastures and kitchen-gardens, serving at once as boundary-wall, hedge, and road- way ; every house is a little port. Ships, boats, rafts...places carts and carriages. The canals are the arteries ot Holland, and the water her lifeblood. But even setting aside the canals, the draining of the lakes,... | |
 | Edmondo De Amicis - Netherlands - 1890 - 514 pages
...pastures and kitchen-gardens, serving at once as boundary wall, hedge, and roadway ; every house is _a little port. Ships, boats, rafts move about in all directions as in other places carts and carnages. The canals are the arteries of Holland, and the water her life-blood. But even setting aside... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literary Collections - 1896 - 582 pages
...scattered over the country; smaller canals surround the fields and orchards, pastures and kitchen-gardens, serving at once as boundary wall, hedge, and road-way;...canals are the arteries of Holland, and the water her life-blood. But even setting aside the canals, the draining of the lakes, and the defensive works,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Literature - 1901 - 456 pages
...scattered over the country ; smaller canals surround the fields and orchards, pastures and kitchen-gardens, serving at once as boundary wall, hedge, and road-way;...canals are the arteries of Holland, and the water her life-blood. But even setting aside the canals, the draining of the lakes, and the defensive works,... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 654 pages
...scattered over the country ; smaller canals surround the fields and orchards, pastures and kitchen-gardens, serving at once as boundary wall, hedge, and road-way...canals are the arteries of Holland, and the water her life-blood. But even setting aside the canals, the draining of the lakes, and the defensive works,... | |
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... hedge, and road-way; every house is a little port. Ships, boats, rafts, move about in all directions, as in other places carts and carriages. The canals are the arteries of Holland, and the water her life-blood. 
