56 Results for : beeches
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The Country Child , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 505min
The dark wood was green and gold - green where the oak trees stood crowded together with misshapen, twisted trunks, red-gold where the great smooth beeches lifted their branching arms to the sky. In between jostled silver birches - olive-tinted fountains which never reached the light-black spruces with little pale candles on each tip - and nut trees smothered to the neck in dense bracken. The bracken was a forest in itself, a curving verdant flood of branches, transparent as water by the path but thick, heavy, secret a foot or two away, where high ferny crests waved above the softly moving ferns, just as the beech tops flaunted above the rest of the wood. The rabbits which crept quietly in and out reared on their hind legs to see who was going by. They pricked their ears and stood erect and then dropped silently on soft paws and disappeared into the close ranks of brown stems when they saw the child. She walked along the rough path, casting fearful glances to right and left. She never ran, even in moments of greatest terror, when things seemed very near, for then they would know she was afraid and close round her. Gossamer stretched across the way from nut bush to bracken frond and clung to her cold cheeks. Spilt acorns and beech mast Iay thick on the ground, green and brown patterns in the upside-down red leaves, which made a carpet. Heavy rains had swept the soil to the lower levels of the path and laid bare the rock in many places. On a sandy patch she saw her own footprint, a little square toe and a horseshoe where the iron heel had sunk. That was in the morning, when all was fresh and fair. It cheered her to see the homely mark, and she stayed a moment to look at it and replace her foot in it, as Robinson Crusoe might have done. A squirrel, rippling along a leafy bough, peered at her and then, finding her so still, ran down the tree trunk and along the ground. Her step was strangely silent, and a close observer would have seen tha ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jilly Bond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/020550/bk_adbl_020550_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Enigma in the Redlands - Inspired by The Adventure of the Copper Beeches by Arthur Conan Doyle (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes IV)
Enigma in the Redlands - Inspired by The Adventure of the Copper Beeches by Arthur Conan Doyle (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes IV): ab 1.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Adventure of the Copper Beeches
Adventure of the Copper Beeches: ab 2.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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El Misterio De Copper Beeches
El Misterio De Copper Beeches - (Los Misterios De Sherlock Holmes 12): ab 1.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Adventure of the Copper Beeches
Adventure of the Copper Beeches: ab 6.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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The Sherlock Holmes Vault Collection
The Sherlock Holmes Vault CollectionFour Classic Mysteries, all beautifully restored, with exclusive special features make this Vault Collection a must for any Sherlockian.What's InsideDisc 1The Fatal Hour (1931) featuring Arthur WontnerEssay by Don StradleyCommentary Track with Jennifer ChurchillThe Adventures of Sam Sherman: Part One featuretteRecreated Sherlock Holmes Radio BroadcastA Black Sherlock Holmes (1918) cut bonus shortA Black Sherlock Holmes (1918) uncut bonus shortBaffled (1900)Disc 2The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935) featuring Arthur WontnerEssay by Jason A. NeyCommentary Track w/ Jason A. NeyThe Adventures of Sam Sherman: Part Two featuretteThe Copper Beeches (1912)Blind Man's Bluff, TV episode (1954)Disc 3Silver Blaze (1937) featuring Arthur WontnerEssay by Don StradleyCommentary Track w/ Phoef Sutton & Jordan LeganThe Adventures of Sam Sherman: Part Three featuretteSure Luck Holmes, Felix the Cat cartoonCousins of Sherlocko (1913)Disc 4A Study in Scarlet (1933) featuring Reginald OwenEssay by C. Courtney JoynerCommentary Track w/ Peter Atkins & David BreckmanElementary Cinema, an original production by Ballyhoo Motion PicturesSlick Sleuths, Mutt & Jeff cartoon- Shop: odax
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