A greatcoat cannot be endured, and without a greatcoat who can endure a May wind and live?
But of all months it is the prettiest.

The grasses are then the greenest, and the young foliage of the trees, while it has all the glory and all the colour of spring vegetation, does not hide the form of the branches as do the heavy masses of the larger leaves which come in the advancing summer.

And of all villas near London The Horns was the sweetest.

The broad green lawn swept down to the very margin of the Thames, which absolutely washed the fringe of grass when the tide was high.

And here, along the bank, was a row of flowering ashes, the drooping boughs of which in places touched the water.