Items matching winter

They knelt on the seat, and fired deliberately

It’s winter, and the horses are pulling the sleigh over the snow and through the forest, with wolves in hot pursuit. The young pepole (teens?) in the back are firing thri rifles at the wolves. “Annie [...]

Keywords: horses, carts, people, guns, wolves, winter, snow, trees, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-11-16

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Snow in Town

The title for this poem show a boy gathering a snowball, and some houses with roofs covered in snow, and an old-fashioned lamp-post. Nothing is quite so quiet and clean     As snow that falls in the [...]

Keywords: winter, snow, poetry, christmas, illustrations for children

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-17

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December

(page 1543)An old tonsured man wearing a monk’s robe and a gown is supping lustily from a giant bowl of liquid. He rides a goat, representing the lasciviousness of the festivals at December.A poem un [...]

Keywords: people, bowls, winter, animals, goats, monks, calendars, months, december, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-09

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January

(page 2; there is one of these for each month)A mean wearing warm boots, coat and hat walks through the snow, blowing on his hands to warm them, and is accompanied by a dog. The rooves of a nearby far [...]

Keywords: snow, animals, dogs, people, winter, months, calendars, january

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-16

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Howsham Hall.

A man on a horse, with a gun and hunting-dogs, approaching a country manor-house over snow. It looks like a storm is coming. There are ancient trees here. The text accompanying this is as follows: H [...]

Keywords: manors, snow, people, trees, dogs, winter, colour, christmas

Places shown: Malton; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2007-02-15

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The Robin’s Christmas Carol

A robin redbreast sits on a sprig of holly and sings. The holly has berries. In the background is a winter scene with a snow-covered house. “A little robin sweetly singing    Came to my window on a C [...]

Keywords: christmas, birds, snow, winter

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-12-14

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In Single File

Three ladies skating on ice one after the other, holding on to a pole. They are Dutch, and have the clogs to prove it.

Keywords: people, winter, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-12-18

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Sleighing

A driver and two passengers (a man and a woman) ride a horse-driven sleigh over the ice. The image, which is printed using a dot-screen method to simulate gray, is signed Davey, and also (I think) Car [...]

Keywords: winter, christmas, people, horses, animals

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-10-10

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