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From the book:The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell. Peat-cutters on Blackdown and fishers upon the Exe heard the distant throbbing rising and falling upon the sultry summer air. It was a common sound in those parts - as common as the chatter of the jays and the booming of the bittern. Yet the fishers and the peasants raised their heads and looked questions at each other, for the angelus had already gone and vespers was still far off. Why should the great bell of Beaulieu toll when the shadows were neither short nor long? All round the Abbey the monks were trooping in. Under the long green-paved avenues of gnarled oaks and of lichened beeches the white-robed brothers gathered to the sound. From the vine-yard and the vine-press, from the bouvary or ox-farm, from the marl-pits and salterns, even from the distant iron-works of Sowley and the outlying grange of St.Leonard's, they had all turned their steps home-wards
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Archers, British, Classic Literature, Fiction, Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453, Knights and knighthood, Middle Ages, Fiction, war & military, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Hundred years' war, 1339-1453, fiction, English literature, Medieval Civilization, Medieval Military history, Fifteenth century, Children's fiction, Knights and knighthood, fiction, Middle ages, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, generalShowing 11 featured editions. View all 463 editions?
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La compagnie blanche
March 28, 2001, Phébus
Mass Market Paperback
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2859407235 9782859407230
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