In the distant days of my boyhood and early youth my chief delight was in nature, and when I opened a book it was to find something about nature in it, especially some expression of the feeling produced in us by nature, which was, in my case, inseparable from seeing and hearing, and was, to me, the most important thing in life.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
The wood-path the nut-tree growth all but closed over on either side she decided was safe; it could taste of nothing but his English school-boyhood, before ever she knew him.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
It was the first time Sally had ever heard him speak of his boyhood except as a thing he had forgotten.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan