The Promise of Country Life: Descriptions, Narrations Without Plot, Short StoriesJames Cloyd Bowman D.C. Heath & Company, 1916 - 303 страници |
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... eyes of animals we had known , the memory of sun and moon and star long lost in the glare of electric lights , began to call . " In the one , the effect produced is that of the crowded arti- ficiality of the city . The harshness of the ...
... eyes of animals we had known , the memory of sun and moon and star long lost in the glare of electric lights , began to call . " In the one , the effect produced is that of the crowded arti- ficiality of the city . The harshness of the ...
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... eyes and combs . They listened to offers , adhered to their prices , short of speech and impressive of face ; or else , suddenly deciding to accept the lower price offered , they would call out to the customer as he walked slowly away ...
... eyes and combs . They listened to offers , adhered to their prices , short of speech and impressive of face ; or else , suddenly deciding to accept the lower price offered , they would call out to the customer as he walked slowly away ...
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... eyes . The look has a hint of humorous criticism behind the screen of a life's habit of reserve , with the little backward jerk of the head , and the " Mornin ' ! " the formal salute demanded by manners and committing no man . But if ...
... eyes . The look has a hint of humorous criticism behind the screen of a life's habit of reserve , with the little backward jerk of the head , and the " Mornin ' ! " the formal salute demanded by manners and committing no man . But if ...
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... eyes behind long black lashes , a mischievously quirked mouth to match the eyes , and black hair banged straight , both front and behind , in almost medieval fashion , twirked a pair of brown bare legs all about us . Another light ...
... eyes behind long black lashes , a mischievously quirked mouth to match the eyes , and black hair banged straight , both front and behind , in almost medieval fashion , twirked a pair of brown bare legs all about us . Another light ...
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... eyes , but worn down to the first principles of pioneer bone and gristle by toil , care , and the bearing of children . I spoke to her in French , complimenting her on the appearance of the place . She was genuinely pleased , saying in ...
... eyes , but worn down to the first principles of pioneer bone and gristle by toil , care , and the bearing of children . I spoke to her in French , complimenting her on the appearance of the place . She was genuinely pleased , saying in ...
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Страница 296 - ... looking more narrowly, perceived that it was a place where the tree had been scathed by lightning, and the white wood laid bare. Suddenly he heard a groan. His teeth chattered, and his knees smote against the saddle. It was but the rubbing of one huge bough upon another, as they were swayed about by the breeze. He passed the tree in safety, but new perils lay before him.
Страница 279 - Hard by the farmhouse was a vast barn, that might have served for a church, every window and crevice of which seemed bursting forth with the treasures of the farm...
Страница 278 - ... a coquette, as might be perceived even in her dress, which was a mixture of ancient and modern fashions, as most suited to set off her .charms. She wore the ornaments of pure yellow gold which her great-greatgrandmother had brought over from Saardam, the tempting stomacher of the olden time, and withal a provokingly short petticoat to display the prettiest foot and ankle in the country round.
Страница 52 - In the midst of a gentle rain while these thoughts prevailed, I was suddenly sensible of such sweet and beneficent society in Nature, in the very pattering of the drops, and in every sound and sight around my house, an infinite and unaccountable friendliness all at once like an atmosphere sustaining me, as made the fancied advantages of human neighborhood insignificant, and I have never thought of them since.
Страница 295 - Hudson ; but it was so vague and faint as only to give an idea of his distance from this faithful companion of man. Now and then, too, the long-drawn crowing of a cock, accidentally awakened, would sound far, far off, from some farm-house away among the hills — but it was like a dreaming sound in his ear. No...
Страница 297 - Gunpowder, who dashed forwards, snuffling and snorting, but came to a stand just by the bridge, with a suddenness that had nearly sent his rider sprawling over his head. Just at this moment a plashy tramp by the side of the bridge caught the sensitive ear of Ichabod. In the dark shadow of the grove, en the margin of the brook, he beheld something huge, misshapen, black and towering.
Страница 142 - haunted Woodhouselee;" and as daybreak came sweeping up the bleak Lammermuirs, and fell on his own door, the company would stop, and James would take the key, and lift Ailie up again, laying her on her owri bed, and, having put Jess up, would return with Rab and shut the door.
Страница 279 - ... the air. A stately squadron of snowy geese were riding in an adjoining pond, convoying whole fleets of ducks ; regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farmyard, and guinea fowls fretting about it like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish, discontented cry. Before the barn door strutted the gallant cock, that pattern of a husband, a warrior, and a fine gentleman ; clapping his burnished wings and crowing in the pride and gladness of his heart...
Страница 274 - From hence the low murmur of his pupils* voices, conning over their lessons, might be heard of a drowsy summer's day, like the hum of a beehive; interrupted now and then by the authoritative voice of the master, in the tone of menace or command; or, peradventure, by the appalling sound of the birch, as he urged some tardy loiterer along the flowery path of knowledge. Truth to say, he was a conscientious man, that ever bore in mind the golden maxim, "Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Страница 70 - Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof ; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature.