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...wall, with gestures fantastic, Darted his own huge shadow, and vanished away into darkness. * * • Fragments of song the old man sang, and carols of...Norman orchards and bright Burgundian vineyards." A venerable old man is thus described — " Bent like a laboring oar, that toils in the surf of the...

...with gestures fantastic, Darted his own huge shadow, and vanished away into darkness. Faces clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his arm-chair, Laughed...flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Fragments of son^ the old man sang, and carols of Christinas, Such as at home, in the olden time, his fathers before...

...with gestures fantastic, Darted his own huge shadow, and vanished away into darkness. Faces clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his arm-chair, Laughed...dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields nf armies ihe sunshine !" Here is a piece of singularly good description quite ruined, as far as regards...

...mode of treatment. He is quoting the description of the farmer's cozy kitchen." It ends thus : — And the pewter plates on the dresser, Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. " Here," says the author, " is a piece of singularly good description quite ruined, as far as regards...

...into darkness. Faces clumsily carved in oak, on the back of bis arm-chair, Laughed in the nickering light ; and the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, ai shields of armies the sunshine f Here is a piece of singularly good description quite ruined, as...

...with gestures fantastic, Darted his own huge shadow, and vanished away into darkness. Faces, clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his arm-chair Laughed in the flickering light, and the pewtei plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Fragments...

...evening dimly revealing the checked woollen coverlet of the bed in one far-off corner, while in another " the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame as shields of armies the sunshine." Tradition has preserved many incidents of life in the garrisons. In times of unusual peril the settlers...

...dimly revealing the checked woollen coverlet of the bed in one far-off corner — and in another, ' the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame as shields of armies the sunshine.' "Tradition has preserved many incidents of life in the garrisons. In times of unusual peril, the settlers...

...Latighed in the flickering light, and the pewter plates on the dresser Canght and reflected the flame, äs shields of armies the sunshine. Fragments of song the old man sang, and carols of Christmas, Such äs at home, in the olden time, his fathers before him Sang in their Norman orchards and bright Burgundian...