The Promise of Country Life: Descriptions, Narrations Without Plot, Short StoriesJames Cloyd Bowman D.C. Heath & Company, 1916 - 303 من الصفحات |
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... French of the North have never been great fighters nor great hunters , in the terms of Anglo - Saxon frontiersmen , but they have laughed in farther places . ON THE SITUATION , FEELINGS , AND PLEASURES , OF 14 STEWART EDWARD WHITE.
... French of the North have never been great fighters nor great hunters , in the terms of Anglo - Saxon frontiersmen , but they have laughed in farther places . ON THE SITUATION , FEELINGS , AND PLEASURES , OF 14 STEWART EDWARD WHITE.
الصفحة 45
... laughed the first laugh I had heard for a month - and it sounded strange to my own ears . Surely that was not the expression of merriment I indulged in among my fellow - men , I thought ; it sounded hollow and unnatural . Twice after ...
... laughed the first laugh I had heard for a month - and it sounded strange to my own ears . Surely that was not the expression of merriment I indulged in among my fellow - men , I thought ; it sounded hollow and unnatural . Twice after ...
الصفحة 46
... laughed aloud . " How , " I argued , " could I be reasoning out the matter in this sober fashion if I were insane ? And yet , perhaps , it was my particular form of insanity to im- agine myself insane . " And so one foolish idea led to ...
... laughed aloud . " How , " I argued , " could I be reasoning out the matter in this sober fashion if I were insane ? And yet , perhaps , it was my particular form of insanity to im- agine myself insane . " And so one foolish idea led to ...
الصفحة 158
... laughed and crowed . The old mother could not take her dim eyes off the face of her son , but sat smiling at him as he ate and rattled on . When he rose from the table at last , after eating heartily and praising it all , he said , with ...
... laughed and crowed . The old mother could not take her dim eyes off the face of her son , but sat smiling at him as he ate and rattled on . When he rose from the table at last , after eating heartily and praising it all , he said , with ...
الصفحة 159
... laughed , as he looked around at the boy , who was eyeing the tennis suit with a devour- ing gaze . Grant was studying him , too , but not in admiration . " I shouldn't say you had , " said the old man , tugging at the forkful ...
... laughed , as he looked around at the boy , who was eyeing the tennis suit with a devour- ing gaze . Grant was studying him , too , but not in admiration . " I shouldn't say you had , " said the old man , tugging at the forkful ...
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ain't asked Baltus Van Tassel barn Bashkirs beautiful began birds C. E. Brock called CORRA HARRIS dark dessyatins door dream eyes face farm farmer feel feet fields girl Goderville Grant grass gray green Hamlin Garland hand head heard heart hemp hills Holbrooke Hope horse Howard Ichabod Ichabod Crane land laughed leaves light live looked Lyddy Marjory Master Hauchecorne melancholy crane mind Morgan County morning mother neighbors never night Pakhom passed pause Pawnees peasant Pine Pinkham red squirrel road round seemed side silence sleep Sleepy Hollow smile sooty terns sound spring squirrel stood story suddenly talk tarantass tell things Thord thought took trees turned valley versts voice wagons Walden Pond walked wife wild wind woman women woods young
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.