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...quiver on the air like sleepy lakes; the plain is engulphed up to the high ridges of the distant Southern mountain range, which lie stretched to a fai... ... gulf the full sunlight, as if darting on a jewel in the deeps, seizes the blue-green lake with its isles. The villages along the darkly- wooded borde... ...an beauty. The head was long, like a hawk’s, not too lean, and not sharply ridged from a rapacious beak, but enough to show characteristics of ea- ger... ...show characteristics of ea- gerness and promptitude. His eyes were darkest blue, the 5 George Meredith eyebrows and long disjoining eyelashes being v... ...he forehead above them: and on both sides of the head there ran a pregnant ridge, such as will sometimes lift men a deplorable half inch above the ear... ...hey went, and we gave fifteen true men for one poor devil of a curst tight blue-leg. They can play the game on if we give them odds like that. Milan b... ..., mother,’ and slept again fast. Giacinta saw that they were nearer to the mountains. Mountain-shad- ows were thrown out, and long lank shadows of cyp... ... wavings of hands, she was driven out of his sight. CHAPTER XXV ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AFTER PARTING from Vittoria, Angelo made his way to an inn, where... ...ned; ‘they have gone on to Bormio, and expect to catch her there or in the mountains.’ ‘Better there than in the mountains, my dear; don’t you think s...

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...for her, were she daughter of the King of France, since he was King of the Mountains. The welcome at Algiers and the Te Deum in the Consul’s chapel al... ...gold lace. He had a rich laced cravat, a double-breasted waistcoat of pale blue satin, and breeches to match, a brown velvet coat with blue embroi- de... ...more in accordance with her surname, and so especially were the large deep blue eyes with the long dark 9 Yo n g e lashes and pencilled brows. And th... ... effective than those of her maids. She was in her robe de chambre, a dark blue wrapper, embroidered with white, and put on more neatly than was alway... ...l would be well!’ replied the other lady; ‘but we have to pass through the mountains, and the Catalans are always ill-af- fected to us French.’ ‘Nay; ... ...ma. I will pray that He may make me so.’ Land was in sight at last. Purple mountains rose to the south in wild forms, looking strangely thunderous and... ...hen at about five o’clock. There was certainly a prom- ontory, made by the ridge of a hill, and also a river between him and any survivors there might...

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...r shoot, nor bud anew from the day on which it left its parent stem upon the mountains—for the axe stripped it of leaf and bark, and now the sons of t... ...ails aloft. As the sail bellied with the wind the ship flew through the deep blue water, and the foam hissed against her bows as she sped onward. When... ...here she found the mighty son of Sat urn sitting all alone upon its topmost ridges. She sat herself down before him, and with her left hand seized hi... ...iad – Book V 81 found the son of Saturn sitting all alone on the top most ridges of Olympus. There Juno stayed her horses, and spoke to Jove the so... ... like some fierce tempest that swoops down upon the sea, and lashes its deep blue waters into fury . What, then is the full tale of those whom Hector ... ...urderous Mars. These stood before the gates like two high oak trees upon the mountains, that tower from their wide spreading roots, and year after yea... ...rushed outside and fought in front of the gates like two wild boars upon the mountains that abide the attack of men and dogs, The Iliad – Book XII 18... ...nd man on man; so close were they that the horse hair plumes on the gleaming ridges of their helmets touched each other as they bent their heads. In f...

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...elet of the fifteenth century, the brocaded coat of the eighteenth, or the blue frock and white dimity waistcoat of the present day. [Alas! that attir... ...ge, by means of a tie which Sir Everard held as sacred as either Garter or Blue Mantle, Providence seemed to have granted to him the very object best ... ...ally approached the Highlands of Perthshire, which at first had appeared a blue outline in the horizon, but now swelled into huge gigantic masses, whi... ...common field, where the joint labour of the villagers cultivated alternate ridges and patches of rye, oats, barley, and peas, each of such minute exte... ...h a profu- sion of hair of paley gold, and a skin like the snow of her own mountains in whiteness. Yet she had not a pallid or pensive cast of counten... ...d there was nothing to interrupt the view until the scene was bounded by a ridge of distant and blue hills, which formed the southern boundary of the ... ...afety an excursion into the neighbouring Highlands, whose dusky barrier of mountains had already excited his wish to penetrate beyond them. The Baron ... ...d Edward to accompany him on a short walk of ten or fifteen miles into the mountains, and see the place where the cattle were conveyed to; adding, ‘If... ...y found by no means unpleasant. For many hours after sunrise, the mountain ridges and passes retained their ordinary appearance of silence and solitud...

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...states, Transylvania, Moldavia, and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe. I was n... ... sleeping soundly then. I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of por ridge of maize flour which they said was “ mamaliga”, and egg plant stuff... ...em and bringing out all the glorious colours of this beau tiful range, deep blue and purple in the shadows of the peaks, green and brown where grass ... ...here the snowy peaks rose grandly. Here and there seemed mighty rifts in the mountains, through which, as the sun began to sink, we saw now and again ... ...to hold on. The road grew more level, and we appeared to fly along. Then the mountains seemed to come nearer to us on each side and to frown down upon... ...arkness. Chapter 1 17 Suddenly, away on our left I saw a faint flickering blue flame. The driver saw it at the same moment. He at once checked the... ...s around us I could watch the driver’s motions. He went rapidly to where the blue flame arose, it must have been very faint, for it did not seem to il... ... note of his capture by making nailmarks on the edge of the door between the ridges of padding. When he saw me, he came over and apologized for his ba... ...ne, rising at first almost straight and then sloping back above two bumps or ridges wide apart, such a forehead that the reddish hair cannot possibly ...

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...y, the lovers of fiction would not have so *Though forests still crown the mountains of Otsego, the bear, the wolf, and the panther are nearly strange... ...les, or, to speak with greater deference to geographical defi- nitions, of mountains and valleys. It is among these hills that the Delaware takes its ... ...ir streams, they form one of the proudest rivers of the United States. The mountains are generally arable to the tops, although instances are not want... ...om the mass of snow that covered the earth, floated in a sky of the purest blue. The road wound along the brow of a precipice, and on one side was uph... ...en part of a fine, manly face, and particularly a pair of expressive large blue eyes, that promised extraordinary intellect, covert humor, and great b... ...d four different colors were laid on by his own hands. The first was a sky-blue, in the vain expectation that the eye might be cheated into the belief... ...e other hills. But the place I mean is next to the river, where one of the ridges juts out a little from the rest, and where the rocks fall, for the b... ...pitously in front of the terrace, and the approach by its sides, under the ridge of the rocks, was difficult and a little dangerous. The whole was wil...

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... his heart was complete. It was one of those spacious farmhouses, with high ridged but lowly sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the f... ...ings and yel low tipt tail and its little monteiro cap of feathers; and the blue jay, that noisy coxcomb, in his gay light blue coat and white underc... ... Washington Irving 19 and there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shallow of the distant mountain. A few amber clouds floated in the s... ...int, changing gradually into a pure apple green, and from that into the deep blue of the mid heaven. A slanting ray lingered on the woody crests of t... ...m the com fortable quarters in which he was soundly sleeping, dream ing of mountains of corn and oats, and whole valleys of timo thy and clover. ... ...ipping on one side, sometimes on an other, and sometimes jolted on the high ridge of his horse’s backbone, with a violence that he verily feared woul...

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...riter. Mr. Kipling had made his astonishing advent with a series of little blue-grey books, whose covers opened like window-shutters to reveal the dus... ...ott Watson, George Moore, Grant Allen, George Egerton, Henry Harland, Pett Ridge, W . W . Jacobs (who alone seems inexhaustible). I dare say I could r... ...rk; beyond in the roadway a gas-lamp burnt, bright orange against the hazy blue of the evening. Farther were the three lights of the rail- way signal ... ...inder-made byway that pres- ently opened out the prospect of the valley. A blue haze, half dust, half mist, touched the long valley with mystery. Beyo... ...se to the beach. Far beyond, dim and almost cloudlike in texture, rose the mountains, like suddenly frozen waves. The sea was still save for an almost... ...e suddenness. The rounded bodies fell apart as he came into sight over the ridge, and displayed the pinkish object to be the partially devoured body o... ... behold! the tentacles of their leader were already pouring over the rocky ridge on which he had just been standing! At that he shouted again, but thi... ...- edented. In Manitoba was a thaw and devastating floods. And upon all the mountains of the earth the snow and ice began to melt that night, and all t... ...d, and seeming indeed to hang in the blue, were the snow-clad sum- mits of mountains—that grew larger and bolder to the north- westward as the sides o...

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...to set a crown of distinction on her head. Her brow was clear and ample, her blue eyes cloudless, and her lips and the mould ing of her face so expre... ...nd wondrous scenes which surrounded our Swiss home—the sublime shapes of the mountains, the changes of the seasons, tempest and calm, the silence of w... ...ssed a most violent and terrible thun derstorm. It advanced from behind the mountains of Jura, and the thunder burst at once with frightful loudness... ...cept the growth of our dear children, has taken place since you left us. The blue lake and snow clad mountains they never change; and I think our... ...ar children, has taken place since you left us. The blue lake and snow clad mountains they never change; and I think our placid home and our cont... ...m. I wish you could see him; he is very tall of his age, with sweet laughing blue eyes, dark eye lashes, and curling hair. When he smiles, two littl... ...ist in the ice caves of the glaciers and hide himself from pursuit among the ridges of inaccessible precipices was a being possessing faculties it wou...

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...nst his and what not. Whereas, heaven knows that if I could get out of the mountains of wiglomeration on which my unfortunate name has been so long be... ... with crushing effect before Parliamentary committees, as in the following blue minutes of a distinguished attorney’s evi dence. “Question (number f... ... “up” for the long vacation. Mr. Vholes, and his young client, and several blue bags hastily stuffed out of all regularity of form, as the larger sort... ...t Saint Clare and Saint Summerson day. You must see my daughters. I have a blue eyed daughter who is my Beauty daughter, I have a Sentiment daughter, ... ...t it!” The crystallized snow was in his eyelashes, in his hair, ly ing in ridges on his dress. He had to shake it from his face and get his breath be... ...wrenched into eccentric and perverse forms as separate parts of machinery; mountains of it broken up, and rusty in its age; distant furnaces of it glo... ...o the line of Morgan ap Kerrig, no, not for the weight in gold of all the mountains in Wales!” Bleak House – Volume Two 372 He stopped to kiss me o...

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... injunctions, affidavits, issues, references to masters, masters’ reports, mountains of costly nonsense, piled before them. Well may the court be dim,... ...er, when he was counsel at the bar. Good things have been said about it by blue nosed, bulbous shoed old benchers in select port wine committee after ... ... dexterously vanished. Everybody else quickly van ishes too. A battery of blue bags is loaded with heavy charges of papers and carried off by clerks;... ...hair and whiskers, his fine shirt frill, his pure white waistcoat, and his blue coat with bright buttons always buttoned. He is ceremonious, stately, ... ...at the garden gate and gone away to the remot est summits of the Himalaya Mountains sooner than I would have presented myself at this unseasonable ho... ...oyal family. He appeared to have passed his life in always getting up into mountains and fighting some 239 Bleak House – Dickens body; and a bard wh... ...l and utterly brainless ass!” 246 Bleak House – Dickens Our coming to the ridge of a hill we had been ascending enabled our friend to point out Chesn... ...t it!” The crystallized snow was in his eyelashes, in his hair, ly ing in ridges on his dress. He had to shake it from his face and get his breath be...

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...y puffs between the Tower and the Custom House, encountered it to whip and ridge the flood against descending tug and long tail of stern-ajerk empty b... ...nd rolls of brown smoke there, variously undulated, curved to vanish; cold blue sky ashift with the whirl and dash of a very Tartar cavalry of cloud o... ...loud-king, after a day of wild in- vasion, sits him on his restful bank of bluefish smack-o’-cheek red above Whitechapel, to spy where his last puff o... ...man visage upon them is not roughened, as at midday, by those knotted hard ridges of the scrambler’s hand seen from forehead down to jaw; when in- dee... ...72 One of Our Conquerors The strip of white cloud flew on a whirl from the blue, to confirm it. But Victor and Lady Grace rejected any play of conceit... ...ps, the head of it shooting aloft as the blown bil- low, high off a broken ridge, and wide-armed in its pure white shroud beneath; tranced, but all mo... ...d to pros- perity, and Fenellan in it, previously an untutored rill of the mountains, if ever was one. Useless to be dwelling on holiday pictures: Lak... ...wide awake. “What ‘s Fredi thinking of?”— ”I’m thinking of the tops of the mountains at night, dada.”— She could climb them now; she has the legs.’ Na... ...ightshirt with the frill, astonishes me most:—”thinking of the tops of the mountains at night!” She has positively done the whole of this work-main pa...

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... the edge of a copse a waggon with two horses was rolling gently along the ridge. Raised above our heads upon the sky-line, it loomed up against the r... ...a heroic uncouthness. The end of his carter’s whip quivered high up in the blue. Kennedy discoursed. “She’s the eldest of a large family. At the age o... ...eror of America. The fathers hung about the door, but the young men of the mountains would crowd up to the table asking many questions, for there was ... ...e did not go mad. He didn’t know where he was. Somewhere very far from his mountains—somewhere over the water. Was this America, he wondered? “If it h... ...mal tunes. Many times have I heard his high- pitched voice from behind the ridge of some sloping sheep- 23 Joseph Conrad walk, a voice light and soar... ...e doorstep crooning to it a song such as the mothers sing to babies in his mountains. She seemed to think he was doing it some harm. Women are funny. ...

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...er desire to be on better terms with all my friends than now, when distant mountains rise, once more, in my path. For I need not hesi tate to avow, t... ...eir harness, and looking as if they thought (no doubt they do) their great blue woolly furniture, of immense weight and thickness, with a pair of grot... ... there is the Diligence, twice or thrice a day; with the dusty outsides in blue frocks, like butchers; and the in sides in white nightcaps; and its c... ...ce passengers staring out of window, with beards down to their waists, and blue spectacles awfully shading their warlike eyes, and very big sticks cle... ...down. Firewood is kept in halls where costly treasures might be heaped up, mountains high; waterfalls are dry and choked; fountains, too dull to play,... ...cing streams, and dotted with fresh clumps of graceful trees! Those purple mountains lay on the horizon, then, for certain; and the dresses of these p... ...lost in the blue sky, the Alps, stupendously con fused in lofty peaks and ridges, clouds and snow, were tow ering in our path. Still, we continued t...

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...psley was an estate of nearly twelve hundred acres, ex- tending across the ridge of the hills to the slopes North and South. Seven counties rolled the... ... scrupulousness 48 Diana of the Crossways in his calculating faculty, the blue back of a coach. He declined the vacated place beside Sir Lukin, promi... ...in junction, to the corner of clay and chalk; all the length of the wooded ridge he had reminders of her presence and his priceless chances: and still... ... colder for the unparticipating northern eyes; eyes of that half cloud and blue, which make a kind of hueless grey, and are chiefly strik- ing in an a... ... to be dull if he might shine; and her talk of her husband in her friend’s blue-chamber boudoir of the golden stars, where they had discussed the worl... ...of daylight and a moon to rise. ‘She has often pointed out to me from your ridges where The Crossways lies, about three miles from the Downs, near a v... ...ve to endure. They are really trifles, and I should once have thought them mountains!’ 114 Diana of the Crossways For the moment Diana stipulated tha... ...EATS OF A MIDNIGHT BELL, AND OF A SCENE OF EARLY MORNING ON A ROUND of the mountains rising from Osteno, South eastward of Lugano, the Esquart party r...

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... feet they are sore, and my limbs they are weary; Long is the way, and the mountains are wild; Soon will the twilight close moonless and dreary Over t... ...na!” cried the fervent Abbot. “Little darling!—with her long curls and her blue eyes, and such a sweet colour as she has; just as if she were painted!... ...t experiencing afterwards the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction. A ridge of lighted heath, alive, glancing, devouring, would have been a meet ... ... a meet emblem of my mind when I accused and men- aced Mrs. Reed: the same ridge, black and blasted after the flames are dead, would have represented ... ...s of skeletons. April advanced to May: a bright serene May it was; days of blue sky, placid sunshine, and soft western or southern gales filled up its... ...horizon. My eye passed all other objects to rest on those most remote, the blue peaks; it was those I longed to surmount; all within their boundary of... ... that brow; then followed, naturally, a well-defined nose, with a straight ridge and full nostrils; then a flexible-looking mouth, by no means narrow;... ...o warm herself: what will she do for a fire?” “Fire rises out of the lunar mountains: when she is cold, I’ll carry her up to a peak, and lay her down ... ...n in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, and felt the tor- rent come: to rise I had no will, to flee I ha...

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...hia, the nurse of men; seeing there lieth between us long space of shadowy mountains and sounding sea; but thee, thou shameless one, followed we hithe... ... the far sounding voice sitting apart from all on the topmost peak of many ridged Olympus. So she sat before his face and with her left hand clasped h... ...dwelt in Hyria and rocky Aulis and Schoinos and Skolos and Eteonos full of ridges, Thespeia and Graia and Mykalessos with wide lawns; and that dwelt a... ...drew his silver studded sword, and lifted up his hand and smote the helmet ridge; but the sword shattered upon it into three, yea four, and fell from ... ...the earth streamed with blood. As when two winter tor rents flow down the mountains to a watersmeet and join their furious flood within the ravine fr... ...m face to face. Thrice doubted he in heart and soul, and thrice from Ida’s mountains thun dered Zeus the lord of counsel, and gave to the Trojans a s... ...e company of the gods, overcome by the force of our hands.” Thus spake the blue haired god, and led the way to the 249 The Iliad of Homer mounded wal...

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...lls vague room that is the background of so many good por- traits, a great blue-coated figure with a soft voice and rather tired eyes, explaining very... ...over every cat he saw upon the road, I talked to de T essin about this big blue-coated figure of Joffre, which is not so much a figure as a great gene... ...d-rusted wire, with the silken shiver of passing shells in the air and the blue of the lower sky con- tinually breaking out into eddying white puffs, ... ...ear, and Italy is the most fortunate land in the world for road metal; her mountains are solid road metal, and in this Venetian plain you need but to ... ... which was Monfalcone, now in Italian hands. Behind Monfalcone ran the red ridge of the Carso, of which the Italians had just captured the east- ern h... ... Italians had just captured the east- ern half. Behind this again rose the mountains to the east of the Isonzo which the Austrians still held. The Iso... ...which the Austrians still held. The Isonzo came towards me from out of the mountains, in a great westward curve. Fifteen or sixteen miles away where i...

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...int notes of the band were the only human sounds audible within the rim of blue hills. II T he village of Marlott lay amid the north eastern undulatio... ...brown and the springs never dry, is bounded on the south by the bold chalk ridge that em braces the prominences of Hambledon Hill, Bulbarrow, Nettlec... ...stings or genuflections; but the weakness of Sir John’s consti tution made mountains of his petty sins in this kind. On reaching the fresh air he was ... ...he innocently looked down at the roses in her bosom, that there behind the blue narcotic haze was potentially the ‘tragic mischief’ of her drama — one... ...d the first hills the cliff like dwellings of Shaston broke the line of the ridge. Nobody was visible in the elevated road which skirted the ascent sav... ...ne September evening, just before sunset, when yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hair like lines, and the atmosphere itself forms a prospect ... ...ak, and the yellow luminosity upon the horizon behind her back lighted the ridge towards which her face was set — the barrier of the vale wherein she ... ...ou are she. But you may well despise me now! I thought I worshipped on the mountains, but I find I still serve in the groves! Ha! ha!’ ‘O Alec d’Urberv...

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...ng on a pile of half-dead fish, looking at a broad human back clothed in a blue jersey. “It’s no good,” thought the boy. “I’m dead, sure enough, and t... ...er into a glassy pit beyond. But this mountain- climbing did not interrupt blue-jersey’ s talk. “Fine good job, I say , that I catch you. Eh, wha-at? ... ...ith a flat red face and a pair of twinkling gray eyes. He was dressed in a blue jersey and high rubber boots. Several pairs of the same sort of foot-w... ...hat she could avoid smash- ing against the schooner’ s side, slid over the ridge, and was swallowed up in the damp dusk. “Take ahold here, an’ keep ri... ...ut fifty ton, I guess, – the Rupert, – he run her over to Greenland’ s icy mountains the year ha’ af our fleet was tryin’ alter cod there. An’ what’s ... ...out half the stars. Now scaur and ravine changed and rolled back to jagged mountains on the horizon’ s edge, and now broke into hills lower and lower,... ... syndicates, all for their enduring good; crawled round, through, or under mountains and ravines, dragging a string and hoop-iron railroad after him, ...