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... presented itself was “beastly.” And this afternoon, lured by the delusive blueness of a sky that was blue because the wind was in the east, he had co... ... spring buds were wilted, the sunlight metallic and the shadows mixed with blue-black ink. T o the moralist I know he might have served as a figure of... ..., to be reached only by cheap tickets at Bank Holiday times, was a sterile ridge of very clean roads and red sand pits and pines and gorse and heather... ...reen, the duck-pond, a waiting waggon, the church tower, a sleepy cat, the blue heavens, with the sizzle of the frying audible behind one! The keen sm... ..., and then her eyes lifted to the slanting outhouse roof that went up to a ridge behind the parapet of Mantell and Throbson’s. An expression of incred... ... she said. “Stick to it!” said Mr. Polly, “live and learn,” and got to the ridge and grasped at her arm to pull her after him. “I can’t jump, mind ye,... ... sky a deep purple blue and clear and flat, looking exactly as he had seen mountains painted in pictures. He seemed trans- ported to some strange coun...

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... the wood; to the last it seemed still but a little way beyond the distant mountains. For this reason this story has been called The Research Magnific... ...d, be- fore even he reached Montana; he was afraid of the steepness of the mountains. He had to drive ten or twelve miles up and up the mountain-side,... ...teep as to terrify. At a vast distance below he saw through tree-stems and blue haze a twisted strand of bright whiteness, the river that joins the Rh... ...y, it seemed possible at any moment, the mass would fall headlong into the blue deeps below. This impending avalanche was not in my path along the Bis... ...tring of battleships, was far away to the west of us, and the endless grey-blue flats of the Thames to the north. The sun was low behind a bank of clo... ...d become hideous and threatening, the sun was a pitiless glare, each rocky ridge he clambered became more dreadful than the last, each new valley into... ...w in their cities if they will. It is in the lonely places, in jungles and mountains, in snows and fires, in the still observatories and the silent la... ...o a pretty district beset with Hartings. He had found himself upon a sandy ridge looking very beautifully into a sudden steep valley that he learnt wa...

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...rty, ragged, and tired, Ripton awoke from his dream of Farmer Blaize and a blue nose to the vivid consciousness of hunger; and this grew with the rapi... ...Pride!” shouted Richard, stung by the taunt, and set his sight hard at the blue ridges of the hills. Not knowing for the moment what else to do, Austi... ...!” shouted Richard, stung by the taunt, and set his sight hard at the blue ridges of the hills. Not knowing for the moment what else to do, Austin dre... ... went up above her, all song, to the smooth southern cloud lying along the blue: from a dewy copse dark over her nodding hat the black- bird fluted, c... ...y? ‘T rue, Madam, you may think to part Conditions by a glacier-ridge, But Beauty’s for the largest heart, And all abysses Love ... ...the empti- ness of words.” “Largest heart!” he sneered. “What’s a ‘glacier-ridge’? I’ve never seen one. I can’t deny it rhymes with ‘bridge.’ But don’... ... sails, light as sea-nymphs. A crown of deep Summer blue topped the flying mountains of cloud. By an open window that looked on the brine through nod-... ...e found London too hot for him. He quitted London to take refuge among the mountains; living there in solitary commune with a virgin Note-book. Some i... ...ave to veil the rightful appellation?” So he responded, re- mote among the mountains. She tried very hard to speak plainly. Finally he came to say tha...

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...ng through every crevice of the exquisite open fretwork, was the intensely blue sky of early autumn. The lower longer panes of the window were closed,... ... The evening began to advance, and Christina was very weary, as the purple mountains that she had long watched with a mixture of fear and hope began t... ...ding in a wide tranquil pool as if to rest after its rough course from the mountains. Above rose, like a dark wall, crag upon crag, peak on peak, in p... ...ical observances had received a Christian colouring and adaptation. In the mountains, or around the castles, it was usually very different. The electi... ...her appointments. Christina scarcely knew how she conveyed herself and her blue kirtle across the bemired stones to the next and still darker portal, ... ...e smooth water of the Debateable Ford; nay—far, far away beyond retreating ridges of wood and field—she thought she could track a silver line and, gui... ...not know. Let me see,” said Ermentrude, rising; but at the window her pale blue eyes gazed vacantly as if she did not know what she was looking at or ...

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...ugh childhood but through life, was a fair little fellow, with bright deep-blue eyes, inheriting much of his nature from her and her family , but not ... ...videntially did not lose my head, and saved myself by catching at a broken ridge of ice, rising up in the crevasse, round which I threw my leg and wor... ...o dense that I could scarcely see 30 feet before me, and the crevasses and mountains of snow loom- ing close round us looked awful. At this moment the... ...y. The most striking feature was his eyes, which were of a very dark clear blue, full of an unusually deep earnest, and so to speak, inward, yet far a... ...n or near the tropics, so that I shall have little more shivering limbs or blue hands, though I may feel in the long run the effect of a migratory swa... ...all of bamboos tied together with cocoa-nut fibre, thatched with leaves, a ridge-pole and sloping roof on either side reach- ing to the ground. No upr... ... like those formerly described, but with low wattled side walls. Along the ridge-pole were ranged twenty-seven skulls, not yet blackened with smoke, a...

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... its dome supported by twenty red porphyry Ionic columns, and illumined by blue painted win- dows. When he breakfasted or dined all the resources of t... ...head, such as one likes to see on the shoulders of a friend. His eyes were blue, his complexion rubicund, his figure almost portly and well-built, his... ... its ruined walls whereon date-trees were growing, was sighted, and on the mountains beyond were espied vast coffee-fields. Passepartout was rav- ishe... ...andallah and Pounah; and, passing Pauwell, they entered the defiles of the mountains, with their basalt bases, and their summits crowned with thick an... ... master.” The conversation fell again. During the night the train left the mountains behind, and passed Nassik, and the next day proceeded over the fl... ...d with lac and carrying two sabres hung to their waists; soldiers, clad in blue cotton with white stripes, and bearing guns; the Mikado’s guards, enve... ...rve, descending towards Bitter Creek Valley, to rise again to the dividing ridge of the waters between the Atlantic and the Pacific. There were many c... ...on’t budge.” At eleven in the morning the train had reached the divid- ing ridge of the waters at Bridger Pass, seven thousand five hundred and twenty...

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... he retire to his rest with satisfaction. Such folks, it seems to me, need mountains for neighbors, to take this emulous conceit of soaring out of the... ...ss, every spring it is like Kossuth’s rising of what he calls the peoples. Mountains, too, a regular camp-meeting of them. For the same reason, the sa... ...gh each successive floor, till, four feet square, it breaks water from the ridge-pole of the roof, like an anvil- headed whale, through the crest of a... ...loft, at my feet. Glancing up, what was my horror to see three savages, in blue jean overalls in the very act of commenc- ing the long-threatened atta...

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.......................................... 222 WINTER JOURNEY OVER THE HARTZ MOUNTAINS. ................................................................... ...e moonlight gleams In silv’ry springs. I see thee, when upon the distant ridge The dust awakes; At midnight’s hour, when on the fragile bridge T... ...one with speed of light; The evening soon the world embraced, And o’er the mountains hung the night. Soon stood, in robe of mist, the oak, A tow’ring ... ...e billows toss our bark on high, And with our oars keep time, While cloudy mountains tow’rd the sky Before our progress climb. Say, mine eye, why sink... ...ith blessings sweet are fraught! We cast our distant gaze Far in the misty blue; Here gentle love still strays, Here dwells still rapture true. Thou s... ... the mountain, and its cloudy bridge? The mule can scarcely find the misty ridge; In caverns dwells the dragon’s olden brood, The frowning crag obstru... ...e wave? The deep, deep heavens, then lure thee not,— The moist yet radiant blue,— Not thine own form,—to tempt thy lot ‘Midst this eternal dew?” The w... ...ny a gentle sigh, Till I from hence can go. And when she plucks a flow’ret blue, And says “Forget-me-not!”—I, too, Though far away, can feel it. Ay, d...

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... g e Meantime the snow had ceased—it was but a scud of early autumn on the mountains—the sun came out with bright slanting beams before his setting, t... ...hat there were some of those traitorous Lancastrian folk lurking about the mountains and fells? That rogue had the bearing of a man-at-arms, far more ... ...alf-way to Greystone. And well was it I did so, for he was scarce over the ridge when a plump of spears came in sight on the search for him, and led b... ...der and more weather-beaten; also his pilgrim’s hat for one in his pouch—a blue bonnet, more like the national Scottish head-gear, hiding the hat in t... ...knew himself as Hal the shepherd’s boy, with the sheep around him, and the blue starry sky above him. ‘Dost thou remember what thou wast called in tho... ...e him a distance of un- dulating ground, ending in the straight mysterious blue-grey line that Hob Hogward had told him was the sea. ‘Baron! Lord Clif... ...o wander away upon the moors, watch the lights and shadows on the wondrous mountains, or dream on the banks of the river, by which he could make his w...

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... as a whitish plump man, a little under the middle size and age, with such blue eyes as many Irishmen have, and agile in his movements and with a slig... ...er, a universal tongue would serve you there. While I sit here among these mountains—I have been filing away at them for this last aeon or so, just to... ...t would be pleasant for us to do so; but as we come down from these lonely mountains to the roads and houses and living places of the Utopian world- s... ...han he has suffered, and suffered rather than done. He regards me with his blue-grey eye, from which all interest in this Utopia has faded. “It is a t... ...atus, to mark unfamiliar trees and plants and flowers and beasts, to climb mountains, to see the snowy night of the North and the blaze of the tropica... ...n towards the Devil’s Bridge in the gorge be- low. Far away over the Furka ridge a pallid glow preludes the rising of the moon. Two lovers pass us whi... ... sill, the sole thing to need attention in the room, is one little bowl of blue Alpine flowers. The same exquisite simplicity meets one downstairs. Ou... ...dmark, one remote thin red triangle of iron, perhaps, in the saddle of the ridge against the sky. All this busy world that has done so much and so mar...

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...w as a lane and absolutely riotous with life. The walls of the houses were blue; the shops of the Chinamen yawned like cavernous lairs; heaps of nonde... ... without a sound of life on board, and cov- ered from stem to stern with a ridge of palm-leaf mats. He had left behind him the overheated pave- ments ... ...d, upon the level expanse, profound and glistening like the gaze of a dark-blue eye, an oblique band of stippled purple lengthened itself indefinitely... ...like full-blown blossoms on the rim of a vase; and the quiet sheet of dark-blue water, crossed by a bar of purple, made a background for the spinning ... ...ed pigmy, was taking her over the shallow water of the bar. This submarine ridge of mud, scoured by the stream out of the soft bottom of the river and... ..., the bearings of the crossing-place had to be taken from the shape of the mountains in- land. The guidance of a form flattened and uneven at the top ... ...tead of run- ning aground for half her length, the Sofala butted the sheer ridge of a stone reef which would have been awash at high water. This made ...

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...k pearls, torn from the pinna-marina of the Red Sea; green pearls, yellow, blue, and black pearls, the curious productions of the divers molluscs of e... ...led everywhere. Then by degrees, in the silurian pe- riod, the tops of the mountains began to appear, the islands emerged, then disappeared in partial... ...he back; the Japanese scombrus, a beautiful mackerel of these seas, with a blue body and silvery head; the brilliant azurors, whose name alone defies ... ...me alone defies description; some banded spares, with var- iegated fins of blue and yellow; the woodcocks of the 71 Jules Verne seas, some specimens ... ...iva, the largest of the group that belongs to France. I only saw the woody mountains against the horizon, because Cap- tain Nemo did not wish to bring... ...lf our ammunition. About eleven o’clock in the morning, the first range of mountains that form the centre of the island was tra- versed, and we had ki... ...r steps, you would preserve your equilibrium better.” Arrived at the upper ridge of the promontory, I saw a vast white plain covered with morses. They... ... rays upon the great blocks so capriciously cut; upon ev- ery angle, every ridge, every facet was thrown a different light, according to the nature of...

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...mi-circular and unroofed temple open to the ocean, with its walls of lofty mountains hung with the mourning draperies of cloud. On one side of this br... ...hadow on the sky. On the other side, what seems to be an isolated patch of blue mist floats lightly on the glare of the horizon. This is the peninsula... ...thin memory of man stand- ing up faintly upon the sky above a razor-backed ridge on the stony head. The crew of a coasting schoo- ner, lying becalmed ... ...dden wealth; and the shadow on the sky on one side with the round patch of blue haze blurring the bright skirt of the horizon on the other, mark the t... ...hore. Amongst them the white head of Higuerota rises majestically upon the blue. Bare clusters of enormous rocks sprinkle with tiny black dots the smo... ...of snow. Then, as the midday sun withdraws from the gulf the shadow of the mountains, the clouds begin to roll out of the lower valleys. They swathe i... ...) had been tolerable—even pleasant— quite tolerable. But the trip over the mountains to Sulaco was another sort of experience, in an old diligencia ov... ...head. He traversed it, entered a ravine, and climbed to the top of a steep ridge free of trees and bushes. From there, open and vague in the starlight... ...peculation. The plain had resumed its shadowy immobility. He descended the ridge and found himself in the open solitude, between the harbour and the t...

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...usly a winged Perseus (or Impro- vised Commune) has dawned out of the void Blue, and cut her loose: but whether now is it she, with her softness and m... ...ad thun- der of the knocker at some door, a Tricolor Commissioner with his blue Guards (black-guards!) arriving. All Streets are vacant, says Peltier;... ... was no mercy. Suddenly, however, one of these men steps forward. He had a blue frock coat; he seemed to be about thirty, his stature was above common... ...olled on already, between the pavement-stones which were crushed up into a ridge on each side, an uninter- rupted column of sick-wagons through the To... ... its hand. So many enemies come wending on; penetrating through throats of Mountains, steering over the salt sea; towards all points of our territory;... ...ousel; and new-born children be named Marat; and Lago-de-Como Hawkers bake mountains of stucco into unbeautiful Busts; and David paint his Pic- ture, ... ...’ Lucky, if fortified Lines of Weissembourg, and impassibilities of Vosges Mountains, con- fine it to French Alsace, keep it from submerging the very ... ...All Prisons and Houses of Arrest in French land are getting crowded to the ridge-tile: Forty-four thousand Commit- tees, like as many companies of rea... ...n land. Their one long grave is dug; they stand ranked, by the loose mould-ridge; the younger of them singing the Marseillaise. Jacobin National Guard...

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...asters Knowlt Hoheimer I WA S the first fruits of the battle of Missionary Ridge. When I felt the bullet enter my heart I wished I had staid at home a... ...ve. How great it is to write the single line: “Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, roll!” 45 Edgar Lee Masters Nancy Knapp WELL, don’t you see th... ...hought that we were married This oak tree near me is the favorite haunt Of blue jays chattering, chattering all the day. And why not? for my very dust... ... 60 Spoon River Anthology Elsa Wertman I WA S a peasant girl from Germany, Blue-eyed, rosy, happy and strong. And the first place I worked was at Thom... ...kmorton In youth my wings were strong and tireless, But I did not know the mountains. In age I knew the mountains But my weary wings could not follow ... ...s, Which was the Almighty hand of Life, Like fire at earth’s center making mountains, Or pent up waters that cut them through. Do you remember the iro... ...e thirst Of knowing about the stars. They jeered when I spoke of the lunar mountains, And the thrilling heat and cold, And the ebon valleys by silver ...

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...om Bun Hill, a great facade that glittered in the morning, and was a clear blue outline against the sky in the afternoon, and of a night, a source of ... ...gine), sailed away southward, vanished over the hills, reappeared a little blue outline far off in the east, going now very fast before a gentle south... ... in the Air E’s,” and Bert rather clung to the idea of a uniform of bright blue serge, with a lot of gold lace and cord and ornamenta- tion, rather li... ... piled in great snowy masses, so that he was half dis- posed to think them mountains; northward and eastward 49 H G Wells they were in wavelike level... ...h him far below, following him down there, indefatiga- bly, over the cloud mountains. Why should such a thing follow him? What could it be?… He had an... ... whose advance scouts had been in contact with the Japanese over the Rocky Mountains, had concentrated upon Niagara and awaited his arrival. He had re... ...s badly dam- aged. The three stays that held it rigid had snapped across a ridge of rock and there was also a strong possibility of the engine being b...

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...d Eustace Bright, whom I had not before met with since quitting the breezy mountains of Berkshire. It being the winter vacation at his college, Eustac... ...et charm in these broad meadows and gentle eminences. They are better than mountains, because they do not stamp and stereotype them 5 Hawthorne selv... ...e same strong impression, repeated day after day. A few summer weeks among mountains, a lifetime among green meadows and placid slopes, with outlines ... ...ir of pantaloons—all of which improvements I am sorry for. Squash Blossom, Blue Eye, Plantain, and Buttercup have had the scarlet fever, but came easi... ...n, Sweet Fern, Clover Plantain, Huckleberry, Milkweed, Cowslip, Buttercup, Blue Eye, and Squash Blossom again. But as I do not know when I shall re v... ...and other such un seasonable merriment among the victims, before the high blue mountains of Crete began to show themselves among the far off clouds. ... ...ed himself out at full length on the ground, where he looked like the long ridge of a hill; and it was a good hour’s walk, no doubt, for a short legge...

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...y General Geary’s scouts report that they find no en- emy this side of the Blue Ridge. Neither do I. Have they been to the Blue Ridge looking for them... ...eral Geary’s scouts report that they find no en- emy this side of the Blue Ridge. Neither do I. Have they been to the Blue Ridge looking for them. A. ... ... those mentioned, I have not, outside of your army, 75,000 men east of the mountains. Thus the idea of sending you 50,000, or any other considerable f... ... to exceed 80,000 disciplined troops, properly so called, this side of the mountains; and most of them, with many of the new regiments, are now close ... ...h- ing and fighting, there are scarcely any old troops east or west of the mountains that have not done as hard service. I sin- cerely wish war was an... ... order, you to cross the Potomac below instead of above the Shenandoah and Blue Ridge. My idea was, that this would at once menace the enemy’s communi... ...r, you to cross the Potomac below instead of above the Shenandoah and Blue Ridge. My idea was, that this would at once menace the enemy’s communicatio... ...s whether you move directly by the chord or on the inside arc, hugging the Blue Ridge more closely. The chord line, as you see, car- ries you by Aldie... ...ther you move directly by the chord or on the inside arc, hugging the Blue Ridge more closely. The chord line, as you see, car- ries you by Aldie, Hay...

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... the scenes I shifted, an’ some av what they said I heard; for I was death—blue death an’ ivy—on the comb-cuttin’. He was iverlastin’ly oppressing her... ... red, hairy scraun, wid a scar on his jaw? Peg Barney that cleared out the Blue Lights’ Jubilee meeting wid the cook-room mop last year? ‘Thin I knew ... ...‘“Shut your oi to the Rig’lations, Sorr,” I sez, “till the throoper’s into blue wather. By the Rig’lations you’ve got to tuck thim up for the night, o... ...d-water above the crops, and, after I let down my legs and felt bottom—the ridge of a field—and, after, the dead man stayed upon a knoll under a fig-t... ...he was called ‘The Native.’ He might have been the original Old Man of the Mountains, who is said to be the only authorised head of the T ea-cup Creed... ...lifted by a letter—it came flying through a window-from the Old Man of the Mountains—the Head of all the Creed—explaining the Manifestation in the mos... ... Englishman had been proved, under the hand and seal of the Old Man of the Mountains, to have appropriated Vir- tue and pretended to have Power which,...

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...oes forth instead, crosses the great seas and the long plains and the dark mountains, and comes at last to your door in Monterey, charged with tender ... ...ow shone more fairly on the pool; and over its brown, welling surface, the blue of heaven and the golden green of the spring foliage danced in fleetin... ... are plentifully bilious; he has a satur- nine eye; his cheek is of a dark blue where he has been shaven. Essentially he is to be numbered among the m... ...mounted on every side; the Flag Tower climbed, stage after stage, into the blue; and high over all, among the building daws, the yellow flag wavered i... ... brilliancy of countless stars; and along the western sky the dim forms of mountains. The glory of the great night laid hold upon her; her eyes shone ... .... On she passed, and up and down, in sun and shadow; now aloft on the bare ridge among the rocks and birches, with the lizards and the snakes; and ano... ...hs, in the maze of valleys; and again, from a hill-top, beheld the distant mountains and the great birds circling under the sky. She would see afar of...