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...ng factories. Sleepy-eyed cows spent all their time grazing in the grassy meadows because there was no one at home to milk them. The once busy shipy... ...e marched out of the colony and right off the path! Standing alone in the meadow, Herbie’s eyes widened at the size of everything. The grass was so ...

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...ungry by now.” he thought. He was very sad. He sat down in the middle of the meadow and cried. “What can I give my little brother?” he asked the Daisi...

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...eat to slow as she moved toward the voice. He stood at the edge of where the meadow began. A full moon floated from behind a swatch of clouds and cast... ...Cloud forward. The trees thinned and then opened into a small, flower-dotted meadow awash in sunlight. Kelsey reined in Freya and waited for her eyes ... ... What comes?” Kelsey turned in her saddle and swept a gaze over the peaceful meadow again. “Wolf things. We must flee before them.” She reached for t...

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...and quite clear of town,’ said Mr Westwood. ‘What do you say to one of the meadows opposite T wickenham, by the river-side?’ The captain saw no object... ... they , at length, turned to the right, and taking a track across a little meadow, passed Ham House and came into some fields beyond. In one of these,... ...tion. They procured a humble lodging in a small farmhouse, sur- rounded by meadows where Nicholas had often revelled when a child with a troop of merr...

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... shower. Mari- golds are in her hand. The whole square of canvas is like a meadow on the borders of June. It causes blinking. Her brother also is pres... ...islike Bull’s bellow of disrespect for their religion, much bruited in the meadows during his periods of Arcadia. They dislike it, cannot forget the s...

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...e followed by prospectors and miners. Settlers who saw the possibilities for agriculture and ranching in the region were not far behind them. The Ash Meadows area, a true desert oasis, was the home of many people, including early community builder "Dad" Fairbanks and some of dubious reputation, such as the legendary desert frontiersman Jack Longstreet. Discovery of borax, ...

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...o the Amargosa Valley Clark Builds the LV&T Smith Builds the T&T 6 People and Places — The Early 1900s "Dad" Fairbanks Outlaw Country The Ash Meadows Clay Camps Life in Clay Camp 7 The Amargosa Valley in the 1930s-1950s Stops on the T&T Railroad The T&T Ranch—The Leeland Water and Land Company Ash Meadows During the 1930s-1950s Lathrop Wells, 1930-1950 C...

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...re is perfect,” he said, his voice husky, but he followed her into the grassy meadow. “Is this where we’re stopping?” “Not yet. There’s a river fur... ...campsite and relax. My horse is hungry.” He pushed past her and across the meadow. Cisco balked—unusual for him—but Kurt was in a hurry and force... ... swallowed and pulled off his own saddle before leading Cisco deeper into the meadow where there was less chance he could sneak away. Cisco was wily ... ...way to herd her back to the horses. His hope flared when the trail led into a meadow filled with flowers. This might cheer her up—pull her out of he... ...peckled alder, his eyes narrowing. Dirt and boulders had been thrown over the meadow, their moist brownness at odds with the vivid colors, like unex... ... safety of the trees, jarring the air with his frantic bawls. Kurt scanned the meadow, desperate for a log, stick, anything. But the brilliance of th... ...ld be. “I’ll get the horses.” He yanked his clothes on and strode across the meadow, not wanting to look at her pinched face any longer. It had to... ...said with a spike of longing. The fresh spring smell reminded him of mountain meadows, lusty sex and Julie. The old man was staring at him, so he fl...

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... his magic stick again, and 13 So the magician made all kinds of plants: meadows with carpets of red, yellow, and blue flowers, groves and forests, ...

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.... When I looked across the pond from 54 Walden this peak toward the Sudbury meadows, which in time of flood I distinguished elevated perhaps by a mira... ...o the city. All the Indian huckleberry hills are stripped, all the cranberry meadows are raked into the city. Up comes the cotton, down goes the woven... .... In one direction from my house there was a colony of muskrats in the river meadows; under the grove of elms and buttonwoods in the other horizon was... ...e were no weeds at all in it; and of noticeable plants, except in the little meadows recently overflowed, which do not properly belong to it, a closer ... ...s from the only shore they knew, which place was long since converted into a meadow. But the pond has risen steadily for two years, and now, in the su... ...here, or as high as it was thirty years ago, and fishing goes on again in the meadow. This makes a difference of level, at the outside, of six or seven... ...aters within it; who regretted only that it was not English hay or cranberry meadow, — there was nothing to redeem it, forsooth, in his eyes, — and wo... ...as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruits, but dollars; who loves not the ... ... woods, to eke out my scanty fare of vegetables. My way led through Pleasant Meadow, an adjunct of the Baker Farm, that retreat of which a poet has si...

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... making queer mounds and little black places among the corn-fields and the meadows. And the cottages of these coal-miners, in blocks and pairs here an... ... hour. When he rose to go forward he felt queer. The two had dinner in the Meadows, with Jerry’s sister, then repaired to the Punch Bowl, where they m... ...in the arid heat. Mrs. Morel took the little girl down to the brook in the meadows, which were not more than two hundred yards away. The water ran qui... ...d sheep- bridge, watching. Up at the dipping-hole, at the other end of the meadow, Mrs. Morel could see the naked forms of boys flashing round the dee... ...an occa- sional bright figure dart glittering over the blackish stag- nant meadow. She knew William was at the dipping-hole, and it was the dread of h... ...ver forgive him. She went over the sheep-bridge and across a corner of the meadow to the cricket-ground. The meadows seemed one space of ripe, evening... .... After a while she went home. A fine shadow was flung over the deep green meadow, darkening all. As she expected, she found the house empty. But More... ... and son went through the wheat and oats, over a little bridge into a wild meadow. Peewits, with their white breasts glis- tening, wheeled and screame... ...ood. Paul talked endlessly to both of them. They lay down, all three, in a meadow by Minton Church. On one side, by the Castle Farm, was a beautiful q...

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...he body is tied down and brought immovably to anchor on a sickbed. It is a meadow and bank on a corner on the river, and is connected in my mind insep... ...anks of the Nith. I had not spent a day by a river since we lunched in the meadows near Sudbury. The air was as 37 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ... ...if you please, To smell the good sea-winds and hear the seas, And in green meadows lay your body down. To find your pale face grow from pale to brown,... ... your sorrows, if you please. Here in this seaboard land of old renown, In meadow grass go wading to the knees; Bathe your whole soul a while in simpl... ...g eyes, my travelling mind can go By flood and field and hill, by wood and meadow fair, Beside the Susquehannah and along the Dela- ware. I think, I h... ... lytle Jape of Tusherie. By A. Tusher. The pleasant river gushes Among the meadows green; At home the author tushes; For him it flows unseen. The Bird... ...pirits. Money holds out wonderfully. Fanny has gone for a drive to certain meadows which are now one sheet of jonquils: sea-bound meadows, the thought... ...ve hills; we have skies; the roses are putting forth, as yet sparsely; the meadows by the sea are one sheet of jonquils; the birds sing as in an Engli...

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...ugar-loaf, overlooking the plain where the Charente winds away through the meadows. The crag is an outlying spur on the Perigord side of a long, low r... ... M. de Bargeton all but killed M. de Chandour this morning in M. T ulloy’s meadow; people are making puns on the name. (T ue Poie.) It seems that M. d...

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...e perceived. On the banks of this brook I found many pleasant savannahs or meadows, plain, smooth, and covered with grass; and on the rising parts of ... ...tched upon a place very proper for all these (being a plain, open piece of meadow land, or savan- nah, as our people call it in the western colonies),...

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...seem full of fine timber, and the valley looks comfortable and snug — with rich meadows and several neat farm houses scattered here and there. It exact...

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...ucation: Creating a Sustainable World • The Need for Designing the Future Collaboratively: To Whom the Future of the Earth Might Concern. • Donella Meadows' "Visioning": Global Citizens Designing a Sustainable World Together • Mahayana: Philosophy for Sustainability • Designing a Lasting Peace Together • Home: The Very "Leverage Point" • Defining "Sustainability" ...

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...he river valley. There, the river formed a little pond, and with its green meadow and magnificent trees, the valley was like a park from Paradise. Bey... ...nd magnificent trees, the valley was like a park from Paradise. Beyond the meadow, the road turned left to the village school, nowadays accompanied by...

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.................................................... 69 COME FROM THE DAISIED MEADOWS ...................................................................... ...Spring, song-leader in woods, chorally resonant; Spring, flower-planter in meadows, Child-conductor in willowy Fields deep dotted with bloom, daisies ... ... the songs you love to sing shall echo in your head. COME FROM THE DAISIED MEADOWS Home from the daisied meadows, where you linger yet – Home, golden-... ...eath. Love on high in the flute-like And tender notes Sounds as from April meadows And hillside cotes; But the deep wood wind in the chimney Utters th... ...amlets gush, And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush, With sun on the meadows And songs in the shadows Comes again to me The gift of the tongues ... ...again to me The gift of the tongues of the lea, The gift of the tongues of meadows. Straightway my olden heart returns And dances with the dancing bur... ...h gods, And the lusty ploughman breaks the sod, And the grass sings in the meadows, And the flowers smile in the shadows, Sits my heart at ease, Heari... ...s my heart at ease, Hearing the song of the leas, Singing the songs of the meadows. 76 New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1918) TO WHAT SHALL I COM... ...sun comes after shadow And the singing of the showers, The girls go up the meadow, Fair as flowers. When the eve comes dusky red And the moon succeeds...

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...ow, at Sotherton we have a good seven hundred, without reckoning the water meadows; so that I think, if so much could be done at Compton, we need not ... ...ll its demesnes, gently rising beyond the village road; and in Dr. Grant’s meadow she immediately saw the group—Edmund and Miss Crawford both on horse... ...d should forget her, and felt a pang. She could not turn her eyes from the meadow; she could not help watching all that passed. At first Miss Crawford... ... and the other were soon a little tranquillised by seeing the party in the meadow disperse, and Miss Crawford still on horseback, but attended by Edmu... ... to look about me; and saw how it might all be. Nothing can be easier. The meadows beyond what will be the garden, as well as what now is, sweeping ro... ...d through the village, must be all laid to- gether, of course; very pretty meadows they are, finely sprinkled with timber. They belong to the living, ...

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...s round it. Such was the region the Nautilus was now visit- ing, a perfect meadow, a close carpet of seaweed, fucus, 201 Jules Verne and tropical ber...

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... da Charda: “Savage, evil men dwelt by its borders. They neither mowed the meadows which it watered, nor sowed the fields which it made fruitful, but ... ... Then they bade the lake welcome, if it would only bedew their fields and meadows; and it sank down and spread itself out in its home to the full lim... ...vines and flowers, Whispered to me as I followed Flocks in land of honeyed meadows, Over hillocks green and golden, After sable haired Murikki, And th... ...wing, some were raking, Raking what was mown together, In a windrow on the meadow. From the ocean rose a giant, Mighty T ursas, tall and hardy, Presse... ... the birch trees; On the mountains grew the berries, Golden flowers in the meadows, And the herbs of many colors, Many kinds of vegetation; But the ba... ...ainamoinen, ancient minstrel, Passed his years in full contentment, On the meadows of Wainola, On the plains of Kalevala, Singing ever wondrous legend... ...ws, Came upon his ears the story That there lived a sweeter singer, On the meadows of Wainola, On the plains of Kalevala, Better skilled in chanting l... ...hird from morn till evening, Till the third day twilight brings him To the meadows of Wainola, To the plains of Kalevala. As it happened, Wainamoinen,... ...nset on the highway, Silently for pleasure driving Down Wainola’s peaceful meadows, O’er the plains of Kalevala. Youkahainen, young and fiery, Urging ...

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... beg for mercy of a rich peasant in the village to whom his ploughland and meadow were mort gaged. He went to beg the rich peasant to grant him the u... ...e mort gaged. He went to beg the rich peasant to grant him the use of the meadow and field till after the harvest; but in the evening he came back ve... ...f bread: and just see where it has landed me. It’s a case of redeeming the meadow and the cornfield. And when I have done that, I shall have to buy a ... ... early, and going to the rich peasant, redeemed both the cornfield and the meadow land. He bought a scythe (for that also had been sold) and brought i... ...ke his place. The field is ploughed up, so the fool must be tackled in the meadow.’ So the imp went to the meadows and flooded Iván’s hayfield with wa... ...oint into the earth. Iván found the work very hard, but he mowed the whole meadow, except one little bit which was in the swamp. The imp crept into th... ... for his comrades — no one was there. He only found a hole. He went to the meadow, and there he found an imp’s tail in the swamp, and another hole in ... ...now a cow strayed into her garden, now his calves found their way into her meadows — and he always had to pay a fine. Pahóm paid up, but grumbled, and... ... out to plough his fields, or to look at his growing corn, or at his grass meadows, his heart would fill with joy. The grass that grew and the flowers...

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...er house erect and calm Between the pantry and the linen chest, Or else at meadow or at grazing overlooks Her labouring men, as though her darling liv... ...gues oversea, And runs or a while half flies On his yellow legs through our meadows. THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE 141 He stayed for a while; and we Had sca... ...lind rambling celebrant; The red man the juggler sent Through God forsaken meadows; Mrs. French, Gifted with so fine an ear; The man drowned in a bog’s... ... of the croziers, at the heel of a century fell, Weak, in the midst of the meadow, from his miles in the midst of the air, A starling like them that f... ... the air, In the waste of the high air, that we may wander Among the windy meadows of the dawn.’ But why are they still waiting? why are they Circling...

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...lest of bipeds! Three quintals are a crushing load for him; the steer of the meadow tosses him aloft, like a waste rag. Nevertheless he can use Tools;... ...razing deliberately with jackets and petticoats (of striped sacking), in the meadows of Gouda. Nevertheless there 38 SARTOR RESARTUS is something gre... ...reflex of Pandemonian lava? Is it of a truth leading us into beatific Asphodel meadows, or the yellow burning marl of a Hell on Earth? Our Professor, li...

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...preaching the morning sermon. CHAPTER VI My lady’ s tongue is like the meadow blades, That cut you stroking them with idle hand. Nice cutt... ... next morning, lay through a pretty bit of midland land- scape, almost all meadows and pastures, with hedgerows still allowed to grow in bushy beauty ... ...such help as our thoughts get from the sum- mer sky and the flower-fringed meadows. Lydgate relied much on the psychological difference between what f...

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...and, in a lower tone, “there was some half fous o’ aits, and soem taits o’ meadow-hay, left after the burial.” “Very well,” said Ravenswood, taking th...

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...hield The only defaulters were Jasper, who had preferred going down to the meadows with his gun; and Dolores, who had retired to the drawing-room with...

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...r Can tons, and I saw Rutli and Altorf. Rutli is a remote little patch of meadow, but I do not know how any piece of ground could be holier or better...

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...harmony of the Pleiades, and swoop outward from the throne into the starry meadows beyond Orion, where, for pansies and violets, and heart’s —ease, ar...