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...spersed among the rocks, there lay a young lad on his back, in a stout canvas cassock over his leathern coat, and stout leathern leggings over wooden shoes. Twilight was fast coming on; only a gleam of purple light rested on the top of the eastern hills, but was gradually fading away, though the sky to the westward still preserved a little pale golden light by the help of ...

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... cassock over his leathern coat, and stout leath- ern leggings over wooden shoes. Twilight was fast coming on; only a gleam of purple light rested on ... ... safer if I were away at the cell at Greystone when Queen Margaret and the Red Rose came north.’ ‘ And is that the way they keep you safe?’ asked the ... ..., I can see. Come, an you love me, tell me true! I told you true who I am, Red Rose though I see you be! Why not trust me the same?’ 16 The Herd Boy ... ... e more meaning than perhaps Hal understood. ‘ And the white overcomes the red.’ ‘May be the red will have its way with spring—’ But there Hob looked ... ... may I not go with thee?’ ‘Nay, my fair son. Thou art beneath thy mother’s wing, while I am like one who was hunted as a partridge on the mountains.’ ... ...w, sheaf of arrows, strong knife or pike, buff coat, head- piece and stout shoes; also a wallet of provisions for three days, or a certain amount of c... ...S’ THE MINORESSES’ The bird that hath been limed in a bush, With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush. —Shakespeare. ONE DAY, soon after that T welf... ...ivering at the least gust of fresh wind, and not daring to wet their satin shoes if there had been a shower of rain in the cloisters. Were we not all ...

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...Excerpt: Introduction to Canto First. November?s sky is chill and drear, November?s leaf is red and sear: Late, gazing down the steepy linn That hems our little garden in, Low in its dark and narrow glen You scarce the rivulet might ken, So thick the tangled greenwood grew....

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...iel, Ettrick Forest. November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear: Late, gazing down the steepy linn That hems our little garden... ...led speed, Hurries its waters to the T weed. No longer Autumn’s glowing red Upon our forest hills is shed; No more, beneath the evening beam, Fair ... ...heir theme the merry minstrels made, Of Ascapart, and Bevis bold, And that Red King, who, while of old, Through Boldrewood the chase he led, By his lo... ...mbossed; Amid the plumage of the crest, A falcon hovered on her nest, With wings outspread, and forward breast: E’en such a falcon, on his shield, Soa... ...e? Let the wild falcon soar her swing, She’ll stoop when she has tired her wing.” XVIII. “Nay, if with royal James’s bride The lovely Lady Heron bide,... ... I heard, Which bids us be for storm prepared, The distant rustling of his wings, As up his force the tempest brings, ‘T were sweet, ere yet his terro... ...re A pointed cap, such as of yore Clerks say that Pharaoh’s Magi wore: His shoes were marked with cross and spell, Upon his breast a pentacle; His zon... ... of rule aside, And Ceremony doffed his pride. The heir, with roses in his shoes, That night might village partner choose; The lord, underogating, sha...

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...eyes mothered the world. Stewart Snyder peered at her. He rammed his large red fists into his pockets, he jerked them out, he resolutely got rid of th... ...uccess in the real-estate business. She took walks, and was sensible about shoes and diet. And never did she feel that she was living. She went to dan... ...the palm soft, but the back weathered, show- ing golden hairs against firm red skin. He looked at her as though she was an agreeable dis- covery. She ... ...m things—the steel stacks, and the everlasting cards smeared all over with red rubber stamps.” 16 Main Street “Don’t you get sick of the city?” “St. ... ...reeably broad turn- down linen collar, and frivolous ankles above athletic shoes. The High Bridge crosses the Mississippi, mounting from low banks to ... ...kmen going to new jobs; traveling salesmen with derbies and freshly shined shoes. They are parched and cramped, the lines of their hands filled with g... ...y mile or two was a chain of cobalt slews, with the flicker of blackbirds’ wings across them. All this working land was turned into exuberance by 28 ... ...row con- crete walk up to it. Sickly yellow leaves in a windrow with dried wings of box-elder seeds and snags of wool from the cotton-woods. A screene... ...lark she sounded insane. But he chuckled, “Now you just cuddle under Sam’s wing, and if anybody rubbers at you too 44 Main Street long, I’ll shoo ‘em...

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...d through the breathless hush That answered me, the far-off rush Of herald wings came whispering Like music down the vibrant string Of my ascending pr... ...d brown: Standing up or sitting down Little matters, or what gown Or what shoes I wear. T T T T Tav av av av avern ern ern ern ern I’ll keep a little... ...ud oud oud oud Death, I say, my heart is bowed Unto thine,—O mother! This red gown will make a shroud Good as any other! (I, that would not wait to ... ...hem the gate.) Death, I say, my heart is bowed Unto thine,—O mother! This red gown will make a shroud Good as any other! ... ...e round moon, all throats that sing The summer through, and each departing wing, And all the nests that the bared branches show, And all winds that ... ...st and morning knew, Or watch the wind, or listen to the beat Of a bird’s wings too high in air to view,— But you were something more than young and ...

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...e portier was not satisfied. He finally had it taken up, and then he put it down himself and got it right. At this stage of the proceedings, a narrow ... ...dings, a narrow bright red car- pet was unrolled and stretched from the top of the marble steps to the curbstone, along the center of the black carpet... ... the raven eyed me. Nothing was said during some seconds. Then the bird stepped a little way along his limb to get a better point of observation, lift... ...side, shut one eye and put the other one to the hole, like a possum looking down a jug; then he glanced up with his bright eyes, gave a wink or two wi... ...ke a hole—blamed if I don’t believe it is a hole!’ “Then he cocked his head down and took another look; he glances up perfectly joyful, this time; win... ...ious colors, and belonged to social organizations called “corps.” There were five corps, each with a color of its own; there were white caps, blue cap... ...; it had been neglected by the tourist, it was virgin soil for the liter- ary pioneer. Meantime the knapsacks, the rough walking-suits and the stout w... ... hats, to keep the sun off; gray knapsacks; blue army shirts; blue overalls; leath- ern gaiters buttoned tight from knee down to ankle; high- quarter ... ...ger grew to a frenzy. I finally did what all persons before me have done, clear back to Adam,—resolved to throw something. I reached down and got my w...

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...poon River Anthology Benjamin Fraser THEIR spirits beat upon mine Like the wings of a thousand butterflies. I closed my eyes and felt their spirits vi... ...htened eyes, The rising flame of my soul made their spirits gilt, Like the wings of a butterfly drifting suddenly into sunlight. And they cried to me ... ... crushes grapes and drinks From its palms the purple juice, I came to this wingless void, Where neither red, nor gold, nor wine, Nor the rhythm of lif... ...om its palms the purple juice, I came to this wingless void, Where neither red, nor gold, nor wine, Nor the rhythm of life are known. Minerva Jones I ... ... was Who snapped the toy pistol against my hand? There when the flags were red and white In the breeze and “Bucky” Estil Was firing the cannon brought... ...ons, my daughters. Squire Higbee wrongs me to say That I died from smoking Red Eagle cigars. Eating hot pie and gulping coffee During the scorching ho... ...are dumped, And abortions are hidden. Eugene Carman RHODES, slave! Selling shoes and gingham, Flour and bacon, overalls, clothing, all day long For fo... ... cage. One time I entered my blacksmith shop And shook as I saw some horse-shoes crawling Across the floor, as if alive— Walter Simmons had put a magn... ...t fish and about leopards too, And you didn’t know any more than the horse-shoes did What moved you about Spoon River. Hildrup Tubbs I MADE two fights...

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...name the place, for the reasons aforesaid; but the command- ers on each left wing will be killed. I see bonfires, and hear the noise of guns for a... ...having a wife to maintain, and no other way to get my bread; for mending old shoes is a poor livelihood; and, (added he, sighing) I wish I may not hav... ...ff Partridge Papers – Swift 15 The Horned Moon, which heretofore Upon their Shoes the Romans wore, Whose Wideness kept their Toes from Corns, And whe... ...ent else but Leather? Which an Astrologer might use, Either for Almanacks or Shoes. Thus Partridge, by his Wit and Parts, At once did practise both th... ...tise both these Arts; And as the boading Owl (or rather The Bat, because her Wings are Leather) Steals from her private Cell by Night, And flies about... ... more than what is common to all that profession; Gadbury, Poor Robin, Dove, Wing, and several others, do yearly publish their almanacks, though sever... ...d to make an unusual motion; upon which the audience will be affected with a red suffusion over their countenance: And be- cause a strong succession o...

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...lier generations: the Post Office with its shingle-tortured man- sard, the red brick minarets of hulking old houses, factories with stingy and sooted ... ...nd Peking. Through the building crawled the scrubwomen, yawning, their old shoes slapping. The dawn mist spun away. Cues of men with lunch-boxes clump... ...w, in April, 1920, and he made nothing in particu- lar, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for mo... ...hin and dry. His face was babyish in slumber, despite his wrinkles and the red spectacle-dents on the slopes of his nose. He was not fat but he was ex... ... White piping on the V of the vest added a flavor of law and learning. His shoes were black laced boots, good boots, honest boots, standard boots, ext... ...rative boy of seventeen. Tinka—Katherine—still a baby at ten, with radiant red hair and a thin skin which hinted of too much candy and too many ice cr... ... the convention— Babbitt, Rountree, W. A. Rogers, Alvin Thayer, and Elbert Wing—there were fifty unofficial delegates, most of them with their wives. ... ...itt perceived that as an official delegate he must be more dignified. With Wing and Rogers he tramped up and down the cement platform beside the waiti... ...rstand just where they get off in this matter of taxing realty transfers.” Wing uttered approving grunts and Babbitt swelled—gloated The blind of a Pu...

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...air had made In lone Glenartney’s hazel shade; But when the sun his beacon red Had kindled on Benvoirlich’s head, The deep-mouthed bloodhound’s heavy ... ...ts hid, Whose glossy black to shame might bring The plumage of the raven’s wing; And seldom o’er a breast so fair Mantled a plaid with modest care, An... ...een;— So forth the startled swan would swing, So turn to prune his ruffled wing. Then safe, though fluttered and amazed, She paused, and on the strang... ...right, Recalled the vision of the night. The hearth’s decaying brands were red And deep and dusky lustre shed, Half showing, half concealing, all The ... ... Scott CANTO SECOND. The Island. I. At morn the black-cock trims his jetty wing, ‘T is morning prompts the linnet’s blithest lay, All Nature’s chil... ...y father fought I honor, as his daughter ought; But can I clasp it reeking red From peasants slaughtered in their shed? No! wildly while his virtues g... ...e same above our said ankles. So, and please your noble grace, we make our shoes. Therefore, we using such manner of shoes, the rough hairy side out- ...

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...to those who met them. Their heads were covered with a dirty head- gear of red flannel, not unlike the Phrygian cap which the Republic had lately adop... ...t the end of which hung a linen bag with little in it. Some wore, over the red cap, a coarse felt hat, with a broad brim adorned by a sort of woollen ... ...en with large buttons was visible. Some of the com- pany marched in wooden shoes; others, by way of economy, carried them in their hand. This costume,... ...ne like flowers. In fact, the blue linen trousers of these last, and their red or yellow waistcoats, adorned with two parallel rows of brass buttons a... ...s the corn- flowers and poppies in a wheat-field. Some of them wore wooden shoes, which the peasants of Brittany make for them- selves; but the greate... ...gion. Wearing round hats, or flapping brims or caps, high-topped boots, or shoes and gaiters, they exhibited as many and as remarkable differences in ... ...putting himself at their head. This little centre was protected by the two wings, of twenty- five men each, which manoeuvred on either side of the roa... ...onds each side fired, with the loss of several men. At this moment the two wings of the Republi- cans, to whom the Chouans had nothing to oppose, came... ...he swarm. The Chouans might have carried the day at this moment if the two wings commanded by Merle and Gerard had not succeeded in getting in two vol...

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... present from Nurse Freeman. It was a large mug, representing a man with a red coat, black hat, and white waistcoat, very short legs, and top-boots. T... ...ver get fined,” cried Hal joyfully. “Except for running up stairs in dirty shoes,” said Sam. “Oh! there’s no dirt now.” “Let me see, what are the fine... ...crying. For unnecessary words in lesson-time. For running up stairs in wet shoes. For leaving things about. Each of these bits of misbehaviour caused ... ... covered the middle of the room, and was so threadbare, that only a little red showed here and there. All that was needful was there, but of the plain... ...he blue, so very deep, of the sky—and oh! see that train of little clouds, red with soft sunny light, like a little soft flock of rosy lambs, if there... ...with a real bird, with glass eyes, black plumage, except the red crest and wings. She wore a neatly-fitting little fringed black polka, beneath which ... ...his way. She laid hold of him, and he began fighting and kicking, in stout shoes, whose thumps were no joke. She held fast, but she felt frightened, a... ...hall be able to show her the old birds flying round, catching flies on the wing, and feeding the young ones, all perched in a row. Now, can she scramb... .... Off came the flower-pot, and disclosed something flying off with rushing wings, and something confused remaining,—a cluster of grey wings all quill,...

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...re, deprived of its electrical conditions, echoes neither the whirr of its wings nor its joyous notes. Besides, what human eye was strong enough to be... ... mountains. Do you see the shad- owy figures passing among the clouds, the winged feet of those who are making ready the gifts of heaven? They bring r... ...appeared in the portico bearing a lantern. Seraphitus slipped off his snow-shoes with 22 Seraphita the graceful dexterity of a woman, then darting in... ...ho betrays not love, Him be- fore whom we kneel in adoration? “Would I had wings to cover thee, Wilfrid; power to give thee strength to enter now into... ...ht, his legs trembling and covered with snow, for he had come without snow-shoes, stood swaying from side to side, as if some boisterous wind were sha... ...f a moving milky way. The sun was visible through the haze like a globe of red fire. Though winter still lingered, puffs of warm air laden with the sc...

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...itted lad, very black hair, and wore a blue coat and metal buttons, an old red vest, and breeches of the same colour.” A second witness testified to h... ...s testified to having seen him wearing “a blue coat with silver buttons, a red waistcoat, black shag breeches, tartan hose, and a feathered hat, with ... ...rested to discover that the feeling concerning the murder of Glenure (the “Red Fox,” also called “Colin Roy”) was almost as keen as though the tragedy... ...the Forest of Ettrick. “Mr. Campbell,” I stammered, “and if you were in my shoes, would you go?” “Of a surety,” said the minister, “that would I, and ... ...The nearer I got to that, the drearier it appeared. It seemed like the one wing of a house that had never been finished. What should have been the inn... ...r some pressure of time, and to throw out little darting glances now at my shoes and now at my home-spun stockings. Once only, when he had ventured to... ... I came the length of the stairtower door at the far end of the unfinished wing. I had got the key into the keyhole and had just turned it, when all u... ...hen turning to me, he asked if I had done much execution. I told him I had winged one, and thought it was the captain. “And I’ve settled two,” says he... ...n to-morrow, what better would ye be? There would be another factor in his shoes, as fast as spur can drive.” “Ye’re a good lad in a fight,” said Alan...

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...lue cloth roundabout was new and natty, and so were his panta loons. He had shoes on — and it was only Friday. He even wore a necktie, a bright bit o... ...othes and cleanliness that galled him. He hoped that Mary would for get his shoes, but the hope was blighted; she coated them thoroughly with tallow,... ...ry said, persuasively: “Please, Tom — that’s a good boy.” So he got into the shoes snarling. Mary was soon ready, and the three children set out for S... ...e property changed hands. Then Tom traded a couple of white alleys for three red tickets, and some small trifle or other for a couple of blue ones. H... ...ticket was pay for two verses of the recitation. Ten blue tickets equalled a red one, and could be exchanged for it; ten red tickets equalled a yellow... ...when hope was dead, Tom Saw yer came forward with nine yellow tickets, nine red tickets, and ten blue ones, and demanded a Bible. This was a thun de... ...the body, and the slender thread of a neck was exposed to view; scraping its wings with its hind legs and smoothing them to its body as if they had be... ...eil of heat, tinted with the purple of distance; a few birds floated on lazy wing high in the air; no other living thing was visible but some cows, an... ... lay near the village, the barking of the aroused watch dogs seemed to give wings to their feet. “If we can only get to the old tannery before we bre...

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...thirst for vengeance. As soon as he thought himself able to fly on his own wings, Fougeres took a studio in the upper part of the rue des Mar- tyrs, w... ... a kind that painters call abatis, rose above the varnished leather of the shoes in a swelling that was some inches high. How the feet were ever got i... ... a swelling that was some inches high. How the feet were ever got into the shoes, no one knows. Following these vegetable parents was a young asparagu... ...satin and adorned with two honest bows of the same satin, hands virtuously red, and the feet of her mother. The faces of these three beings wore, as t... ...y in his studio, so he took a walk on the boulevard, and looked at all the red-haired women who passed him. He made a series of the oddest rea- soning... ...somest of metals; a tawny yellow represented gold; the Romans were fond of red-haired women, and he turned Roman, etc. After two years of marriage wha...

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...are going to Blithedale tomorrow.” I knew the pale, elderly face, with the red tipt nose, and the patch over one eye; and likewise saw something chara... ... though it had a scarlet tip, by no means indicated the jollity of which a red nose is the generally admitted symbol. He was a subdued, undemonstrativ... ...emoved; so that, glancing round, I could see his gray pantaloons and dusty shoes, while his upper part was mostly hidden behind the shrubbery. Nor did... ...g,—although the bills had announced her, at the corner of every street, in red letters of a gigantic size,—there was no Veiled Lady to be seen! Now, l... ...as illu minated by not a few sparrows and other birds, which spread their wings, and flitted and fluttered, and alighted now here, now there, and bus... ... scratched their food out of the wormy 117 Hawthorne earth. Most of these winged people seemed to have their domicile in a robust and healthy buttonw... ...ling in a warm and comfortable dove cote. All at once this dove spread her wings, and, launching herself in the air, came flying so straight across th... ...evenly she trod in it! There never was a woman that stept handsomer in her shoes than Zenobia did. Here,” he added, addressing Hollingsworth, “would y...

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...rties at this time:the dear little eyes are closed in sleep under mother’s wing. How far off city cares and pleasures appear to be! how small and mean... ...castle stands. Numbers of people, arrayed in various brilliant colours of red, were standing on the sand close by the tumbling, shining, purple waves... ..., shining, purple waves:and there we beheld, for the first time, the Royal red and yellow standard of Spain floating on its own ground, under the guar... ...ay HENCE WE WERE DRIVEN to the huge palace of Necessidades, which is but a wing of a building that no King of Portugal ought ever to be rich enough to... ...ountry. Boat after boat laden with priests and peas- antry, with handsome red-sashed gallegos clad in brown, and ill-favoured women, came and got the... ...gar, off which we lie. What business have I to strut the deck, and clap my wings, and cry “Cock-a-doodle-doo” over it?Some compatriots are at that wor... ...ding fat, and of a most solemn demeanour. The young Aga came for a pair of shoes, and his contortions were so delightful as he tried them, that I rema...

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...slope, in straight lines along the brow of the hill. They were of darkened red brick, brittle, with dark slate roofs. The path on which the sisters wa... ...sters passed in silence through the stone gateway and up the steps, on the red carpet, a policeman estimating their progress. ‘What price the stocking... ...eft clear for her. How she hated walking up the churchyard path, along the red carpet, continuing in motion, in their sight. ‘I won’t go into the chur... ...yellow colour, and she carried a lot of small rose-coloured cyclamens. Her shoes and stockings were of brownish grey, like the feathers on her hat, he... ...d a plaited ribbon of black and orange, the stockings were dark green, the shoes black. It was a good 79 get-up, at once fashionable and individual. ... ...ed as she told how the ousted lover had sat with his head buried under his wing, on the gravel. When they arrived back at the house, Hermione stood on... ...f it was, how hideous and how sickeningly mindless. Sometimes she beat her wings like a new Daphne, turning not into a tree but a machine. And yet, sh... ...large black-and-red one standing upon a flower and breathing with his soft wings, 115 intoxicatingly, breathing pure, ethereal sunshine; two white on... ... white, save that her hat was pink, and entirely without trimming, and her shoes were dark red, and she carried an orange-coloured coat. And in this g...

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...ed his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A f... ...cious attitude against the wall. Lumber room as usual. Old fire guards, old shoes, two fish baskets, washing stand on three legs, and a poker. Quite ... ...e. Inces sant torture of remorse.’ ‘You travel fast?’ said Scrooge. ‘On the wings of the wind,’ replied the Ghost. ‘You might have got over a great q... ... high road, by a well remembered lane, and soon approached a mansion of dull red brick, with a little weathercock surmounted cupola, on the roof, and ... ...gs, long wreaths of sausages, mince pies, plum puddings, barrels of oysters, red hot chest nuts, cherry cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears... ... in this. They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being water proof; their clothes were scanty; and Pet... ...ech you.’ The Phantom spread its dark robe before him for a mo ment, like a wing; and withdrawing it, revealed a room by daylight, where a mother and...

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...tive to those whom the Keepsake fashion can stir. She has a straight nose, red lips, raven hair, black eyes, rich com- plexion, a remarkably fine bust... ...d trans- forms the quiet worms, busy on a single poor peaceable body, into winged serpents that disorder sky and earth with a deadly flight of zig-zag... ...ndependence, that she might have the calm out of which imagination spreads wing. Imagination had become her broader life, and on such an earth, under ... ... Dunstane’s request. It was a delicious afternoon of Spring, with the full red disk of sun dropping behind the brown beech-twigs. She remembered long ... ... to melt icicles in Greenland. He walked unthinkingly, right ahead, to the red West, as he discovered when pausing to consult his watch. Time was left... ...t could be learnt in the morning; but his mission was urgent and he on the wings of 83 George Meredith it. He was vexed and saddened. Scarcely had he... ... treated as unworthy of her; mere stuff of the dustheap, mutton-bones, old shoes; she swam above them in a cocoon of her spinning, sylphidine, unseiza... ... Now he saw the beast he was: a filthy beast! unworthy of tying his wife’s shoestring. No confes- sions could expose to them the beast he was. But let...