United States or Vietnam ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
There was no sound but that of the distant breakers mounting from all around, and the chirp of countless insects in the brush. Not a man, not a sail upon the sea; the very largeness of the view increased the sense of solitude. Silver, as he sat, took certain bearings with his compass. "There are three 'tall trees," said he, "about in the right line from Skeleton Island.
"You will never see your wand again. The gnome has got it, and he has carried it down under the ground, where he will hide it from us forever." The fairy could not look up, nor answer. She remained weeping, with her hands before her till the little golden bird began to chirp. "Sing to us again, I pray you, beautiful bird!" said Hulda; "for you are not friendly to the gnome.
Loring, Val Russel, Bruce Townley, Sammy Chirp, Mr. Gamble and Mr. Gresham. For your entertainment you'll have Mr. Washer, Mr. Close and Colonel Bouncer, with whom you will play poker from the time they reach here this afternoon until they go away Monday morning." "It was a good party!" agreed Courtney, "By the way, I owe my poker guests to Johnny Gamble.
When she had finished, she lay down again, and the little bird, who wished to be amiable, began to sing, "Chirp and twitter, The dew-drops glitter, In the hours of sunny spring, I'll sing my best, Till I go to rest, With my head behind my wing." "Now I want rest after my dinner," said the Portuguese; "you must conform to the rules of the house while you are here. I want to sleep now."
So is the space of the prairie. That, I suppose, is why both are too boundless for the limitation of speech. Night after night, with only a grassy swish and deadened tread over the turf breaking stillness, we journeyed northward. Occasionally, like the chirp of cricket in a dry well, life sounded through emptiness.
Spring came and the roses clambered over the stone walls; the bobolinks played hide-and-seek in the waving grass of the meadows; the skylarks sang and poised and soared; the hedgerows grew white with hawthorn-blossoms and musical with the chirp of sparrows; the cattle ranged through the fragrant clover "knee-deep in June."
So I went close beneath the window in the little garden at the back of the house, stretched my limbs well in the morning air, and sang merrily "If the cricket's chirp we hear, Then be sure the day is near; When the sun is rising then 'Tis good to go to asleep again."
Whitney did come home from the meeting, oh! what a time there was. They all fell upon her, as soon as the door opened, and the whole air was filled with "little brown house." "May we may we?" "A whole week." "Two days, Mamsie, do say yes," and Phronsie's glad little chirp "Grandpapa wants to go, he does!" ending every other exclamation. "What a babel," cried Mrs.
His nightly tasks over, he went out and took his favorite seat under the apple tree. All was still, save for the crickets' ceaseless chirp, the soft thud of an August sweeting dropping in the grass, and the swish-swash of the water against his boat, tethered in the Willow Cove.
"Jocelyne," he said in a low tone, approaching his stool nearer to that of the fair girl, and then continuing to polish his gun-barrel without looking her in the face "if you knew how it grieves me to see you thus! You sit and droop like a bird upon the wintry branch, when I would fain see you lift your head and chirp, as in days gone by, now that summer begins to gladden around us."
Word Of The Day