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And the distant blue mountains, and the furthest reaches of the azure sky, and the sombre depths of the wooded valley, and the sheeny splendors of the afternoon sun, and every incident of crag or chasm all appeared through a soft purple haze that possessed the air, and added an ideal embellishment to the scene. Down the ravine the "lick" shone with the lustre of a silver lakelet.
"Less will no serve him," said Caleb; "but ye had best take a visie of him through the wicket before opening the gate; it's no every ane we suld let into this castle." "What! do you suppose him to be a messenger come to arrest me for debt?" said Ravenswood. "A messenger arrest your honour for debt, and in your Castle of Wolf's Crag! Your honour is jesting wi' auld Caleb this morning."
"I am going to see the Pistyll Rhyadr," said I We had then just come to the top of a rising ground. "Yonder's the Pistyll!" said he, pointing to the west. I looked in the direction of his finger, and saw something at a great distance, which looked like a strip of grey linen hanging over a crag. "That is the waterfall," he continued, "which so many of the Saxons come to see.
They were close to the great crag "shaped like a giant's helmet," as Valdemar Svensen had said. It rose sheer out of the water, and its sides were almost perpendicular. Some beautiful star-shaped sea anemones clung to it in a vari-colored cluster on one projection, and the running ripple of the small waves broke on its jagged corners with a musical splash, and sparkle of white foam.
On the right hand Snowdon rises. Vast sheets of utter blackness vast sheets of shining light. He can see every crag which juts from the green walls of Galt-y-Wennalt; and far past it into the Great Valley of Cwn Dyli; and then the red peak, now as black as night, shuts out the world with its huge mist-topped cone. But on the left hand all is deepest shade.
They brought about him a host of images a little gray church penetrated everywhere by the roar of a swollen river; outside, a road filled with empty farmers' carts, and shouting children carrying branches of mountain-ash winding on and up into the heart of wild hills dyed with reddening fern, the sun-gleams stealing from crag to crag, and shoulder to shoulder; inside, row after row of intent faces, all turned towards the central passage, and, moving towards him, a figure 'clad all in white, that seems a virgin best, whose every step brings nearer to him the heaven of his heart's desire.
While the whole air trembled with the sullen reverberations, which echoed from crag to crag, the glare of rockets lit up the path of Près-de-Ville, as the signal lights had done one hundred winters before. At the suggestion of the American Consul, the old house on St.
"You drove me to it. A woman must protect herself, somehow." "Well, you can do it," he said, feeling tenderly of his head, and Virginia flew into a rage. "I told you I was sorry!" she cried, stamping her foot. "Isn't that enough? I'm sorry, I said!" "Yes, and I'm sorry," he answered, but his eyes were level and his jaw jutted out like a crag.
It has long been suspected that the different patches of Red Crag are not all of the same age, although their chronological relation can not be decided by superposition. Separate masses are characterised by shells specifically distinct or greatly varying in relative abundance, in a manner implying that the deposits containing them were separated by intervals of time.
No less than forty species of lamellibranchiate molluscs, with double valves, have been collected by Mr. Bell from the various localities of the Red Crag. At and near the base of the Red Crag is a loose bed of brown nodules, first noticed by Professor Henslow as containing a large percentage of earthy phosphates.
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