United States or Cabo Verde ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"It took many a grunt to make the money," said Jabel Blake, "and it's natural to growl at the loss of it." By this time they had come to the street, and there in a livery barouche were the superb broad shoulders, fringed from above with fleece-white hair, of Judge Dunlevy.
Now the breeze that blows over Green Island drops away, and the smoke of the eight smudge-kettles falls like a thick curtain. The canoes, the dark shores of Norcross Point, the twin peaks of Spencer Mountain, the dim blue summit of Katahdin, the dazzling sapphire sky, the flocks of fleece-white clouds shepherded on high by the western wind, all have vanished.
For one moment each had been held prisoner then now it was for longer. "Alys of the Sea-Blue Eyes." Betty tried to release herself, but could not. "Sometimes the sea is grey," she said. His own eyes were still in hers. "Hers were the colour of the sea on a day when the sun shines on it, and there are large fleece-white clouds floating in the blue above.
Word Of The Day