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His stronghold was situated on the banks of the Hudson, in one of those green, sheltered, fertile nooks in which the Dutch farmers are so fond of nestling.
There her eyes were suddenly caught by something she had not seen before, a thin spiral of blue smoke that mounted slowly until it was struck and dissipated by the breeze from across the ridge. Haig's ranchhouse, surely, nestling below the hill! The house would be visible, doubtless, from the place where Haig had vanished from her sight. What would it be like? she wondered.
The church is modern, but contains on the chancel wall a monument, with a kneeling effigy, to a lady of the Portman family . Bicknoller, a little village 2-1/2 m. S.E. of Williton, nestling under the W. slopes of the Quantocks. In the churchyard is the shaft of an ancient cross.
He went in a hurry in the end, because he had dreamt that his mother was crying, and he knew what was the great thing she cried for, and that a hug from her splendid Peter would quickly make her to smile. Oh! he felt sure of it, and so eager was he to be nestling in her arms that this time he flew straight to the window, which was always to be open for him.
Dic stirred the fire, and the girl, nestling beside him, said: "Now tell me everything." "Where shall I begin?" asked Dic; and after a pause in which to find a starting-point, he said: "I have brought you a little present. I wanted to keep it till to-morrow Christmas but I find I cannot." He produced a small gold watch with the word "Rita" engraved upon the lid.
Then, nestling up to him with her head on his breast, a favourite position, she said, "I got it from different sources, I think, papa." "Let us hear, for instance." "I think, partly from the Bible, papa and partly from what we were talking of yesterday." "I wish you would show me where you found it in the Bible. I don't remember a strawberry feast there." "Do you mean it in earnest, papa?"
There it was deep in a cove, on the right bank of the river, a little group of tiny buildings nestling in at the foot of a mountain of solid rock. It seemed almost microscopic in the midst of such surroundings. The tide was low and a great, boulder- strewn, mud flat stretched from side to side of the cove.
She held out her arms in the cuckoo's direction, as if she expected his neck to be about the size of a Shetland pony's, or a large Newfoundland dog's; and, to her astonishment, so it was! A nice, comfortable, feathery neck it felt so soft that she could not help laying her head down upon it, and nestling in the downy cushion. "That's right," said the cuckoo.
We crossed the moonlit field and for a brief moment silence fell, as though an audience were holding its breath watching us. On the other side were cottages, the outskirts of a tiny village. Here beside these cottages we fell into a fantastic world. That small village must in other times have been a pretty place, nestling with its gardens by the river under the hill.
On every field the signs of coming harvest were luxuriantly visible, the hay fields, grey-green with blooming "Timothy" and purple with the deep nestling clover, the fall wheat green and yellowing into gold, the spring wheat a lighter green and bursting into head, the oats with their graceful tasselated stalks, the turnip field ribboned with its lines of delicate green on the dark soil drills, back of all, the "slashing" where stumps, blackened with fire, and trunks of trees piled here and there in confusion, all overgrown with weeds, represented the transition stage between forest and harvest field, and beyond the slashing the dark cool masses of maple, birch, and elm; all these made a scene of such varied loveliness as to delight the soul attuned to nature.
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