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Shannon. So that the public may understand and appreciate the importance of this step, I will sketch, a coups de crayon peu fondus, the portrait of a lady as I imagine Mr. Shannon might have painted her. A woman of thirty, an oval face, and a long white brow; pale brown hair, tastefully arranged with flowers and a small plume.
By and by a plume of smoke rose above the trees and something twinkled in an opening. A rhythmic snorting and a rumble pierced the throb of the river, and Kerr looked up the track. "The engineer's bringing her along fast. Shall I flag him to snub her and shut the throttle before he runs across the new stuff?" "No," said Festing quietly. "It won't be needful."
He moved his whip like a fishing rod over the upright plume, increasing the steed's pace with a professional howl.... And as though his cry were among the sweetest of melodies, he continued talking, by association of ideas: "At the fiesta of Piedigrotta, when I was a boy, were given out the best songs of the year.
And the will of the wind of the autumn was wrought upon the poppies, and the heads of the poppies that rose from the earth went down to the earth again, as the plume of a warrior smitten in a heathen fight far away, where there are none to lament him.
I fancy my patriarch as belonging to their lodge, nor would I be surprised to learn that when its first plume appeared above the ledges Indian tepees were the only human habitations of the region. The red cedar seems to have a power to fix itself on a rough ledge and grow there year after year and indeed century after century, that is far greater than that of any other tree.
"None who would remember me; not a soul, at least, in St. Lide's." "There is the Plume of Feathers Inn, to be sure " "If you recommend it," she said, demurely, as he hesitated. He almost lost his temper. "Recommend it? Of course I don't." "Well, from what I remember of the Plume of Feathers unless it has altered "
She had lost one of her children through diphtheria, and she knew, unless a miracle happened, that she would also lose the boy. Only look at him! She told you in that dull, toneless voice of hers how sturdy he had been, how strong and masterful how pretty, too, with his plume of fair hair tumbling into his big, shining, grey eyes!
They plume them-selves on their gentility there, I can tell you, if that's any satisfaction. I made allowance for Steerforth's light way of treating the subject, and, considering it with reference to the staid air of gravity and antiquity which I associated with that 'lazy old nook near St.
She wore a green soldier-cap with a purple plume in it and looked so royal and dignified that everyone in Oogaboo except the Army was glad she was going. The Army was sorry she was not going alone. "Form ranks!" she cried in her shrill voice. Salye leaned out of the palace window and laughed. "I believe your Army can run better than it can fight," she observed.
Many of the riders being of the reformed religion, refused moreover to fire upon the Huguenots, and discharged their carbines in the air. The king, whose glance on the battle-field was like inspiration, saw the blot and charged upon them in person with his whole battalia of cavalry. The veteran Biron followed hard upon the snow-white plume.
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