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He was making for a dilapidated house which stood at one of the hairpin bends of the road, and the donkey-boy, shading his eyes from the glare of the rising sun, saw him disappear into what must have been the cellar of the house, since the door through which he went was a good twenty feet beneath the level of the road.
We view with pride and satisfaction this bright picture of our country's growth and prosperity, while only a closer scrutiny develops a somber shading. Upon more careful inspection we find the wealth and luxury of our cities mingled with poverty and wretchedness and unremunerative toil.
Afterward she could not help giving them a good many of her thoughts, and she was not sure about it. As she sat with the book on the table before her, shading her eyes with her hands, she felt a little guilty and greatly interested, for the story before her was better than any story in a book. Perhaps she ought to go away, she thought again.
Although I may be unreasonable and provincial and and Western," he confessed with a twinkle for he had the characteristic national trait of shading off his most serious remarks "I have never gone so far as to declare that happiness was a question of locality." She laughed. "Nor fame." Her mind returned to the loadstar.
"My head is very bad," she said, shading her eyes and speaking in low tones: "It is no use making a fuss nothing can come of this he has not a penny. Christian will have nothing till you die, which will not be for a long time yet, if you can but avoid an apoplectic fit!" At these last words Herr Paul gave a start of real disgust.
Never did the chanted, "We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord!" appear so endlessly numerous. Under cover of my arched hands, shading my eyes, I peep at one after another of the family groups. Most of them are behind me indeed, but there are still a good many that I can get a view of sideways.
A nymph a goddess, shyly standing there, was shading her eyes with one slender hand and gazing down the path toward the golden East which was bringing to the Lady of his dreams, a flood of golden sunlight and her secret adorer, the man whose lonely young heart had throned her as its queen. Hardwicke raised his head quickly as a wild shriek sounded out upon the still morning air.
Came all in a fluster dinner, bowl of punch, and put the horses to. For all the world like a runaway match, my dear bar the bride. He brought Mr. Archer in the chay with him. 'Is that Holdaway? cried the landlord from the lighted entry, where he stood shading his eyes. 'Only me, sir, answered Nance. 'O, you, Miss Nance, he said. 'Well, come in quick, my pretty.
The garden was bounded on every side by buildings, which in places arose two stories, with verandas shading the doors and windows of the lower story, while retreating galleries, guarded by strong balustrades, adorned and protected the upper.
Colomb lives in a remarkably bright and pleasant suburb of Dublin, which not only is called a "park," as suburbs are apt to be, but really is a park, as suburbs are less apt to be. His house is set near some very fine old trees, shading a beautiful expanse of turf. He is an amateur artist of much more than ordinary skill.
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