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Red-roofed old houses, once the haunts of fashion, were clustered near the water but divided from it now by tram-lines, companion anachronisms to the steamers entering and leaving the docks, but by the farther shore, one small strip of river was allowed to flow in its own way, and it skirted meadows rising to the horizon and carrying with them more of those noble elms in which the whole countryside was rich.
The girls were scattered about under the trees, but Rhoda skirted round the paths so as to avoid them as much as possible, and presently came to a sheltered spot, where Dorothy lay swinging to and fro in a most superior Canadian hammock which had been sent from Erley Chase at the beginning of the summer weather.
We skirted a coast of almost vertical cliffs crowned by cocoas, the faces of the rock black or covered above the waterline with vines and plants, green and luxuriant. Long stretches of white curtains and huge pictures in curious outlines were painted on the sable cliffs by encrusted salt.
We may gather pearls of wisdom from amid the ashes and cinders of our lost hopes, after the fires have consumed them." Mr. Markland sighed deeply, but did not answer. There was a dark sky above and around him; yet gleams of light skirted a cloud here and there, telling him that the great sun was shining serenely beyond. He felt weak, sad, and almost hopeless, as he parted from Mr.
And in his sleep his father drew himself up suddenly, showing his terrible white face, and clutched at little Robert Stonehouse, who skirted him and ran screaming down the dark stairs. "You can't you can't you're dead. I'm grown up I'm free I'm not like you you can't you can't " But the next morning he was himself again, sure and cool-headed and cool-hearted.
The little boks, however, were not on the knoll that day, so away we went again at a gallop until the garden and the farm went down on the horizon. Sometimes we kept together and chatted, at other times we diverged and skirted small clumps of underwood on opposite sides. At one time, while separated from Bonny, I saw a large stone lying on the ground. As I looked, the stone began to crawl!
I skirted the wood in company with Lucien, who was the first to discover a West Indian cherry-tree Malpighia glabra. The red fleshy and acid fruit was much to our taste; so the boy climbed the tree in order to get plenty, rejoicing in the idea of giving his friends an agreeable surprise. When he had finished, we went to examine a dead tree.
I thought I'd tell ye, in case ye didn't want to see 'em, and wanted to go to work on your sermon." Thomas made an impatient ejaculation as he strode off. When he reached the large white house where he lived he skirted it carefully.
Here and there through the thicket wandered well beaten trails, wide, but low, so that to follow them one would have to bend double. These were the paths of rhinoceroses. The air smelt warm and moist and earthy, like the odour of a greenhouse. We skirted this jungle until it gave way to let the plain down to the river.
She was laughing and talking with the driver, and he, from time to time, cast up at her ardent glances of admiration glances that won instant smiles and soft blushes in response. The cart presently turned into the roadway that skirted the edge of the wood where we were sitting.
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