United States or Madagascar ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
At last it came loose in his hand; and the red stone was as bright as a big star on the edge of the sky, and the gold was heavy in his palm. So he hid the ring in his vest. But the finger he dropped in a cluster of blue-berry bushes not far from the path.
That moment's regret had brought her to her senses. The blood came quickly to her face, as she thought how intimately they had talked within so short a time. Reviewing it as with a searchlight that strides across the sky she scarcely believed that it was true. In just an hour, she had told him as much more than she had told Miss Hallard. Had she changed?
And there was blue sky and gorgeousness for a little while. And then, as inevitably, as inevitably, slowly the clouds began to edge up again above the horizon, slowly, slowly to lurk about the heavens, throwing an occasional cold and hateful shadow: slowly, slowly to congregate, to fill the empyrean space.
The bright sky arched overhead, the sun shone strongly, the air moved in currents without violence. "You see where that smoke comes up between trees? That's Mother Binning's cot." "Who's she?" "She's a wise auld wife. She's a scryer. That's her ash-tree." Their path brought them by the hut and its bit of garden. Jock Binning, that was Mother Binning's crippled son, sat fishing in the stream.
This was not Jim Dyckman's fear, but his own was as great, for everybody was some dreadful elbow-companion. Lucian showed Jupiter himself cowering on his throne in the sky and twiddling his thunderbolt with trembling hand as he wondered what the fates held in store for him, and saw on earth the increasing impudence of the skeptics.
Cape Sharp and Cape Split, bold promontories which stand like mighty sentinels guarding the entrance to the Bay of Fundy, appear in clearest azure and violet; while the mountains of the north shore are sharply defined in pure indigo against the brilliant sky, as the propeller steams away.
The sun stooped low in its course. Awhile the flaring disk seemed to perch itself on the far summit of the mountains in the west, brazening all the sky above the city, and rimming the walls and towers with the brightness of gold. Then it disappeared as with a plunge. The quiet turned Ben-Hur's thought homeward.
Then the old dwarf stood up in his boat and cried: "The sky is clearing to the east with crested clouds." Now this was a magic song, and as soon as he had sung it, the sea was calm and bright once more. Then the old man went on again. So great was the power of his magic words that he could calm the sea. But for all that he had no peace, by reason of the dogs.
All day they marched beneath the sunny blue sky, every evening they lit their watch-fires as a protection against wild beasts and lay down to rest beneath the stars, for "they had no cover but the heavens, nor any lodgings but those which simple nature afforded them." For a fortnight they journeyed thus through the wilderness. Then they reached the Connecticut River and their journey's end.
After lunch her father carried his guest off to smoke, and she went up to her own room to be alone, and sat in the sun by the open window, with her head resting on the back of her chair, looking up at the sky; and sighed, and smiled, and clasped her hands to her breast, and revelled in sensations.
Word Of The Day