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The greyness and rawness of their environment are not touched upon. Marcus Clarke could never have shown the Australian people so much of the beauty of their strange fauna and flora as can be found in Geoffry Hamlyn. He would have allowed the budding civilisation of the country to be swallowed up in sombre desolate forests, or appear as lonely specks on bleached and thirsty plains.
There is a promontory standing out from the main wall, whence you can see the side of the cliff, getting a flank view, as from a tower. The jackdaws occasionally floating out from the ledge are as mere specks from above, as they were from below.
He said that that little thread had silver in it, mixed with base metal, such as lead and antimony, and other rubbish, and that there was a speck or two of gold visible. After a great deal of effort we managed to discern some little fine yellow specks, and judged that a couple of tons of them massed together might make a gold dollar, possibly. We were not jubilant, but Mr.
"What! At five cents apiece?" exclaimed Hiram. "Guess not. Go look in the basket under the bench; maybe there's a specked one there." "Nope. Dad took 'em all home last night and maw cut out the specks and sliced 'em for supper. Gimme a good orange." "Ask your father," said Hiram. "Naw, I won't!" declared young Dwight, knowing very well what his father's answer would be.
He stopped to read the words, which were: "Let no knight go to the castle, for great danger is there." "Oh," said Sir Balin, "I am used to danger. I fear nothing," and he went on. Presently an old man started up beside the road. He had a long gray beard, and was dressed in a long gray robe that sparkled with little specks of frost.
The natives on their summits showed as small as crows; and the cockatoos, the eagles, and other birds, were as specks above us; the former made the valley reverberate with their harsh and discordant notes. The reader may form some idea of the height of these cliffs, when informed that the king of the feathered race made them his sanctuary.
And all the time a red glow on the horizon, a blood-red glow, and little specks of grey or brown lying all over the fields; even the cattle racing round in terror. And every now and then the cry of Death! You are fortunate in England." Philippa leaned forward. "Do you believe that our turn will come?" she asked. "Do you believe that the wave will break over our country?" "Who can tell?"
Through the thick boughs overhead the sunlight reached them only in specks and flakes, the wind was but as a distant sea in the branches, and Falbe rolled over on to his face, and sniffed at the aromatic leaves with the gusto with which he enjoyed all that was to him enjoyable. "Ah; that's good, that's good!" he said. "How I love smells clean, sharp smells like this.
Threatening waves overspread the sea, big black clouds were scudding along madly, passing on and followed by others, each of them coming down in a furious downpour. The wind whistled, moaned, laid the grass and the young crops low and carried away big white birds that looked like specks of foam and bore them far into the land.
It was plain that Donald had ta'en Nosey for ane of his ain countrymen and the thing after a' wasna greatly to be wondered at, and that for three reasons: Firstly, the shop was rather darkish. Secondly, the Heelandman had on specks, as I hae just said; and it was likely on this account that he was rather short-sighted; and
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