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He was at me in an instant, knocking me to the floor, so that the breath went out of me, and was pounding me vigorously ere I recovered from the shock and astonishment of it and began to defend myself. He was taller than I, and wiry, but not so rugged. Yet there was a look about him that was far beyond his strength.
Vauxe stood in a large park, studded with stately trees; here and there an avenue of Spanish chestnuts or a grove of oaks; sometimes a gorsy dell, and sometimes a so great spread of antlered fern, taller than the tallest man. It was only twenty miles from town, and Lord St.
This old pocket-book tells me she was born on the 5th of May, in the year 18 , eighteen years ago. It is strange; I had lost the just reckoning of her age. I thought of her as twelve fourteen an indefinite date; but she seemed a child." "She is about eighteen," I repeated. "She is grown up; she will be no taller."
"Well, I got that up there fighting the fire on the mountain that was trying to wipe out the home of Mrs. Heffner, a widow." "Good for you, Billy!" exclaimed the taller guard, for by now they had come to know the scouts by their several names, feeling quite at home in the temporary camp. "I'd like to wager that there must have been some tall doings when you got busy with the water pails.
Through the peach orchard I rode, where the trees perhaps the same, perhaps others were once more in bloom, for the season of the year was that when Marie and I first met, nor did I draw rein for half a score of miles. But here I may state that Marie always stayed just half an inch the taller in body, and how much taller in mind and spirit I cannot tell.
Besides, he was a much taller man. With a cry of surprise I pointed him out to the baronet, but in the instant during which I had turned to grasp his arm the man was gone. There was the sharp pinnacle of granite still cutting the lower edge of the moon, but its peak bore no trace of that silent and motionless figure.
George Kitwater. When I had finished the letter I was in the act of dictating, I bade the clerk admit them, and a moment later the blind man and his companion whom I had seen on Ludgate Hill the previous evening, were ushered into my presence. I cannot remember a more venerable appearance than that presented by the taller man.
'Oh, yes, Madame, he is taller than I. 'They say he is cruel. Did you do you think him cruel? 'Madame, no, no. 'He is a poet, they say. Has he made many songs of me? Jehane murmured her doubts, exquisitely confused. 'Fifty poets, continued nestling Berengère, 'have made songs of me. There is a wreath of songs. They call me Frozen Heart: do you know why? They say I am too proud to love a poet.
They seem so close together, so thickened and matted, impenetrable to footsteps, like a mound of earth rather than woods, a solid block of wood; but there are ways that wind through and space between the taller trunks when you come near. The odour of firs is variable; sometimes it fills the air, sometimes it is absent altogether, and doubtless depends upon certain conditions of the atmosphere.
He was just above the tops of the maples, which seen from this angle stretched away like a forest through which occasionally thrust roofs and spires. Some distance beyond a number of taller buildings and the red of bricks were visible. Beyond them still were other sand-hills, planted raggedly with wind-twisted and stunted trees.
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