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She clapped her hands in delight. "Good! good! He's going to win his fight." Field laughed. "Don't bet on Williams too soon. We'll hear from him before the week is out." "When are we going to visit the camp?" she asked, changing the subject. "As soon as it warms up a little. It is too cold for you." She had a laugh at him. "You were the one who wanted to 'plunge into the snowy vistas."
But that city and its buildings, that river of which the lovely vistas, and the pools of blue water, mingled, crossed, and embraced each other, which gladdened my sight and filled me with love where are they?
We now see in the far distance the blue range of the Dauphinnois Alps, and can it be is yonder silvery glimmer on the farthest horizon the mighty Mont Blanc? Nothing can be lovelier than these wide mountain vistas, far above broad blue river, plain, and hill. Passing the stately Gothic chateau of Chateaubourg, where sojourned St.
They went farther afield; and it was given them to walk together down green vistas cut for kings, to linger on terraces with the river far below them, and the roofs of Paris in the hazy distance; that Paris, sullen so long, the mutterings of which the kings who had sat there must have heard with dread; that Paris which had finally risen in its wrath and taken the pleasure-houses and the parks for itself.
Orchids in greenhouses and on trees put forth their graceful flowers; palms of every description, candle trees with myriads of almost realistic candles which were suspended from the branches, sausage trees with veritable bolognas hanging from the limbs, bread-fruit trees, lovely vistas of the graceful banana, and groups of other foliage or shrubs surrounded us in abundance.
Such modern arrangements as the Piazza d' Azeglio and the <i>viale</i> or Avenue of the Princess Margaret please not a little, I think for what they are! and do so even in a degree, by some fine local privilege just because they are Florentine. The afternoon lights rest on them as if to thank them for not being worse, and their vistas. are liberal where they look toward the hills.
Before this façade, on the marble pavement, prance the bronze equestrian statues of two Farnesi insignificant men, exaggerated horses, flying drapery as barocco as it is possible to be in style, but so splendidly toned with verdigris, so superb in their bravura attitude, and so happily placed in the line of two streets lending far vistas from the square into the town beyond, that it is difficult to criticise them seriously.
How new and queer and puzzling. So many vistas she had dreamed of had been closed on every hand. "What's the matter with me?" The matter was that her old ideals and standards were being torn up by the roots, roots that went deep down into the soil of life in the town in Ohio. But Ethel did not think of that. She scowled and sighed. "Well, this is real! I was dreaming!
Remember the vistas opened by the Lead Trust investigation he knows where they lead and no one else does. We must put that inquiry through, no matter what it costs us, and that is why I have sent for you to take this letter to the 'Spy." Shackwell's hand drew back from the proffered envelope. "You say you don't want my advice, but you can't expect me to go on such an errand with my eyes shut.
Still further résumé of fact with regard to the main body of the Louvre, as well as with respect to its individual components, will open never-ending vistas and pageants. It is not possible in a chapter, a book or a five-foot shelf to limn all that is even of cursory interest.
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