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It is safe to say that the old garden had never before even dreamed of such a celebration as the one that took place that afternoon behind its moss-coated walls. The time-stained statue of Eve, which stood on one side of the fountain, looked across at the weather-beaten figure of Adam, on the other side, in stony-eyed surprise.
She was ill-favored enough to look at, that hulk weather-beaten, begrimed, stripped of all that makes a ship sightly. Nothing but the worn-out old hull was left. An eyesore, truly. Yet, any seaman could see with half an eye she had once been a fine ship. The clipper lines were there. Suddenly Briggs sat up in his chair, and exclaimed, "Well, blast my eyes, so it is!"
He was terribly squalid, terribly; and when I had a glimpse of his face, it well befitted the rest of his development, grizzled, wrinkled, weather-beaten, yet sallow, and down-looking, with a watchful kind of eye turning upon everybody and everything, meeting the glances of other people rather boldly, yet soon shrinking away; a long thin nose, a gray beard of a week's growth; hair not much mixed with gray, but rusty and lifeless; a miserable object; but it was curious to see how he was not ashamed of himself, but seemed to feel that he was one of the estates of the kingdom, and had as much right to live as other men.
No enjoyments have greater zest than these, snatched in the very midst of difficulty and danger; and it is probable the poor wayworn and weather-beaten travellers relished these creature comforts the more highly on account of the surrounding desolation and the dangerous proximity of the Crows.
The barn, rickety, weather-beaten, deserted, and vacant, still remained, of the fashion common to the region, with a loft above, and an open wagonway between the two compartments below, and it was here that the inquest was held.
But where man had been neglectful, nature had lavished wealth, performing great feats in the way of landscape gardening. On all sides, the vale was held in by encircling hills. The eastern boundary was steep and straight and was known as Arrow Hill. On its summit stood a gaunt old pine stump, scarred and weather-beaten.
There are some of us who, loyal ever to the love rooted deep in our hearts, thus keep green the memory of those 'faces we have loved long since, and lost awhile! 'She's rare and sweet, is Miss Theedory, murmured the weather-beaten old man, when the sisters had disappeared, and he turned to fasten the boat to the pier-head.
He put his wooden buck down, and, hanging his saw on a nail on the side of the house, came in. "Mother," he called, in German, and, then not seeing her, he came to the door of the front room and looked in. Brander arose and extended his hand. The knotted and weather-beaten German came forward, and took it with a very questioning expression of countenance. "This is my father, Mr.
The weather-beaten roofs and glimpses of dusty tree-tops that formed the view reminded her of the sorrowful days she had passed in Mrs Lee's attic-nursery, and a feeling very like the old miserable home-sickness of that time made her close her eyes and drop her face upon her hands. Poor Christie!
Gideon led his horse across the inclosure, stumbling over the heaps of rubbish, dried chips, and weather-beaten shavings with which it was strewn, until he reached the unfinished barn, where he temporarily bestowed his beast.
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