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Taking one last look at the ruin which the one night's thaw had worked, the pinnacles, and beauty, and whiteness which it had destroyed, "Courage!" he said, "for this is life." The sun was shining down; the spring rains had ceased; within less than a month winter had vanished, and summer had swept through Keewatin with a burst of gladness.
Esther was kneeling on the floor; but she turned her light blue eyes appealingly upon her sister and her lips quivered, revealing her one beautiful feature in the mobility of the lines of her mouth and in the whiteness of her teeth. "You must not expect too much of me, little sister, will you?" she pleaded.
The streets were still white after the storm; piles of new-fallen snow lay in the gutters; and when Gabriella crossed Madison Avenue, the wind was so strong that it almost lifted her from the ground. Above the shining whiteness of the streets there was a sky of spring; and spring was blossoming in the little cart of a flower vendor, which had stopped to let the traffic pass at the corner.
Why did I have a secret? and why did I tease you? Oh, Nora!" she added, terror in her tone as she noticed the increasing whiteness of Nora's pretty face, "are you in dreadful, shocking pain?" "I feel sick," said Nora, "and and faint. Can't you fetch some water. Oh, everything seems miles away. What shall I do?" "I'll go for mother," said Kitty.
A huge chandelier with prisms hung over the flowers at the centre of the table, which sparkled with glass and silver, while dishes of vermilion and yellow fruits relieved the whiteness of the cloth. Honora found herself beside Mr. Holt, who looked more shrivelled than ever in his evening clothes.
The whiteness of her skin under the caress of this hale, vigorous morning light was dazzling, pure, of a fineness beyond words. Beneath the sweet modulation of her chin, the reflected light from the burnished copper vessel she was carrying set a vibration of pale gold.
Their advances were, of course, of the most primitive as primitive and as much a matter of instinct as the nosing and sniffing of young animals. He spread and curved his red mouth and showed the healthy whiteness of his own handsome teeth as she had shown her smaller ones.
I was poor comfort to her. I marveled at her calm. As we went back to the house, she stopped to feel of her clothes to see if they was drying well, and seemed to take pride in their whiteness—she said she’d been living in a brick block, where she did n’t have proper conveniences to wash them. “The next time I saw Ántonia, she was out in the fields ploughing corn.
He saw the whiteness of her face, and all the yearnings of their separation matched it upon his. "Dorothy!" he faltered. Her father interrupted. "Tom is to explain how he has quadrupled our business in the last week." A sudden weakness seized her. She followed them unsteadily. Seated at a table, however, she was able to smile again.
The boys were not slow in obeying; there was no tablecloth but the pine table was scoured to almost perfect whiteness, and the dishes, few and poor though they were, glistened. A large dish of lettuce was set before them, then a bowl of soup at each plate, and some thick slices of brown bread. "What drink will you have?" she asked. "We prefer milk." "There is no milk.
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