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Fine flat sand, never a cat's paw, trees all around of it, and flowers a-blowing like a garding on that old ship." "And once beached," I inquired, "how shall we get her off again?" "Why, so," he replied: "you take a line ashore there on the other side at low water, take a turn about one of them big pines; bring it back, take a turn around the capstan, and lie to for the tide.
He was aroused next morning by the sweetest of country sounds the sound of a scythe upon the lawn. Then there came the distant call of the street flower-seller, "All a-growing, all a-blowing," which he remembered as long as he could remember anything. The world was waking up, but it was yet early not more than half-past six at the very latest.
'Them's her lights, Miss Abbey, wot you see a-blinking yonder, cried another. 'She's a-blowing off her steam, Miss Abbey, and that's what makes the fog and the noise worse, don't you see? explained another. Boats were putting off, torches were lighting up, people were rushing tumultuously to the water's edge. Some man fell in with a splash, and was pulled out again with a roar of laughter.
I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing, but I cross it like a cart-path in the woods. I will not have my eyes put out and my ears spoiled by its smoke and steam and hissing.
And even there it looks like a terrific gale coming up. But there's the moon overhead. Just as it was just now. Bright as midday. But as for the rest Where's the village? Where's where's anything? And what on earth set this wind a-blowing? I didn't order no wind." Mr. Fotheringay struggled to get to his feet in vain, and after one failure, remained on all fours, holding on.
Cuttings he called them, but the back of the waggon looked like a nurseryman's van; for all a-growing and a-blowing and waiting to be planted out, stood a row of flowering, well-grown plants in tins: crimson hibiscus, creepers, oleanders, and all sorts. A man is best known by his actions, and Mine Host best understood by his kindly thoughtfulness.
He was a grizzly bearded sea-captain of seventy, with manner and speech suggestive of the brine. Breaking from Parsons and Booth, I ran to meet him. He shook both my hands and then clapped me on the shoulder. "Cast up on a lee shore, are you, Roger?" he exclaimed. "And the wind a-blowing a hurricane." "Yes, I am," I replied, "and I'm mighty glad you've come, Uncle Enos."
There's never any hurry; the wind's a-blowing free; everything's sweet and careless and so am I." And he chuckled happily to himself. "Let's begin at once!" cried Tim impatiently. "I feel warm already hot all over simply burning." The Tramp signified his agreement. "But you must each get a feather first," he told them, "a feather that a bird has dropped. It's a sign that we belong together.
Anne: I'm fly, don't you make no mistake about it. I'm all a-growing and a-blowing, I am. 'Not one foot of you, said I. 'You are a prisoner, Rowley, and make up your mind to that. So am I, or next door to it. I showed it you for a caution; if you go on the streets, it spells death to me, Rowley. 'If you please, sir, says Rowley.
They fared on all that night till the morning morrowed when lo! they found themselves in a green and smiling country, full of trees spireing and birds quiring and garths fruit-growing and palaces highshowing and waters a-flowing and odoriferous flowers a-blowing.
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