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Henry VII was quite as much interested, and young Russell's fortune was made. He stayed with the court until the next reign, and at the Dissolution got Woburn Abbey, a property still in the hands of his great family. Continuing up the Cerne valley, Godmanstone, a village of picturesque gables and colourful roofs, is about four and a half miles from Dorchester.
It's the kind of place this weird alley of colourful rock where you feel things must happen, and I determined they should happen; a hidden place you are surprised at being able to enter, as if the door had been shut by enchantment a few million years, and then forcibly opened for modern motorists.
The economics, the politics, the geopolitics, the conspiracies, the corruption, the old and the new, the plough and the internet it is all here, in colourful and provocative prose. From "The Mind of Darkness": "'The Balkans' I say 'is the unconscious of the world'. People stop to digest this metaphor and then they nod enthusiastically.
Just as the elephant lunged out to take her stride, the colourful voice that she had never refused to obey said: "Come near, Mitha Baba, come near!" Mitha Baba was not sure about it; she struck the voice aside with her head. But the voice was saying: "Mitha Baba, you may take me with you!"
They've got one hundred fathoms of shell money on his head now, which is worth one hundred pounds sterling. Yet he goes into Suu regularly. He was there a short time ago, returning thirty boys from Cape Marsh that's the Fulcrum Brothers' plantation." "At any rate, his news to-night has given me a better insight into the life down here," Joan said. "And it is colourful life, to say the least.
Set out by this background of colourful lapel was a huge yellow chrysanthemum, while on the broad red band that diagonally traversed his shining shirt front glittered like a decoration, the insignia from his Swalecliffe uniform cap. "Good evenin', folks," was his cheerful greeting. "If you-all is quite ready fo' dis see-ance, an' provided mah er wuthy opponent am ready, Ah'd jes' as soon proceed."
"If we don't he's likely to mutiny. There's Coney over there, fellows." The others gathered on the port side to gaze across the water at the crowded beach and the colourful maze of buildings. "It looks jolly, doesn't it?" asked Han. "Couldn't we run in closer, Steve?" "We could, but it would take us out of our course. I'm heading for Rockaway Point over there.
And you have everything else young, strong, graceful, clear." "What d'you mean by that?" "Clear? Fresh and colourful like the sunset over the desert. Do you understand?" Her eyes went down to consider. "I s'pose I do." "With a touch of awe in it, because the silence and the night are coming, and the stars walk down, one by one one by one.
Richard, who invariably brought home adverse reports from school, could find no fault in his colourful sister, and blindly espoused her cause at all times. On one occasion, when Malcolm had been more than usually censorious, Dick challenged him to a fight.
It is also to be observed now and then that a lady in uniformed service appears to regard it as an added military touch to swing a cane. Women as well as men play their part in the colourful story of the cane. The shepherdess's crook might be regarded as the precursor of canes for ladies.
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