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Updated: May 27, 2025
To the north and south Claude could see the corn-planters, moving in straight lines over the brown acres where the earth had been harrowed so fine that it blew off in clouds of dust to the roadside. When a gust of wind rose, gay little twisters came across the open fields, corkscrews of powdered earth that whirled through the air and suddenly fell again.
"You do not love her, you are sure?" she said, looking up at me when we came to the darker turn of the stairs, for the corkscrews were narrower in the ancient castle than in the new palace below. "Not a bit!" said I, heartily, without any more pretence that I did not understand what she meant. She pressed my hand again, momentarily slipping her own down off my arm to do it.
Three minutes later, they were swinging cautiously along the four-foot track that corkscrews down to the level of the Mall, the foremost man thrusting the lantern well ahead, with the sole result that a great white circle showed weirdly upon the curtain of mist, through which they journeyed by faith, and not by sight.
To understand the exquisite beauty of simple green grass, you must travel through eight hundred miles of sage-brush and grama, the former, the homely gray-leaved plant of our Eastern goose-stuffing, grown into a dwarf tree six feet high, with a twisted trunk sometimes as thick as a man's body; the latter, a stunted species of herbage, growing in ash-tinted spirals, only two inches from the ground, and giving the Plains an appearance of being matted with curled hair or gray corkscrews.
Faces white and pale faces the color of Parmesan cheese faces encircled by hair flaxen, golden, red, and yellowish large shaven faces with beards below the chin eyes so light that one has to look closely to see the pupil sturdy women, plump, pink-cheeked, and placid, wearing white caps and earrings shaped like corkscrews, such are the first things one observes in the crowd.
Before the country was divided into moors and forests, tenanted by makers of patent corkscrews, and boilers of patent soap, before the rivers were distributed into beats, marked off by white and red posts, there lived over to the south, under the mountains, a sportsman of athletic frame and adventurous disposition. His name I have forgotten, but we may call him Dick Lindsay.
"We all caught it in our time." "But I got it worse than any one," said Beetle. "If you want an authority on bullyin', Padre, come to me. Corkscrews brush-drill keys head-knucklin' arm-twistin' rockin' Ag Ags and all the rest of it." "Yes. I do want you as an authority, or rather I want your authority to stop it all of you." "What about Abana and Pharpar, Padre Harrison and Craye? They are Mr.
He had not a chance; he retired, and swam into the salmon-net of seductive Mrs. Blathenoy's broad bright smile. 'It's a matter of mines, and they're hovering in the attitude of the query, like corkscrews over a bottle, profoundly indifferent to blood- relationships, he said to her. 'Pray, stay and be consoled by me, said the fair young woman.
"Now THERE you are in error," said the literal Agatha, as she smoothed down Little Poll's skirts and twisted her ringlets into formal corkscrews. "Right THERE, you are in error, my dear.
Man may build churches as long as he leaves woman to decorate them. A crowning demonstration of her æsthetic faculties meet us on every festival in wreath and text and monogram, in exquisitely moulded pillars turned into grotesque corkscrews, in tracery broken by strips of greenery, in paper flowers and every variety of gilt gingerbread.
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