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'Up a hill perpendicular, like Hotspur, he replied, in soft low quiet tones, which were a strange contrast to the words. 'No, see here, and parting the bushes he showed some rude steps, half nature, half art, leading between the ferns and mountain-ash, and looking very inviting. 'How delightful! cried Mary. 'I am glad you appreciate it, he exclaimed; 'I will finish it off now, and put a rail.
He is as swift as an eagle, strong as mountain-ash, keen as a fox, and absolutely tireless and implacable." "How long have you been here, Colonel Zane?" "More than twelve years, and it has been one long fight." "I'm afraid I'm too late for the fun," said Joe, with his quiet laugh. "Not by about twelve more years," answered Colonel Zane, studying the expression on Joe's face.
"Ay, and I, as I said before, have sewed a sprig of the mountain-ash into his collar," said the good woman, "which will avail more than your clerkship, I wus; but for all that, it is ill to seek the devil or his mates either."
It is glorious to see the abandonment of Nature in this extravagance of vegetation, this wild luxuriance of flowers and foliage; the trees stretch out their arms, breed and intertwine in the most fantastic manner; the branches make a hundred curiously-distorted turns, and interlace in beautiful disorder; sometimes hanging the red berries of the mountain-ash among the silver foliage of the aspen.
The four posts of the wooden bed, which stood in one corner of the room, had been trimmed by the busy little fingers, with smaller and more flexible branches of the pine-trees. A small bouquet of red mountain-ash berries stood at each side of the fireplace, and these, together with the trimmed posts of the bed, gave the plain old room quite a festival look.
We, have smaller masses of colour in our hawthorn and crab trees, our holly and mountain-ash, our boom; foxgloves, primroses, and purple vetches, which clothe with gay colours the whole length and breadth of our land, These beauties are all common. They are characteristic of the country and the climate; they have not to be sought for, but they gladden the eye at every step.
He knew how his unaccustomed hands had laboured with the spade at forming a little primitive bridge over the beck in the hollow before winter streams should make it too deep for fording; how he had cut down branches of the mountain-ash and covered them over, yet decked with their scarlet berries, with sods of green turf, beyond which the brilliancy crept out; but now it was months and years since he had been in that garden, which had lost its charm for Sylvia, as she found the bleak sea-winds came up and blighted all endeavours at cultivating more than the most useful things pot-herbs, marigolds, potatoes, onions, and such-like.
Frost, tell him he must not talk so wrongly, so extravagantly, I mean. 'It may be wrong; it is not extravagant. It falls only too far short of my feeling! What will the Terrace be without you? 'It will not be without my thoughts. How often I shall think I see the broad road, and the wide field, and the mountain-ash berries, that were reddening when we came; and the canary in the window!
He had not yet seen her; but now, as the train stopped, she forced her way to him. Amazed at meeting her, he returned her greeting, and granted her request to let her speak with him a few minutes. Greatly perplexed, he swung himself from the saddle, flung his bridle to a groom, and followed her under a mountain-ash tree which stood by the roadside.
But then he clapped his hands with surprise and delight and shouted: "Keeper! Keeper! There's quite a garden up here. There are the loveliest strawberries beside the black-currant-bush ... and here's a little mountain-ash ... and a dear little oak ... and weeds, too ... five yellow dandelions ... and a spike of barley, keeper.... Oh, how glorious, how glorious!
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