pine-surrounded

Updated: May 13, 2025

But there was one scene its locality she could not tell which charmed my attention longer than all those gorgeous palaces and churches, because the fancy haunted me that I myself the preceding summer had beheld just such a humble meeting-house, in just such a pine-surrounded nook, among our own green mountains.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Twice Told Tales

But there was one scene, its locality she could not tell, which charmed my attention longer than all those gorgeous palaces and churches, because the fancy hammed me, that I myself, the preceding summer, had beheld just such a humble meeting-house, in just such a pine-surrounded nook, among our own green mountains.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Seven Vagabonds (From "Twice Told Tales")