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Her features are like sculptured marble and her mouth is a trembling, curving Cupid's bow. Her voice is like the ripple of a woodland brook and her slender form is matchless in its symmetry. She dresses so nicely and looks so stylish in her clothes. Her favourite colour is blue. Some people think she is stiff and some say she is stuck-up, but she isn't a bit.
And you, just awake to the world, have yet the innocence of that little boy who sank into the strange and long stupor. If you changed I think I could not bear it!" "I will not change." A stir which must have been widening through the house as a ripple widens on a lake, struck us, and turned our faces with all others to a man who stood in front of the chimney.
Hardly a ripple of indignation was perceptible on the calm surface of affairs, although in the States-General as in the States of Holland his absence seemed to have reduced both bodies to paralysis. They were the more easily handled by the prudent, skilful, and determined Maurice.
Then, too, comes the saddening reflection, to which so many have given expression, that these trees will put forth their leaves, the slant sunshine still fall upon green meadows and banks of flowers, and the song of the birds and the ripple of waters still be heard after our eyes and ears have closed forever. It is hard for us to realize this.
He returned on the run with a big-game rifle in time to hear a ripple of relief run from end to end of the ship; and his eyes opened wide with astonishment when he saw the cause. Other muddy logs had come to life on the foreshore and Little's attitude would have been ludicrous but for the terrible risk he ran.
Yet I know too, that those keen eyes of his did not miss the sullen glances of the slaans. The weather, as always in the Venus Central State, was warm a luxurious tropic warmth. And now I felt as I had seen from above the languorous, sensuous quality of it all. Music, mingled with the ripple of girlish laughter and cheers, came from the houses as we passed. Soft, fragrant flower-petals deluged us.
The slant sunlight met their faces, and the mists were lifting in a curtain, with a riffle of wind that ran through the grasses like the ripple of waves to the touch of unseen feet.
"Nowhere," says Millie. "We're tryin' to break in." "Oh!" says I. "Candidates for amateur night?" "Not much!" says Millie. "We're as good as any. Maurice ain't got a thing on us, honest; nor that Ripple combination, either. Why, we got steps of our own that the rest haven't thought of!" "Ye-e-es?" says I. "Oh, I know," says she, shruggin' her shoulders.
Indeed, half the zest of brook fishing is in your campaign for "individuals," as the Salvation Army workers say, not merely for a basketful of fish qua fish, but for a series of individual trout which your instinct tells you ought to lurk under that log or be hovering in that ripple. How to get him, by some sportsmanlike process, is the question.
Its gurgle and ripple sounded in his ears like mocking laughter, and the great brooding forest in its intense silence seemed in league with the stream. Of what avail were all his mighty efforts? He had escaped from the tangle of the forest, only to be lured to ruin by the river. The afternoon waned, and night drew near, and still the raft swept onward.
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