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Updated: June 10, 2025
"By the time he had collected his wits and got the dizziness out of his head, his comrades were once more going over the top. "'I must go, was Jean's reply when an officer sought to hold him back. "Gathering up all the canteens he could carry, Jean filled them with water and was over the top and out on the storm-swept field.
The loneliness of the winter had driven her like a storm-swept bird back to the enduring refuge of her Dream; but, after all, the flesh and blood presence of O'Hara could not seriously interfere with the tender and pensive visions her memory spun of the past.
The storm-swept maples repeated their "rhythmical runes of these unremembered ages." We allowed ourselves to sink soothingly beneath deep waves of primitive emotions until we seemed to perceive the sagas that the maples told the elms of a more remote history than that of the Pharaohs or storied Greece. Darkness began to settle over this lonely spot.
Having arrived at the mouth of the Dnieper, they had still six or eight hundred miles of navigation over the waves of that storm-swept sea. And then, at the close, they had to encounter, in deadly fight, all the power of the Roman empire. But unintimidated by these perils, Oleg, leaving Igor with his bride at Kief, launched his boats upon the current, and commenced his desperate enterprise.
The only arboreous growth of Tasajara clothed its banks in the shape of willows and alders that set compactly around the quaint, irregular dwelling which straggled down the ravine and looked upon a slope of bracken and foliage on either side. The transition from the black, treeless, storm-swept plain to this sheltered declivity was striking and suggestive.
With their last breath they begged, wept, cried, prayed for water. No man dared move in the storm-swept space. Here and there a heroic boy in blue caught the cry of a wounded comrade and crawled on his belly to try a rescue only to die in the embrace of his friend. When the truce was called to clear the shambles every man of the ten thousand who had fallen was dead save two.
Then her eye fell on the evening paper; perhaps that might tell that the "Utopia" was safely in port. She started to turn to the shipping news, but her gaze was caught by a headline on the first page, and she stood rigid, holding the paper in her shaking hands and trying to make sense of what she was reading. "The 'Utopia' storm-swept A passenger injured."
Then a mute sympathy sprang up in her desolate heart as she grew incorporate into this storm-swept, helpless vegetation, and she felt that she, too, like it, was the helpless prey of angry forces. The moss traversed, the twinkling lights of Rehoboth broke the darkness.
It spoilt things heretofore exquisite, by giving them too high a colour, too violent a flavour. No she didn't like it. Neither did she like herself in relation to it like this unknown, storm-swept Damaris. Nor for he, alas! couldn't escape inclusion this new, unfamiliar presentment of the man with the blue eyes.
Antony upon his mountain, we must not picture to ourselves, unless we, too, have been in the East, such a mountain as we have ever seen. We must not think of a brown northern moorland, sad, savage, storm-swept, snow-buried, save in the brief and uncertain summer months.
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