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For desolate it was! Little could the first pioneer who had traversed it have ever imagined that the fairest prairies and the most lush water pastures were valueless compared to this gloomy land of black crag and tangled forest.
"Let's get this straight," he said, "now that we're on the subject, what about Mr. Charles Maxwell?" "I can best quote," said James with a smile, "'Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!" "That's Shakespeare." "Sorry. That's Sir Walter Scott. The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto Six, Stanza Seventeen.
or lesser motives are packed close in a tangled mass. It cannot be said that a true significance is achieved in proportion to the number of concerting themes. We might dilate on the sheer inability of the hearer to grasp a clear outline in such a multiple plot.
As I walked down to the lake, I saw that the ground on its farther side was damp and marshy, overgrown with rank grass and dismal willows. The water, which was clear enough on the open sandy side, where the sun shone, looked black and poisonous opposite to me, where it lay deeper under the shade of the spongy banks, and the rank overhanging thickets and tangled trees.
To enjoy such music, to know it at its best, you must leap in the traces, feel the swing of the poles, the pull of the whiffle-trees, the slap of the trace-bearers; and you must see the tangled street-traffic clear before you as if by the wave of a magician's wand.
Why, you told me it was a rough sort of a place; how very pretty! 'Well, you can't deny that the place is rough, said he, after a pause of much satisfaction; 'look at the log-heaps as tangled as a lady's work-basket. 'Never mind the log-heaps; the house is neat enough for a picture; and the view! what a lovely placid lake! what islands! what grand woods!
Thus some of the logs, a very few, the luckiest, drifted into the dam pond at Grand Rapids within a few days; the bulk jammed and broke and jammed again at a point a few miles below the rollways, while a large proportion stranded, plugged, caught, and tangled at the very rollways themselves. Jimmy had permitted himself two days in which to "break out" the rollways. It was done in two.
A tangled mass of twisted living rattan, is therefore, a sign that at some former period a large tree has fallen there, though there may be not the slightest vestige of it left. The rattan seems to have unlimited powers of growth, and a single plant may moult up several trees in succession, and thus reach the enormous length they are said sometimes to attain.
When Redwood came to remonstrate with her, she banged pillows about and wept and tangled her hair. "He's all right," said Redwood. "He's all the better for being big. You wouldn't like him smaller than other people's children." "I want him to be like other children, neither smaller nor bigger.
But whilst politicians were amusing themselves with fervid but useless oratory in Parliament, stirring events were taking place elsewhere. To trace in these pages even a bare outline of the main incidents of those terrible years is impossible; and yet without doing so it is not easy to obtain a correct view of the tangled skein of Irish politics at the time.
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