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Updated: June 10, 2025
I was more helpless and flew lightlier than a shred of thistledown among the stars. All night long, I could not sleep for love of you; nor had I any desire of sleep, save that it might take me to you in a dream. I remember nothing that happened to me this morning before I found myself at your door." "Why did you ring the bell? Why didn't you walk away?" "Why?
Once, twice it swished; the third time it alighted like thistledown on the surface. There was a tiny splash, a laugh, and the little greenheart rod flicked a trout high over his head. It was the merest baby half-an-ounce, perhaps and it fell from the hook into the herbage some yards from the stream. "Little ass!" said Maynard. "That was meant for your big brother."
He is so old, and helpless, Derry, like the poor pussy-cat over there in France. His eyes are like that hungry, and they beg . And oh, Derry, I mustn't be like Polly Ann, on a pink cushion ." She tried to laugh and broke down. He caught her up in his arms. Light as thistledown, young and lovely! She sobbed on his heart, but she held to her high resolve. He must go and she would stay.
The dog Balthasar stretched and looked up at his master. The thistledown no longer moved. The dog placed his chin over the sunlit foot. It did not stir. The dog withdrew his chin quickly, rose, and leaped on old Jolyon's lap, looked in his face, whined; then, leaping down, sat on his haunches, gazing up. And suddenly he uttered a long, long howl.
To Bobinette, the abject creature grovelling in the mire of the roadway, the bells sounded vaguely serene, far, far away.... She seemed to be floating in some indefinable element, floating like thistledown on an irresistible breeze.... Suddenly she had the sensation that she was sinking, falling, that she was rolling down, down, into the depths of a bottomless abyss....
Now the lovers mounted and were off like thistledown ere Blaise put foot to stirrup. "Blaise," said I. "Ohe!" said he, pausing. " if, upon this pleasurable occasion, I were to borrow your horse " "Impossible!" "If I were to take it by force " I exhibited my coin. "Eh?" " no one could blame you." "And yet perhaps "
Far away on the left he saw a line of dark bulks wild hog, perhaps, galloping down the valley, but of that he said nothing, nor did he remark again upon the uneasiness of the horses. And then he saw first one and then a second great white ball, a great shining white ball like a gigantic head of thistledown, that drove before the wind athwart the path.
At first I floated aimlessly as thistledown, then I passed over the wall and took a south-west direction, the direction of Oceanica; I had no trace of wings, and I lay on my back in an agony of dizziness and nausea as I travelled with frightful rapidity, with the swiftness of a stone shot from a sling.
His daughter interrupted him. "Oh!" was all she said, and sped by him like a bit of blown thistledown, into the house. He grasped at her as she passed him; then suddenly he made other gestures, and, like Kitty Silver, used Jacobean phrases.
The whole affair resembled nothing which he had ever conceived of either in the air, the earth, or the waters under the earth, the bizarre invention of a superhuman mind. It seemed as firmly anchored and as immovable as the Eiffel Tower, and yet Bennie knew that the thing could lift itself into the air and sail off like a ball of thistledown before a breeze.
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