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The unpainted shanties, the huddled, tottering dives, the tumble-down express station all, even the maudlin masquerade of the High Card Saloon were institutions inseparable from his thoughts, inviolable and sacred in the measure of his love for them. And now! Something caught in his throat and gave forth a choking sound. "But I reckon it's just as well," he said resignedly.
He knew Max Diestricht's he could well have done without the aid of the arc lamp which, even if dimly, indicated that low, almost tumble-down, two-story structure tucked away between the taller buildings on either side that almost engulfed it. It was late. The street was quiet.
Many a rod of heavy tumble-down stone wall New England Stonehenges may be seen, not as of old dividing cleared and fertile fields, but in the midst of a forest of trees or underbrush: "Far up on these abandoned mountain farms Now drifting back to forests wild again, The long gray walls extend their clasping arms Pathetic monuments of vanished men."
The floorless, tumble-down cabin was a palace, the ragged gray blankets silk, the furniture rosewood and mahogany. Each new splendor that burst out of my visions of the future whirled me bodily over in bed or jerked me to a sitting posture just as if an electric battery had been applied to me. We shot fragments of conversation back and forth at each other.
"And what is your conclusion?" "Only that it is a remarkable cow which walks, canters, and gallops. By George, Watson, it was no brain of a country publican that thought out such a blind as that! The coast seems to be clear, save for that lad in the smithy. Let us slip out and see what we can see." There were two rough-haired, unkempt horses in the tumble-down stable.
Bring up and educate a boy among those who know nothing of the refinements of life, away from the progressive examples of art and taste, in a tumble-down, unplastered, ill-heated and ventilated apartment, and he never can become, with all the aid of books and teachers, as thoroughly cultivated and fitted for the duties of life, as one who has enjoyed associations of a higher order.
There was something sad in doing this, for that 'tumble-down wave, as Charlotte called it, was rather a favourite of Amy's; it always seemed to have so much sympathy with his moods, and it was as if parting with it was resigning him to a long illness.
What nonsense to imagine that a noted and wealthy Glasgow merchant the bagman's tone was almost reverential would concern himself with the affairs of a forgotten village and a tumble-down house! Presently the train drew up at Kirkmichael station. The woman descended, and Dobson, after making sure that no one else meant to follow her example, also left the carriage.
Wouldn't you have supposed that the adventurous linguist who framed the card would have known enough to submit it to that clergyman before he sent it to the printer? Here in Milan, in an ancient tumble-down ruin of a church, is the mournful wreck of the most celebrated painting in the world "The Last Supper," by Leonardo da Vinci.
Allen hung a jewelled watch with a long gold chain about his favorite's neck, while she improvised a hornpipe around his chair. "There," said he, "is something that is worth more than Edith's farm, tumble-down cottage, roses, and all. So remember that those lips were made to kiss, not to pout with." Zell put her lips to proper uses to that extent that Mrs.
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