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Updated: June 26, 2025
Here Marin County offers contours of dimpled velvet bursting with a gay irridescence of wildflowers. Yet that same gracious area frames the grim cliff-cup which holds San Francisco bay a spot of Dantesque sheerness and bareness. and this. This is what nature has done. But man has added his deepening touch in one direction and his enlivening touch in another.
Her eyes wandered; she looked at, but scarcely saw the lovely wildflowers under foot, the butterflies flashing their burnished wings among the sunbeams. "Drop her arm." The signaller let go and stood at attention. "Take her knife and pistol and your flags and go across the stream to the hut."
To-day, as he wandered here and there, over hill and down dale, he missed Trot and Cap'n Bill, of whom he was fond, but nevertheless he was not unhappy. The birds sang merrily and the wildflowers were beautiful and the breeze had a fragrance of new-mown hay. "The only bad thing about this country is its King," he reflected; "but the country isn't to blame for that."
The happy wives of young engineers, who had been tented along the line during the summer, watched the wildflowers fade with a feeling of loneliness and deep longing for their stout-hearted, strong-limbed husbands, who were away up in the cloud-veiled hills; and they longed, too, for other loved ones in the lowlands of their childhood.
Now, in a room full of people, she was standing on a veille flourished with posies of broom and wildflowers, and Philip was there beside her, and he was holding her hand, and they were waiting and waiting for some one who never came.
Now, in a room full of people, she was standing on a veille flourished with posies of broom and wildflowers, and Philip was there beside her, and he was holding her hand, and they were waiting and waiting for some one who never came.
"Come, quick, darling; Monsieur Jacques Dechartre dines at the house to- night, and I should not like to make him wait." And while they were driving through the silence of the night, through the pathways full of the fresh perfume of wildflowers, she said: "Do you see over there, darling, the black distaffs of the Fates, the cypresses of the cemetery? It is there I wish to sleep."
In Margrave there seemed to be wanting that mysterious something which is needed to keep our faculties, however severally brilliant, harmoniously linked together, as the string by which a child mechanically binds the wildflowers it gathers, shaping them at choice into the garland or the chain. "According to the views we have mentioned, we must ascribe life to a gas, that is, to an aeriform body."
Our Protestant clergy never hesitate to make the dogmas and superstitions of the Catholic Church seem as absurd as possible, and why should not those who imagine they have outgrown Protestant superstitions make them equally ridiculous? Whatever is true can stand investigation and ridicule. In the last of April, when the wildflowers were in their glory, Mrs.
With this new attraction, and wildflowers in the woods, the tying up of raspberries became weary prose to Winnie and Bobsey; but I kept them at it during most of the forenoon of every pleasant day and if they performed their task carelessly, I made them do it over.
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