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Updated: May 15, 2025
A moment later Dicky was fluttering about the eaves; his circles grew smaller, his winging less rhythmic, till at last with a nervous little flutter he perched on the top of the window shutter, so near that they might have reached to him with their hands. He sat there with his head cocked to one side. "Dicky!" called Sara again. This time she held out her finger.
Then raise the rosy goblet high, The senior's chalice and belie The tongues that trouble and defile, For we have yet a little while To linger, you and youth and I, In college days. A group of oarsmen down on the lawn caught up the song and sent it winging through the twilight, soberly, impressively, with ever-surging harmony. College days! For a moment a dim light burned in the back of his mind.
The fragment from the railroad ticket hinted that the institution might be out of town. Fuller's research placed two such institutions. The ticket counter at the railroad office narrowed it down to one. The conductor of the train all but put his hand on the man." There was a short silence. Then Pendleton drew a long breath. "Well, Kirk," said he. "I don't mind admitting that you have me winging.
When, at last, he was able to bring his winging thoughts down from the clouds to earth, it was to discover still another unsuspected trait in the woman who had become his all; for Smiles, eager and excited, was still dwelling in a world of romance, and she insisted upon recounting what had happened, almost verbatim, and in a dramatic manner quite unlike the simplicity which naturally characterized her speech.
The girl turned her back upon it with almost a sob, and gazed out upon the terraced hillside and the lake, the latter already darkening. The shadows on the farther shore were heavy, but here and there a point of sudden light showed a farmhouse. A belated bird, winging its way homeward, called shrilly. The breeze sobbed in the nearby tree-tops, and then died suddenly.
As if 'twa'n't enough she should send Andy to his death o' drownding " "Well, I hope she's satisfied, what she's done for Joshua. I saw him to the post-office last evening, and the hang-dog look of him " "Yes, I saw him, too. A man can't stand being made a fool of...." So, in the blue of a wash-day morning the words went winging back and forth between the blossoming lines.
Citizens crowd the decks of boats that are not to go, in order to see the sight. Steamer after steamer falls into line, and the stately procession goes winging its flight up the river.
And to be a girl, with a woman's broader vision and receptiveness of soul, with knowledge of evil, and winging to ethereal happiness, this was a revelation of our human powers. She attributed the change to the influences of nature's beauty and grandeur.
The bird rose majestically upward, and then, drawing in its long neck, was seen winging its way toward the lower end of the valley. It was observed that before parting with the bird Carlos had plucked from its shoulders the long gossamer-like feathers that distinguish the heron species. These he was tying into a plume.
Pendleton had seen Jason on the stile, with his hat in one hand and his bridle reins in the other, and Marjorie halting suddenly on her way to the house and wheeling impetuously back toward him. To the mother's amazement and dismay she saw that they were quarrelling quarrelling as only lovers can. The girl's face was flushed with anger, and her red lips were winging out low, swift, bitter words.
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