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And yet might we not go a step farther, and say that above the parted summits stretches the one overarching blue, uniting them both, and their roots deep down below the surface interlace and twine together?
I daresay we might have passed in the street and never known it I'm sure I must be horribly changed...." Thus Bessy discoursed, in the semi-isolation to which, under an overarching beech-tree, the discretion of their hostess had allowed the two friends to withdraw for the freer exchange of confidences. There was, at first sight, nothing in her aspect to bear out Mrs.
One very hot afternoon I lay on my canvas cot in the open, staring straight upward into the overarching greenery of the trees. This is a very pleasant thing to do.
It may be surmised that it was not so much similarity of opinion as the purity of their motives that brought the poet and statesman together. As soon as Sumner returned from Washington, in spring or summer, he would go out to call on Longfellow; and it was a pleasant sight to see them walking together on a June evening beneath the overarching elms of historic Brattle Street.
These thoughts about Arthur, like all thoughts that are charged with strong feeling, were continually recurring, and they always called up the image of the Grove of that spot under the overarching boughs where he had caught sight of the two bending figures, and had been possessed by sudden rage.
Three heavenly messengers at the humble table of one of the greatest men that ever inhabited this world a patriarch a prince the father of the faithful the friend of God venerable for age distinguished by his hospitality still more eminent for faith! their canopy the overarching sky their shelter, the wide-spreading tree flocks and herds grazing around, the indications of an industry which Providence had blessed with remarkable success and the plain of Mamre spreading its luxuriance before their eyes!
On her head for notwithstanding the trousers, she turned out to be a lady was perched a gay parti-coloured cap, fitting close round the face, and running up at the back into an overarching peak of red cloth.
The Colombo and Galle road forms an almost continuous avenue through overarching cocoanut palms, with frequent glimpses of the Indian Ocean on one side and of fresh-water ponds and small lakes on the other, the latter all alive with aquatic birds, such as water-pheasants, plovers, teal, sandlarks, and the like.
The whole river in these upper reaches is for the most part roofed in by the overarching forest. Practically the whole of Borneo, from the seacoast to the summits of the highest mountains, is covered with a dense forest. On the summits this consists of comparatively stunted trees, of which every part is thickly coated with moss.
In a moment the clear, cloudless sky, in which a stray star or so yet lingered, as if awaiting the day, vanished from our view, and we plunged into an endless avenue of mighty trees, the overarching branches forming an arcade above us. As we swept into the shadow the lamps of the coach threw the gnarled trunks into fantastic shapes, that seemed to live and move.
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