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...avelled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have ap peared to me to be doing penance in a thou... ...some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. O... ... export such articles as the country affords, purely native products, much ice and pine timber and a little granite, always in native bottoms. These w... ...a good place for business, not solely on account of the rail road and the ice trade; it offers advantages which it may not be good policy to divulge;... ...our own driving. It is said that a flood tide, with a west erly wind, and ice in the Neva, would sweep St. Peters burg from the face of the earth. ... ...l open field in the woods where pines and hickories were springing up. The ice in the pond was not yet dis solved, though there were some open spaces... ...ing for the sun to thaw them. On the 1st of April it rained and melted the ice, and in the early part of the day, which was very foggy, I heard a stra... ...eeds, or as beneficent as that which floats over W alden 107 the farmer’s fields, then the elements and Nature her self would cheerfully accompany m... ...ose, but seek their prey now; the fox, and skunk, and rabbit, now roam the fields and woods without fear. They are Nature’s watchmen links which conn...

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... strong wind from the south was raising volumes of dust from the roads and fields, shaking the poplars and birch-trees in the garden, and whirling the... ...n I would look at the rolling stretches of ripe corn, at the dark ploughed fields 45 Tolstoy where ploughs and peasants and horses with foals were wo... ...ired and remarkably beautiful girl in a white morning wrapper was applying ice to Mamma’s head, but Mamma herself I could not see. This girl was “La B...

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...ained that the Austrian army should maneuver the previous year on the very fields where the French had now to be fought; the ad- jacent locality was k... ...ng up out of the mist. When the sun had entirely emerged from the fog, and fields and mist were aglow with dazzling light—as if he had only awaited th... ...broidered cloths. As when a window is opened a whiff of fresh air from the fields enters a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confid... ...f the dam, throwing two soldiers off their feet, and ran onto the slippery ice that covered the millpool. “Turn this way!” he shouted, jumping over th... ...e that covered the millpool. “Turn this way!” he shouted, jumping over the ice which creaked under him; “turn this way!” he shouted to those with the ... ...r him; “turn this way!” he shouted to those with the gun. “It bears!…” The ice bore him but it swayed and creaked, and it was plain that it would give... ...The men looked at him and pressed to the bank, hesitating to step onto the ice. The general on horseback at the entrance to the dam raised 110 War an... ... of blood. Nobody gave him a look or thought of raising him. “Get onto the ice, over the ice! Go on! Turn! Don’t you hear? Go on!” innumerable voices ...

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...oung cypress root uptorn, Silvanus, and Gods all and Goddesses, Who make the fields your care, both ye who nurse The tender unsown increase, and from ... ...re a lust of sovereignty E’er light upon thee, howso Greece admire Elysium’s fields, and Proserpine not heed Her mother’s voice entreating to return ... ...the barren sand. Then thou shalt suffer in alternate years The new reaped fields to rest, and on the plain A crust of sloth to harden; or, when sta... ...fuse rich to soak the thirsty soil, And shower foul ashes o’er the exhausted fields. Thus by rotation like repose is gained, Nor earth meanwhile unear... ...n either side to left and right Are traced the utmost twain, stiff with blue ice, And black with scowling storm clouds, and betwixt These and the midm... ...empen thonged Balearic sling, While snow lies deep, and streams are drifting ice. What need to tell of autumn’s storms and stars, And wherefore men ... ..., howso weighty wise, T o stir the soil when stiff with Boreas’ breath. Then ice bound winter locks the fields, nor lets The young plant fix its froze... ...der them with straw And handfuls of the fern be littered deep, Lest chill of ice such tender cattle harm With scab and loathly foot rot. Passing thenc... ...hold. Wherefore rather ye, The less they crave man’s vigilance, be fain From ice to fend them and from snowy winds; Bring food and feast them with the...

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...his hotness, The strife with the palm; The night in her silence, The stars in their calm. 6 Matthew Arnold Bacchanalia or The New Age I T... ...ight-air blows The perfume which the day forgoes. And on the pure horizon far, See, pulsing with the first-born star, The liquid sky above the hill! T... ...and-winds Sear’d his keen eyeballs; Spent is the spoil he won. For him the present Holds only pain. Two young, fair lovers, Where the warm June-wind, ... ...d yet the village churl feels the truth more than you; Who ‘s loth to leave this life Which to him little yields: His hard-task’d sunburnt wife,... ... tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth, Smiles broke from us and we had ease; The hills were round us, and the breeze ... ...loom thy prison! Forward the gracious hours have fared, And see! the sun is risen! “He breaks the winter of the past; A green, new earth appears. Mi...

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...hich, though descended from cultivated stocks, plant themselves in distant fields and forests, where the soil is favorable to them. I know of no trees... ...mselves,—to certain active boys that I know,—to the wild-eyed woman of the fields, to whom nothing comes amiss, who gleans after all the world,—and, m... ...t the wild apple, which I praise as so spirited and racy when eaten in the fields or woods, being brought into the house, has frequently a harsh and c... ...hich the sedentary would call harsh and crabbed. They must be eaten in the fields, when your system is all aglow with exercise, when the frosty weathe... ...here, who knows but you could whistle an octave higher and clearer? In the fields only are the sours and bitters of Nature appre- ciated; just as the ... ...you get home, that those which rattled in your pocket have thawed, and the ice is turned to cider. But after the third or fourth freezing and thawing ...

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...to the prison yard the breeze had brought the fresh vivifying air from the fields. But in the corridor the air was laden with the germs of typhoid, th... ...nstead of reading or writing, he left home again, and wandered through the fields and the woods. Before dinner he lay down and slept somewhere in the ... ...bout a hundred steps from the front door, came a strange sound. It was the ice breaking. Nekhludoff came down the steps and went up to the win- dow of... ...ing, being shattered to pieces mixed with the tinkling of the thin bits of ice as they broke against each other like glass. There he stood, looking at... ...From the river below the creaking and tinkling and sobbing of the breaking ice came still louder and a gurgling sound could now also be heard. The mis... ...right, clear whites. He thought of that dreadful night, with its mist, the ice breaking on the river below, and when the waning moon, with horns turne... ... dark cloud now and then covered the sun; the larks were soaring above the fields of winter corn; the forests were already covered with fresh young gr... ...resh young green; the meadows speckled with grazing cattle and horses. The fields were being ploughed, and Nekhludoff enjoyed the lovely day. But ever... ...n before, and a stream of blood rushed from his mouth. Nabatoff ran to get ice. Mary Pavlovna brought valerian drops and offered them to him, but he, ...

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...wide courtyard, over the pond and the bare young birch-trees and the great fields covered with recently fallen, thawing snow, I saw on a low hill on t... ...ho, foreseeing rain or snowy weather, floated cawing over the pond and the fields, and the tapping in the carpenter’ s shed, this bit of the world abo... ...inking at the station. At the bottom of the descent there was the crash of ice; a piece of dirty frozen snow thrown up from the road hit me a painful ... ...se or your ear out of your fur collar it will be frost-bitten; stay in the fields for one hour, you’ll be buried in the snow; while the village is jus... ...ss. The road was muddy , puddles gleamed here and there, and in the yellow fields autumn itself seemed looking out from the grass, dismal, decaying, d... ...h would be white with the first snow, and the streams would be coated with ice.… Some- where near Kursk or near Serpuhovo, exhausted and dying of hung... ... “Good-morning, papa; are you quite well?” As a child she was very fond of ice-cream, and I used often to take her to a confectioner’s. Ice-cream was ... ...nice as cream, papa.” We used to call one of her little fingers “pistachio ice,” the next, “cream ice,” the third “raspberry ,” and so on. Usually whe... ...me I used to sit her on my knee, kiss her little fingers, and say: “Creamy ice… pistachio… lemon.…” And now, from old habit, I kiss Liza’s fingers and...

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...as completely black from the wrist to the shoulder, and his feet were like ice. We expected every mo- ment to see him breathe his last. He was frightf... ...south latitude, and in longitude 26 degrees 57' E. Here he met with narrow fields of ice, about eight or ten inches thick, and running northwest and s... ...tude, and in longitude 26 degrees 57' E. Here he met with narrow fields of ice, about eight or ten inches thick, and running northwest and southeast. ... ...about eight or ten inches thick, and running northwest and southeast. This ice was in large cakes, and usually it was packed so closely that the vesse... ... degrees 15' they found all farther progress impeded by an immense body of ice, extending all along the southern 117 V olume Three horizon as far as ... ...he southern 117 V olume Three horizon as far as the eye could reach. This ice was of every variety—and some large floes of it, miles in extent, forme... ...iscov- ered, and that, upon arriving at the latitude of 74 degrees 15', no fields, and only three islands of ice were visible. It is some- what remark... ...c circle. V ery little ice was to be seen to the southward, although large fields of it lay behind us. This day we rigged some sounding gear, using a ...

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...art for a young man! Why, my fust fight was for five shillings in Tott’nam Fields; and proud I was when I won it. I don’t want to set you on to fight ... ...where she inspired much hope- less passion in the toilers in Lincoln’s Inn Fields and Chan- cery Lane, and agreeably surprised her solicitors by evinc... ...ive for a heart of flesh to warm me through Instead of this heart of stone ice-cold whatever I do; Hard and cold and small, of all hearts the worst of...

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... And think not that the felicity of the heroes and demigods in the Elysian fields consisteth either in their asphodel, ambrosia, or nectar, as our old... ...iately in all disorder, without keeping either rank or file, they took the fields one amongst another, wasting, spoiling, destroying, and making havoc... ... hear of my Lord Meurles his greyhound, which was not worth a straw in the fields? He put a frock about his neck: by the body of G—, there was neither... ...d, Let us play, they all played. If one said, Let us go a-walking into the fields they went all. If it were to go a-hawking or a-hunting, the ladies m... ...d being sensible where his shoe did pinch him, he was willing to break the ice, and make the greater haste to prepare the way for a condescendment to ... ...ut I’ll not tarry long. Then, ah! then, continued Homenas, no hail, frost, ice, snow, overflowing, or vis major; then plenty of all earthly goods here... ...d fain have saved some merry odd words, and have preserved them in oil, as ice and snow are kept, and between clean straw. But Pantagruel would not le... ...led the van; claret and champagne followed, cool, nay, as cold as the very ice, I say, filled and offered in large silver cups. Then they offered: Chi... ...ng can be misliked in it, but that ’tis cold; colder, I say, than the very ice; colder than the Nonacrian and Dercean (Motteux reads ‘Deraen.’) water,...

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...y paring with their scythes in the twilight round the hummocks left by the ice; but now it is not worth the getting when they can come at it, and they... ...r got time to say so; they never took to the way of writing. Look at their fields, and imagine what they might write, if ever they should put pen to p... ...d, and flowering at this season and in these localities, in front of dense fields of the white species which skirted the sides of the stream, its litt... ...adows, like flowers which Proserpine had dropped, and still farther in the fields or higher on the bank were seen the purple Gerardia, the Virginian r... ...r. I have passed down the river before sunrise on a summer morning between fields of lilies still shut in sleep; and when, at length, the flakes of su... ...er you can sink a line down straight in a pasture through snow and through ice, and pull up a bright, slip pery, dumb, subterranean silver or golden ... ...amily, from the largest to the smallest. The least minnow that lies on the ice as bait for pickerel, looks like a huge sea fish cast up on the shore. ... ...ion of more northern tribes, “Some nation yet shut in With hills of ice.” There are other, savager, and more primeval aspects of na ture than ... ...opper bears a worm; Around the cape, across the line, Till fields of ice her course confine; It matters not how smooth the breeze, How sha...

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...armer took her in, and while she was quite small, let her keep cows in the fields. She was clad in miser- able rags, beaten for the slightest offence ... ... Virginia would feed the rab- bits and run to pick the wild flowers in the fields, and her flying legs would disclose her little embroidered pantalett... ...ugh undulating grounds, and thence to a plateau, where pastures and tilled fields alternated. At the edge of the road, A Simple Soul — Gustave Flaube... ...ess apple-trees lined the edges of the road. The ditches were covered with ice. The dogs on the neighbouring farms barked; and Felicite, with her hand...

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..., The huntsman bounds on by the dizzying ridge. Undaunted he hies him O’er ice-covered wild, Where leaf never budded, 7 Schiller Nor Spring ever smil... ...eachery? MELCH. Through the Surenen’s fearful mountain chain, Where dreary ice-fields stretch on every side, And sound is none, save the hoarse vultur... ...ery? MELCH. Through the Surenen’s fearful mountain chain, Where dreary ice-fields stretch on every side, And sound is none, save the hoarse vulture’s ... ... crept,— No valley so remote but I explored it; Nay, at the very glacier’s ice-clad base, I sought and found the homes of living men; And still, where... ...black mountain, far as Weissland, where, Conceal’d behind eternal walls of ice, Another people speak another tongue. They built the village Stanz, bes... ...r the precipice. I see the avalanche close o’er your head, The treacherous ice give way, and you sink down Intombed alive within its hideous gulf. Ah!... ...re be scann’d Without impediment. The corn grows there In broad and lovely fields, and all the land Is like a garden fair to look upon. WALT. But, fat... ...e they not free, As you do, on the land their fathers left them? TELL. The fields are all the bishop’s or the king’s. WALT. But they may freely hunt a...

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...id. It expressed the vast dusty dullness, the men waiting in rows on drill fields, standing at attention, the monotony of feet tramping in unison, of ... ... dust rising from the battalions going back and forth over the dusty drill fields. He felt the rhythm filling his whole body, from his sore hands to h... ...ers in khaki marching into towns, pursuing terrified Huns across po- tato fields, saving Belgian milk-maids against picturesque backgrounds. “Does m... ... he couldn’t stay in the medics. The train had started again. Misty russet fields slipped by and dark clumps of trees that gyrated slowly waving branc... ...ed into the water that was barely visible gurgling beneath between rims of ice. “O this is a hell of a life,” he muttered. He shivered in the cold win... ...satis- faction. His feet slopped in the puddles, breaking through the thin ice, as he walked up the road towards the barracks. He felt as if people we... ...n smell a combination of dead horses and tube roses and banana oil and the ice cream we used to have at college and dead rats in the garret, but what ... ...Andrews in a low voice. “Hell, how should I know? I bet you never drove an ice wagon … . I did, all one summer down home … . It was some life. Get up ... ... three o’clock in the morning an’ carry a hundred or two hundred pounds of ice into everybody’s ice box. That was the life to make a feller feel fit. ...

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...le, because she would not believe it possible for the stomach to bear real ice, however it might be sweetened. Besides these dainties, which we gradua... ...hin the walls and streets still more than could have been done in the open fields, were very well entertained for a while by the barricade set up by t... ...y Gretchen’s side, fancied that I really wan- dered in those happy Elysian fields where they pluck from the trees crystal cups that immediately fill t... ..., by transporting us out of the region of scanty perceptions into the open fields of thought. The ut pictura poesis, so long misunderstood, was at onc...

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...o years. Bogucharovo lay in a flat uninteresting part of the country among fields and forests of fir and birch, which were partly cut down. The house ... ...en with remarks which showed that he was in a good temper. Pointing to the fields, he spoke of the improvements he was making in his husbandry. Pierre... ...he end of everything. On earth, here on this earth” (Pierre pointed to the fields), “there is no truth, all is false and evil; but in the universe, in... ...and deserted German village. A thaw had set in, it was muddy and cold, the ice on the river broke, and the roads became impassable. For days nei- ther... ...led “Mashka’s sweet root.” It was very bitter, but they wandered about the fields seeking it and dug it out with their sabers and ate it, though they ... ... shouting. “And I saw with my own eyes how Lazarchuk bwought some fwom the fields.” “I have given the order again and again, your honor, but they don’... ...them twy me, but I’ll always thwash scoundwels… and I’ll tell the Empewo’… Ice…” he muttered. The regimental doctor, when he came, said it was absolut...

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...er shore across, Into eternal darkness, there to dwell In fierce heat and in ice. And thou, who there Standest, live spirit! get thee hence, and leave... ...ss intricate the brakes, wherein abide Those animals, that hate the cultur’d fields, Betwixt Corneto and Cecina’s stream. Here the brute Harpies ... ... steps. As underneath the scourge Of the fierce dog star, that lays bare the fields, Shifting from brake to brake, the lizard seems A flash of lightni... ...oil, So, to where modest shame appears, thus low Blue pinch’d and shrin’d in ice the spirits stood, Moving their teeth in shrill note like the stork. ... ... We now had left him, passing on our way, When I beheld two spirits by the ice Pent in one hollow, that the head of one Was cowl unto the other; and... ...ncapable of guilt. Onward we pass’d, Where others skarf’d in rugged folds of ice Not on their feet were turn’d, but each revers’d There very weep... ...ouldst have mine aid; And if I extricate thee not, far down As to the lowest ice may I descend!” “The friar Alberigo,” answered he, “Am I, who fr...

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...k per- son in the neighbourhood, caught sight of Charles playing about the fields, he called him, lectured him for a quarter of an hour and took advan... ...t, then of the weather, of the great cold, of the wolves that infested the fields at night. Mademoiselle Rouault did not at all like the country, espe... ...lder; “I’ve been through it. When I lost my dear departed, I went into the fields to be quite alone. I fell at the foot of a tree; I cried; I called o... ...king-glass. One day he got there about three o’clock. Everybody was in the fields. He went into the kitchen, but did not at once catch sight of Emma; ... ...s only shadow overspreading all the rest. She was just eating a maraschino ice that she held with her left hand in a silver-gilt cup, her eyes half-cl... ... an open dress- ing gown that showed between the shawl facings of her bod- ice a pleated chamisette with three gold buttons. Her belt was a corded gir... ...ne, and with the other holding Athalie, who was quietly sucking a piece of ice. She thought him charming; she could not tear herself away from him; sh... ...ulders that stretched out over her breast the stitches of her knitted bod- ice, she pointed with both hands at her rival’s inn, whence songs were hear... ...pisms and cold-water com- presses. He sent Justin as far as Neufchatel for ice; the ice melted on the way; he sent him back again. He called Mon- sieu...

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...est no sooner raised than silenced in a prison cell or among Siberian snow fields, yet rising again and again with inextinguishable reiteration; appea... ...buy a good strong horse, which he would want in the spring for work in the fields and for driving on the roads, as his old horse was al most played o... ...them to drive the cattle into his yard. The peas ants were working in the fields, and, disregarding the screaming of the women, Peter Nikolaevich’s m... ...to the mortuary, stripped the sheet off the dead body which was as cold as ice (in taking off the sheet Vassily touched his hand), took the bags, tied... ...rom her window how her husband had been murdered and dragged away into the fields. The horror of such a sight to Natalia Ivanovna was so intense – 95... ...d. I don’t mean only the military service: I did not enter the Civil Serv ice either. And so I have been of no use whatever, as you can see.” “Yes, w... ... he strolled Volgin took his favourite path past the summer house into the fields beyond. It was pleasant in the park, but it was still nicer in the f...