...the wall, with gestures fantastic, Darted his own huge shadow, and ranished away into darkFragments of song the old man sang, and carols of Christmas,...Sang in their Norman orchards and bright Burgundian vineyard*." A venerable old man is thus described — " But like a laboring oar, that toils in the...

...wall, with gestures fantastic, Darted his own huge shadow, and vanished away into darkness. * * • Fragments of song the old man sang, and carols of...Norman orchards and bright Burgundian vineyards." A venerable old man is thus described — " Bent like a laboring oar, that toils in the surf of the...

...clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his arm-chair, Laughed in the flickering light, and the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Fragments of son^ the old man sang, and carols of Christinas, Such as at home, in the olden time, his fathers before...

...treatment. He is quoting the description of the farmer's cozy kitchen." It ends thus : — And the pewter plates on the dresser, Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. " Here," says the author, " is a piece of singularly good description quite ruined, as far as regards...

...elbow-chair, and watched how the flames and the smoke-wreaths Struggled together like foes in a burning city. Nodding and mocking along the wall, with gestures...before him Sang in their Norman orchards and bright Burv gundian vineyards. Close at her father's side was the gentle Evangeline seated, Spinning flax...

...Latighed in the flickering light, and the pewter plates on the dresser Canght and reflected the flame, äs shields of armies the sunshine. Fragments of song the old man sang, and carols of Christmas, Such äs at home, in the olden time, his fathers before him Sang in their Norman orchards and bright Burgundian...

...revealing the checked woollen coverlet of the bed in one far-off corner — and in another, ' the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame as shields of armies the sunshine.' "Tradition has preserved many incidents of life in the garrisons. In times of unusual peril, the settlers...

...revealing the checked woollen coverlet of the bed in one far-off corner, while in another " the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame as shields of armies the sunshine." Tradition has preserved many incidents of life in the garrisons. In times of unusual peril the settlers...

...clumsily carved in oak, on 'the back of his arm-chair, Laughed in the flickering light ; and the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame,...Sang in their Norman orchards and bright Burgundian Spinning flax for the loom, that stood in the corner behind her. Silent awhile were its treadles,at...

...Laughed in the flickering light ; and the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the fiame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Fragments of song the old man sang, and carols of Christmas, Snch as at home, in the olden time, his fathers before him Sang in their Norman orchards and bright...