A Mating in the WildsWard, Lock & Company, 1920 - 318 pages |
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... dark and had the wildness of the wilderness - born , whilst the hair , black and lumi- nous as the raven's wing , crisped in curls instead of hanging in the straight plaits of the ordinary native woman . She moved forward slowly with ...
... dark and had the wildness of the wilderness - born , whilst the hair , black and lumi- nous as the raven's wing , crisped in curls instead of hanging in the straight plaits of the ordinary native woman . She moved forward slowly with ...
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... dark eyes kindled with sudden flame , and the rich blood surged in the bronze face from chin to brow . Almost un- consciously the man took a step forward . But at that the girl , turning suddenly , fled between the wil- lows like the ...
... dark eyes kindled with sudden flame , and the rich blood surged in the bronze face from chin to brow . Almost un- consciously the man took a step forward . But at that the girl , turning suddenly , fled between the wil- lows like the ...
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... dark . In the northern heavens a rosy glow proclaimed the midnight sun . Somewhere in the willows a robin was chirping , and from the wide bosom of the river , like the thin howl of a wolf , came the mocking cry of a loon still pursuing ...
... dark . In the northern heavens a rosy glow proclaimed the midnight sun . Somewhere in the willows a robin was chirping , and from the wide bosom of the river , like the thin howl of a wolf , came the mocking cry of a loon still pursuing ...
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... dark eyes at their first meeting burned once more , and where , but for an inter- ruption , the conversation would have drifted can only be conjectured . But at that precise moment the tall Indian called to her . " Miskodeed . " The ...
... dark eyes at their first meeting burned once more , and where , but for an inter- ruption , the conversation would have drifted can only be conjectured . But at that precise moment the tall Indian called to her . " Miskodeed . " The ...
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... dark woods , the barbaric burying , the wild chant , I was able to vision it all— and my sympathies were with the man , who , in spite of Oxford , had chosen to live his own life in his own way . " Ainley laughed . " You see it in the ...
... dark woods , the barbaric burying , the wild chant , I was able to vision it all— and my sympathies were with the man , who , in spite of Oxford , had chosen to live his own life in his own way . " Ainley laughed . " You see it in the ...
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Page 126 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding : Sweet lovers love the spring.
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Page 113 - I became aware of a strange lack. I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. For there is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. And to live out of doors with the woman a man loves is of all lives the most complete and free.
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Page 33 - Dow, was finished also, and when the school year ended he folded his tent like the Arabs and as silently stole away.
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Page 58 - He rose quickly to his feet in order to get a better view of the object which had suddenly floated into his line of vision.