... to all these features and influences, John winding up the brae, keeping his captain's eye upon all sides, and breaking, ever and again, into a spasm of bellowing that seemed to make the evening bleaker. Littell's Living Age - Page 4411887Full view - About this book
| 1887 - 722 pages
...moving here and there like night already come, huddles of yellow sheep and dartings of black clogs upon the snow, a bitter air that took you by the throat,...keeping his captain's eye upon all sides and breaking, 602 PASTORAL. ever and again, into a spasm of bellowing that seemed to ELthe evening bleaker. It is... | |
| 1898 - 550 pages
.... . huddles of yellow sheep and dartings of black dogs upon the snow; .... for a centerpiece, .... John winding up the brae, keeping his captain's eye upon all sides." But Stevenson does more than stamp in your memory a vivid picture. Here is motion and sound, also,... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - Scottish literature - 1906 - 490 pages
...air that took you by the throat, unearthly harpings of the wind along the moors ; and for centrepiece to all these features and influences, John winding...make the evening bleaker. It is thus that I still sec him in my mind's eye, perched on the hump of the declivity not far from Halkerside, his staff in... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1908 - 322 pages
...of snow shower moving here and there like night already come, huddles of yellow sheep and dartings of black dogs upon the snow, a bitter air that took you by the throat, un earthly harpings of the wind along the moors ; and for centre piece to all these features and influences,... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1911 - 324 pages
...recalling to mind ; the shadow of the night darkening on the hills, inscrutable black blots of snow-shower moving here and there like night already come, huddles...unearthly harpings of the wind along the moors ; and for centre-piece to all these features and influences, John winding up the brae, keeping his captain's... | |
| Lauchlan MacLean Watt, Robert Louis Stevenson - Covenanters - 1913 - 308 pages
...ABOVE SWANSTON COTTAGE ... 64 "The sea-beholding city in the plain." WINTER ON THE PENTLANDS .... 96 "A bitter air that took you by the throat, unearthly harpings of the wind along the moors." THATCHED COTTAGE — SWANSTON VILLAGE . 128 " I think I owe my taste for that hill business rather... | |
| Clayton Meeker Hamilton - Authors, Scottish - 1915 - 240 pages
...this slumberous locality whose voice "shook the hills when he was angry " and who was wont to go " winding up the brae, keeping his captain's eye upon...bellowing that seemed to make the evening bleaker." The traveller who wishes to push farther into the Pentlands may identify several other places that... | |
| John Frederick Unstead - Great Britain - 1922 - 234 pages
...blots of snowshower moving here and there like night already come, huddles of yellow sheep and dartings of black dogs upon the snow, a bitter air that took...throat, unearthly harpings of the wind along the moors." There are few ways of earning a living on the uplands but by sheep-rearing, for mineral wealth is almost... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - Scottish literature - 1906 - 492 pages
...of snow shower moving here and there like night already come, huddles of yellow sheep and dartings of black dogs upon the snow, a bitter air that took...unearthly harpings of the wind along the moors ; and for centrepiece to all these features and influences, John winding up the brae, keeping his captain's eye... | |
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