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... to her uncle, murmuring aside to her: “You heard what he said.” Rhoda was frozen with her heart’s expectation, and insensible to hints or reproof. Th... ...c on the back. But the public likes to have its back slapped, and critics, frozen by the Medusa-head of Suc- cess, were soon taught manners. The offic... ...self strength to attract an intelligent response from that strange, grave, bovine fixity of look, over which the human misery sat as a thing not yet t... ...r will come to an understanding with hot blood, and the old lady’s is like frozen milk. She’s right in her way, I dare say. I don’t blame her. Her pie... ... you, and it will lighten the old man’s heart.” Once more the inexplicable frozen look struck over him from her opened eyes, as if one of the minutes ... ...ehemence of distaste to the union on Dahlia’s part. But Dahlia’s blood was frozen, her brain was under lead. She clung to the poor delight in her sist...

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...- ligent actresses he had known had struck him, in conversation, as either bovine or primitively “jolly”. He had a notion that, save in the mind of ge... ... she instantly thought that that was calculated too. She sat beside him in frozen misery, wondering whether, henceforth, she would measure in this way...

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...myself before Will comes. I hope he never knows what a fool his wife is… . Frozen, sneering, horrible hearts.” Like a very small, very lonely girl she... ...loves and minute handkerchiefs and sealskin card-cases and countenances of frozen approbation, sat on the edges of chairs and inquired, “Do you find G... ... yards choked with winter ash-piles, these roads of dirty snow and clotted frozen mud. The zest of winter was gone. Three months more, till May, the c... ...ld be better. But I must run home. 122 Main Street My poor nose is nearly frozen.” “Say, you better come in and get warm, and see what an old bach’s ... ...boots, sweater, muffler, cap, mittens. The snow was too thick and the ruts frozen too hard for the motor. They drove out in a clumsy high carriage. Tu... ...tried to stare them down but in face of the impishness of the boys and the bovine gaping of the men, she was embarrassed. Fern did not glance at them....

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...be- forehand. Beef of the feminine gender there prevails; the young of the bovine species appears in all kinds of ingenious disguises. When the whitin... ...sed close to his friend’s side as a soldier might keep by a comrade on the frozen Russian plains. During those early days of his acquaintance, he noti...

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...yes like pebble, like agate, like an animal’s eyes. He had the same broad, bovine figure, though he was only a boy. But there was some discrepancy in ... ...arkness, to the little village with the broken castle that stands for ever frozen at the point where the track parts, one way continuing along the rid...

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...igilant. Presently I heard something else, very faint and low. I sat as if frozen in my attitude. Though it was faint and low, it moved me more profou... ...th that. One perhaps was ursine chiefly, an- other feline chiefly, another bovine chiefly; but each was tainted with other creatures,—a kind of genera...

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... ass?’ said the Doctor. ‘There or thereabouts,’ said Bobby ruefully. ‘He’s frozen on to me.’ Dormer’s mouth shut with a click. He turned his head and ... ...sufficing, and less sordid and low-thoughted than you might imagine. It is bovine and slow in some respects, but it is never empty. You and I are incl...

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... of North and South, The Baltic with its amber spume, The Caspian with its frozen mouth; The broad Pacific, basking bright, And girdling lands of lust... ...very postured form Spread lava-like and brooded warm, – And fixed on every frozen face Beheld the record of its race, And in each chiselled feature kn... ... he stood in all his glory! But so radiant, being near, That her eyes were frozen on him In a fascinated fear! All with orient splendour shining, All ... ... as a torpid brooklet, That to the night-gleaming moon Flashed in turn the frozen glances, Melts upon the breast of noon. But no more—O never, never, ... ... gloom-coloured clouds that stain the skies With pictures of a warmth, and frozen glow Spread over endless fields of sheeted snow; And white untrodden... ...uel, decay, Brightens the fire of renewal: and we? Death is the word of a bovine day, Know you the breast of the springing T o-be. 304 HARD WEATHER ...

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... devoured it, until he had worn a path in the grass there; and when it was frozen and thawed, the crow and the jay were glad to taste it occasionally.... ...iar fruit in triumph. Such are the tactics by which it finally defeats its bovine foes. Now, if you have watched the progress of a particular shrub, y... ...the way to that; the Beauty of the Air (Decks Aeris); December-Eating; the Frozen-Thawed (gelato-soluta), good only in that state; the Concord Apple, ... ... his book, An- cient Monasteries of the East. 25 Henry David Thoreau THE “FROZEN-THAWED” APPLE T OWARD THE END OF NOVEMBER, though some of the sound ... ...abbed, and quite unpalatable to the civilized taste, such at least as were frozen while sound, let a warmer sun come to thaw them, for they are extrem...

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...ll bank another proposition against that,” replied Malemute Kid, reversing the frozen bread placed before the fire to thaw. “We ’ll eat Shookum before ... ... Kid attacked the tree with his axe. The steel rang merrily as it bit into the frozen trunk, each stroke being accom panied by a forced, audible resp... ...e Fur Company in the old days, incidentally marking the trail with a couple of frozen toes. “Sufferin’ cracky!” cried another of the party. “No whites... ... his companion, lighted first the slush lamp and then the fire. The kettles were frozen hard, and there was no water in the cabin with which to wash. Bu... ...d. He shrank away from the clammy contact as they drew closer and twined their frozen limbs about him, and when they whispered in his ear of things to... ...went into the rush grass on hands and knees, crunching and munching, like some bovine creature. Love of Life 185 He was very weary and often wished t...

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...en the flurry was at its worst. We were dragged hither and yon by warm or, frozen suctions, belched up on the tops of wulii-was, spun down by vortices... ...igs alike have suffered severely—the former from ‘unequal deposits of half-frozen slush on their vans (and only those who have “held up” a badly balan... ...foot levels. But there remain a few undaunted sun-hunters who, in spite of frozen stays and ice-jammed connecting-rods, still haunt the blue empyrean.... ...English—ah, the English!—they are quite a race apart. Their psychology is bovine, their outlook crude and rare; They abandon vital matters to be tic...