 The contrast of all this, which had passed during the day, with the quietness of the evening, when the spirits of the old people had a little subsided and began to wear off with the day, and with the fatigue of their little work, sitting quietly at their...  The works of Thomas Moore - Page 53by Thomas Moore - 1832Full view - About this book
 | 1831 - 652 pages
...and with the fatigue of their little work, — sitting quietly at their door, on the same spot they had lived in thirty years together, the contented...creature or habitation to be seen, and me, Tony, and our gnide sitting with them, all on one log. The difference of the scene I had left, — the immense way... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 654 pages
...and with the fatigue of their little work, — sitting quietly at their door, on the same spot they had lived in thirty years together, the contented...increased by their age and the solitary life they had Jed, the wild quietness of the place, not a living creature or habitation to be seen, and me, Tony,... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1854 - 482 pages
...day, and with the fatigue of their little work, sitting quietly at their door, on the same spot they had lived in thirty years together ; the contented...habitation to be seen — and me, Tony, and our guide, sifting with them, all on one log ; the difference of the scene 1 had left — the immense way I had... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 510 pages
...day, and with the fatigue of their little work, sitting quietly at their door, on the same spot they had lived in thirty years together ; the contented...them, all on one log ; the difference of the scene 1 had left — the immense way I had to get from this corner of the world to any thing I loved —... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 478 pages
...sitting quietly at their door, on the same spot they had lived in thirty years together; the eontented thoughtfulness of their countenances, which was increased...them, all on one log; the difference of the scene 1 had left — the immense way I had to get from this corner of the world to any thing I loved —... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1855 - 328 pages
...day, and with the fatigue of their little work, — sitting quietly at the door, on the same spot they had lived in thirty years together, the contented...habitation to be seen, and me, Tony, and our guide Bitting with them, all on one log. The difference of the scene I had left, — the immense way I had... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1880 - 674 pages
...their work, sitting peacefully at the door, on the same spot upon which they had rested for so many years together ; the contented thoughtfulness of their...of the place, not a living creature or habitation, and myself and guide sitting with them upon the same log (not sofa, Mr. Heathcote) ; the difference... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - Authors, English - 1888 - 314 pages
...day, and with the fatigue of their little work, sitting quietly at their door, on the same spot they had lived in thirty years together; the contented...— and me, Tony, and our guide, sitting with them on one log ; the difference of the scene I had left, — the immense way I had to get from this corner... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - Authors, English - 1888 - 314 pages
...not a living creature or habitation to be seen, — and me, Tony, and our guide, sitting with them on one log ; the difference of the scene I had left, — the immense way I had to get from this corner of the world, to see any thing I loved, — the difference of the life I should lead from that... | |
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