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" ... waited to embark. As we looked far seaward among the outer islands, the trees seemed to march seaward still, going steadily over the heights and down to the water's edge. It had been growing gray and cloudy, like the first evening of autumn, and a... "
The Country of the Pointed Firs - Page 45
by Sarah Orne Jewett - 1896 - 213 pages
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Four Stories by American Women: Rebecca Harding Davis, Charlotte Perkins ...

Various - Fiction - 1990 - 276 pages
...for a man o' his years he's amazin' now when he's at his best. Oh, he used to be a beautiful man!" We were standing where there was a fine view of the...world beyond this which some believe to be so near. "That's where mother lives," said Mrs. Todd. "Can't we see it plain? I was brought up out there on...
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The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Other Stories

Sarah Orne Jewett - Fiction - 1994 - 340 pages
...for a man o' his years he's amazin' now when he's at his best. Oh, he used to be a beautiful man!" We were standing where there was a fine view of the...of them shone out clear in the light, and revealed THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS itself in a compelling way to our eyes. Mrs. Todd was looking off across...
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New Essays on The Country of the Pointed Firs

June Howard - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 144 pages
...narrator's first sight of Green Island from the shore produces something like an effect of apotheosis: It had been growing gray and cloudy, like the first...and revealed itself in a compelling way to our eyes. . . . The sunburst on that outermost island made it seem like a sudden revelation of the world beyond...
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The Problem of American Realism: Studies in the Cultural History of a ...

Michael Davitt Bell - Education - 1993 - 260 pages
...narrator's first sight of Green Island from the shore produces something like an effect of apotheosis: It had been growing gray and cloudy, like the first...and revealed itself in a compelling way to our eyes. . . . The sunburst on that outermost island made it seem like a sudden revelation of the world beyond...
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Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination

Tom Quirk - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 246 pages
...without playfulness and knew not how to be merry among sad acquaintance and events of sombre hue.8 It had been growing gray and cloudy, like the first...the world beyond this which some believe to be so near.9 What is so obvious in these three passages (and I might have included also Huck's famous description...
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