Swiftly the light gathered itself together, painted for an instant the faces and the cartwheels and bullocks' horns as red as blood. Then the night fell, changing the touch of the air, drawing a low, even haze like a gossamer veil of blue across the face... Six Weeks' Trip Through India: Being Notes by the Wayby John Ferguson - 1902 - 155 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Thurston Hopkins - 1915 - 394 pages
...remarkably vivid and concrete. What, for instance, could be more striking than this passage from " Kim " : " Then the night fell, changing the touch of the air,...and bringing out, keen and distinct, the smell of the wood-smoke and cattle, and the good scent of wheaten cakes cooked on ashes." The reader will note... | |
| George Moore - 1923 - 510 pages
...shufflings and scufflings in the branches showed that the bats were ready to go out on the night picket. Swiftly the light gathered itself together, painted for an instant the faces and the cartwheels and bullocks' horns as red as blood. Then the night fell, changing the touch of the air, drawing a low,... | |
| George Moore - 1926 - 328 pages
...Swiftly the light gathered itself together, painted for an instant the faces and the cartwheels and bullocks' horns as red as blood. Then the night fell,...air, drawing a low, even haze like a gossamer veil of bine across the face of the country, and bringing out, keen and distinct, the smell of wood-smoke and... | |
| 1916 - 466 pages
...exploration of the strange, alluring symphonies of smell that abound near us. MR. HOPKINS quotes from "Kim" : "Then the night fell, changing the touch of the air,...and bringing out, keen and distinct, the smell of the wood-smoke and cattle, and the good scent of wheaten cakes cooked on ashes." Or again, this from... | |
| Zohreh T. Sullivan - 1993 - 216 pages
...adventure, walked back and forth in twos and threes almost under the feet of the travellers. . . . Swiftly the light gathered itself together, painted...bullocks' horns as red as blood. Then the night fell. (K 63-4) By neutralizing the distance between the narrator and Kim, between first and third person... | |
| Roger Lancelyn Green - 1997 - 440 pages
...shufflings and scufflings in the branches showed that the bats were ready to go out on the night picket. Swiftly the light gathered itself together, painted for an instant the faces and the cartwheels and bullocks' horns as red as blood. Then the night fell, changing the touch of the air, drawing a low,... | |
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