... wavy lines and natural terraces beyond Cold Spring, and the mass of rocks and pines of Constitution Island, were wrapped in sad-colored uniform, Eliot shrunk from the influence of the general desolateness, and became impatient of his voluntary watch.... The Linwoods: Or, "Sixty Years Since" in America - Page 143by Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1835 - 944 pagesFull view - About this book
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1836 - 612 pages
...desolateness, and became impatient of his voluntary watch. " One after another the kindly-beaming home lights shot forth from hill and valley, and Eliot's eye catching...ruggedest path of life. That expression of repelling and immovable gravity, that look of tension (with him the bow was always strained) that characterized Washington's... | |
| Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1836 - 588 pages
...lights shot forth from hill and valley, and Eliot's eye catching that which flashed from Mr. KuthvenV window, he determined on a reconnoitre; and passing...ruggedest path of life. That expression of repelling and immovable gra\ity, that look of tension (with him the bow was always strained) that characterized Washington's... | |
| 1844 - 668 pages
...and Wiley, and Eliot's eye catching that which rt.i-.lmd from Mr. Ruthven'a window, htrdetertnined on a reconnoitre; and passing In front of the house, he saw Washington and las host seated at a .table, served wUh* wine anJmu • , THE LIN WOODS, bat none of thnso tropical... | |
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