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Wharton Edith - The Reckoning
[ AMERICAN]
... the background to let her out. She heard Arment fall back. The footman threw open the door, and she found herself outside in the darkness. ...
Anonymous - Why The Bat Flies At Night
[ FICTION]
... back. No one accepts the bat now. He still hides from everyone during the day, and only flies about when he can hide in darkness. ...
Carlyle Thomas - The French Revolution
[ FICTION]
... outdone by him. It was such a law, not so superfluous then, that sent Mirabeau to the Gardens of Saint-Cloud, under cloak of darkness, to that colloquy of the gods; and thwarted many things. Happily and unhappily there is no Mirabeau now to thwart. Welcomer meanwhile, welcome surely to ...
Sedgwick Maria Catharine - Hope Leslie; Or Early Times In The Massachusetts - (vol I)
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
... heavens; masses of black clouds were driven by a spring gale over her bright disk, producing startling changes, from light to darkness, and from darkness to that gleamy, indefinite, illusive brightness, which gives to moonlight its dominion over the imagination. At another time, Hope Leslie would have shrunk from going ...
Gaskell Elizabeth - Sylvia's Lovers
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
... the swish of heavy whips, the thud of bludgeons, the groans, the growls of wounded or infuriated men, coming with terrible distinctness through the darkness to the quickened ear of fear. A breathless group rushed up the blackness of a narrow entry to stand still awhile, and recover strength for ...
Wells Herbert G. - The War Of The Worlds
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
... took my place. The night was warm and I was thirsty, and I went stretching my legs clumsily and feeling my way in the darkness, to the little table where the siphon stood, while Ogilvy exclaimed at the streamer of gas that came out towards us. That night another invisible ...
Conrad Joseph - End Of The Tether
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
... that apparently could not be overcome by the horror of blindness. But after all, for Ivy he had carried his point, walking in his darkness to the very verge of a crime. God had not listened to his prayers. The light had finished ebbing out of the world; not a ...
Stevenson Robert Louis - Essays Of Travel
[ ENGLISH ESSAYS]
... hounds, and lit up, in fantastic shadow and shine, by a wood fire in a mediaeval chimney. And then we plod back through the darkness to the inn beside the river. How quick bright things come to confusion! When we arise next morning, the grey showers fall steadily, the trees ...
Kipling Rudyard - The Jungle Book
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
... Billy. They both reared up facing each other, and I was expecting a furious fight, when a gurgly, rumbly voice, called out of the darkness to the right-"Children, what are you fighting about there? Be quiet." Both beasts dropped down with a snort of disgust, for neither horse nor ...
Burroughs Edgar Rice - The Mucker
[ FICTION]
... his right. At a window behind him Barbara Harding stood breathless and spellbound until he had disappeared into the gloom of the early morning darkness to the north, then she turned with a weary sigh and resumed her place beside the wounded Bridge whose head she bathed with cool water, ...
Collins Wilkie - The Moonstone
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
... concern the living people of this narrative, and to events which were already paving my way for the slow and toilsome journey from the darkness to the light. CHAPTER VI I walked to the railway station accompanied, it is needless to say, by Gabriel Betteredge. I had the letter in ...

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