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those silent rooted things! It was like walking through a wood by moonlight.
Simile
laughing for sheer joy of adventure,
Haha
Why didn’t they bring lights? Question
a shrill female voice
Password!
a light more brilliant than that of any lamp, and yet as soft as moonlight, seemed to issue from the marvelous tapestries that hung on the walls.
Simile extended and beautiful
Simile overblown
Simile
fairy fruit,
Mother Tibbs.
Master Hyacinth and Master Josiah!”
Clearly she took them for their own fathers.
Simile haha
Haha
“Why, the gentlemen bring it! All the pretty gentlemen, dressed in green,
Haha simile
dancing all night under the moon!
“No! No! As long as my heart dances my feet will too. And nobody will grow old when the Duke comes back.”
Haha
why, we will cut the fiddle strings that you dance to!”
pp. 65, 70
“Cut the fiddle strings! Cut the fiddle strings!” she wailed; adding coaxingly, “No, no, pretty master, you would never do that! Would he now?” and she turned appealingly to Master Nathaniel. “It would be like taking away the poor man’s strawberries. The Senator has peaches and roasted swans and peacock’s hearts, and a fine coach to drive in, and a feather bed to lie late in of a morning. And the poor man has black bread and baked haws, and work … but in the summer he has strawberries and tunes to dance to. No, no, you would never cut the fiddle strings!”
Mother Tibbs, the half-crazy old washerwoman, who, in spite of her forty summers danced more lightly than any maiden, p. 46
suddenly he remembered how the other day he had found its door ajar.
Simile
the sycamore,
Endymion Leer.
Sebastian,”
fairy fruit.
Haha - no death penalty in Dorimare.
“Do the dead bleed?”
there was something vaguely reminiscent in that idea of the dead bleeding
But perhaps first — just to be in order — your Worship would knock and command them to open.”
Haha - knock and announce.
Haha
the language of their forefathers, forged in more strenuous and poetic days than the present.
Haha
the accolade of a very heavy affliction.
look facts in the face
We stand to lose everything that makes life pleasant and secure
And if we cannot bequeath the certainty of these things to our children, what will boot them their inheritance?
take the word of old and trusty friends as the only touchstone of truth.
Duke Aubrey
Haha - why keep that portrait? Question
Polydore Vigil
dead in the eye of the Law,
Haha simile
the mysterious impetus propelling him along the straight white road
the Law does not shrink from reducing thoroughness to absurdity,
Haha
