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...distant view. But the west windows gave a broad outlook across the common, beyond which the historical "Washington elm" and two companions in line with it spread their leaves in summer and their networks in winter. And far away rose the hills that bounded the view, with the glimmer here and there of the white walls or the illuminated casements of some embowered. half-hidden villa. Eastwardly also, the prospect was, in my earlier remembrance, widely open, and I have frequently seen the sunlit sails gliding along as if through the level fields, for no water was visible. So there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Old Holmes House. | 1/29/1885 | See Source »

...aside, catching a glimmer of the truth]. - Oh! I see. Well, I think I'll take my revenge by not enlightening him at present. [Aloud.] I hope...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OH! | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

...wind blew fiercely. The old house creaked and trembled; the branches swept the roof as though the visible garments of the storm were fluttering by. After a while, however, the wind died down; the violence of the storm suddenly abated; and by and by there was a glimmer of moonlight in the eastern sky. Looking at this, I fell asleep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIRA. | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

...pitiful faces glimmer ashore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OFF PROVINCETOWN. | 5/19/1881 | See Source »

...cold tears glimmer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON. | 1/14/1881 | See Source »

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