Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cheerful square of light, however, came from the windows of the village store. A little senate of villagers was assembled within, as usual. The storm might have kept some of them at home had they been other than sturdy Posett people used to the dangers of storm and darkness on the terrible sea. To gather at the store and listen to and discuss the news was their one mental relaxation; and they valued it accordingly. In summer these veterans of many a cruise assembled on the long piazza; in winter the genial warmth of a round stove enticed them...
Toward this square of light, on the evening in question, a child's figure was struggling manfully through the blinding snow. The child was not any too warmly dressed to battle alone against such heavy odds: an old fur cap and a bright red scarf, over a short round-jacket; hands without mittens, that he kept in his pockets as well as he could. The boy made slow progress, being beaten back by sudden gusts of wind and snow; slowly gaining after each rebuff of this sort, he at last reached the store. His hands were by this time...
...ther's suthin' in't, for he left me this here money, an' I mus' send raound the goods," observed Nahum Metcalf, disposed to view the stranger in a favorable light...
...aside]. - What a dainty hand! - Tom, you're a goner! [Aloud.] Not quite. [He encloses her fingers in his.] So; that's better [guiding her fingers in rolling]. Now you must light it for me. Here's a match. [He puts the cigarette between his lips. She strikes the match, and, without waiting for the sulphur to burn off, immediately touches it to the end of the cigarette...
...With light foot beating down the dusty grass...