Word: shade
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...Shade of mystery, hear...
...sanctum. Through the flowery shade...
...even as Yung had said. While these events had been taking place, evening's mantle had shadowed the earth; and even now the blackness of midnight was under the shade of the trees, though it was yet dusk in the open glen. Tue saw the truth of Yung's words; but in her case (as in that of many, I fear) the discovery of truth did not bring with it an exquisite joy. She sank upon the ground and wept...
...read Jack's letter, in which he said he would come down the next day and stay a week with me; and I forthwith bounced out on the piazza and announced the news to my two sisters, three cousins, and the other young ladies who were reclining in the shade of the maples, alternately yawning and gaping to amuse themselves...
JUST north of the narrow path connecting Weld and Matthews there stands a low and scraggy beech. It has neither shapeliness of form nor comeliness of appearance. Neither can it boast utility, for the toil-worn student cannot cast himself beneath its grateful shade; inasmuch as its shade is not grateful, but rather to such a degree baneful, that, oppressed by the perennial gloom the grass grows but sparsely beneath its branches, and the damp, bare ground seems doomed to a lasting blight. Standing with its humble stature among the high-topped, overarching elms that surround it, this poor beech...