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...summer sunlight shimmers through the leaves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 6/17/1881 | See Source »

...warmer than I thought, although my companion did not seem distressed by this circumstance. The sunlight surged in wavy lines across the dusty road before me. Every object I saw took on an unnatural glare. My head was hot and heavy, my veins all afire; but I kept on. Even with him beside me, I kept on. He talked cheerily, and I answered in monosyllables at first, then at random, wildly; I saw him looking at me with an expression of curious concern; and I saw a spot of red, like blood, in his left cheek. That is the reason...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A. BIRD OF THE AIR. | 6/3/1881 | See Source »

...tried to think. I might as well have tried to fly. My brain was spinning about like a wheel, and I could distinguish nothing clearly. There was the dream, the vision, the actuality, whatever it was, of the night before; here was the fact of to-day, the bright sunlight, the undisturbed room, and - myself. Where was Stephen? That was the question that kept repeating itself over and over, the question for which I could find no answer. Only in my own consciousness remained any trace of the night before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BIRD OF THE AIR. | 5/6/1881 | See Source »

...will suffice to describe Tootsy. Her hair fell in liquid, melting ringlets over her high and classic forehead; her eyes were wavy and dreamy in their expression; she had a fascinating little "nez retrousse," and teeth of pearly whiteness; her lips were ruddy, and appeared tempting in the soft sunlight; her hands were of a delicately shaded nut-brown tint; and, as for her figure, it was divine. Withal she was of a poetic bent, and had often written verses for the Watchman. Eighteen summers and as many winters had passed over her head. But enough of this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOOTSY SWIDGER'S VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE. | 3/25/1881 | See Source »

...setting sunlight on the snow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR FAIREST FOE. | 2/11/1881 | See Source »

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