| | 81 | Author: | Spofford, Harriet Prescott | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Mad Lady  | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | CERTAINLY there was a house there, half-way up Great Hill, a
mansion of pale cream-colored stone, built with pillared porch and
wings, vines growing over some parts of it, a sward like velvet
surrounding it; the sun was flashing back from the windows—but—
Why? Why had none of the Godsdale people seen that house before?
Could the work of building have gone on sheltered by the thick wood
in front, the laborers and the materials coming up the other side
of the hill? It would not be visible now if, overnight, vistas had
not been cut in the wood. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 84 | Author: | Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Conquest of Canaan | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A DRY snow had fallen steadily
throughout the still night, so that
when a cold, upper wind cleared the
sky gloriously in the morning the
incongruous Indiana town shone in a
white harmony—roof, ledge, and earth as evenly
covered as by moonlight. There was no thaw;
only where the line of factories followed the big
bend of the frozen river, their distant chimneys like
exclamation points on a blank page, was there a
first threat against the supreme whiteness. The
wind passed quickly and on high; the shouting of
the school-children had ceased at nine o'clock with
pitiful suddenness; no sleigh-bells laughed out on
the air; and the muffling of the thoroughfares
wrought an unaccustomed peace like that of Sunday.
This was the phenomenon which afforded the
opening of the morning debate of the sages in the
wide windows of the "National House.'' | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 92 | Author: | Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Kerfol. | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | "YOU ought to buy it," said my host; "it's just the place for a
solitary-minded devil like you. And it would be rather worth while
to own the most romantic house in Brittany. The present people are
dead broke, and it's going for a song—you ought to buy it." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 96 | Author: | Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Quicksand | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | AS Mrs. Quentin's victoria, driving homeward, turned from the
Park
into Fifth Avenue, she divined her son's tall figure walking
ahead
of her in the twilight. His long stride covered the ground more
rapidly than usual, and she had a premonition that, if he were
going home at that hour, it was because he wanted to see
her. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 100 | Author: | Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Venetian Night's Entertainment | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THIS is the story that, in the dining-room of the old Beacon Street
house (now the Aldebaran Club), Judge Anthony Bracknell, of the
famous East India firm of Bracknell & Saulsbee, when the ladies had
withdrawn to the oval parlour (and Maria's harp was throwing its
gauzy web of sound across the Common), used to relate to his
grandsons, about the year that Buonaparte marched upon Moscow. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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