With half-closed eyes I watch the huge cloud shadows in their noiseless play upon the high bluffs opposite me, while into my ear ripple the sweet, soft cadences of the river's song.

She did not laugh often, but sometimes there was a ripple in her fresh voice that would turn a man's head.

Indeed I do!' Her momentary sadness had already disappeared, and there was almost a ripple in her tone again as she answered.

On the contrary, she smiled quite frankly, and the sweet ripple was in her voice, the ripple that drove some men almost crazy.

On the contrary, she smiled quite frankly, and the sweet ripple was in her voice, the ripple that drove some men almost crazy.

'You're too exotic,' retorted Lady Maud, with a ripple in her voice.

This is a bad world as it is, but it would be intolerable if one had to keep up one's school-room manners all one's life, and sit up straight and spell properly, as if Society, with a big S, were a governess that could send us to bed without our supper if we didn't!' Margaret laughed a little, but there was no ripple in Lady Maud's delicious voice as she made these singular statements.

At about nine it began to blow, and gradually rose to a gale, causing our river ripple to mimic ocean waves, and the dust and sand to fly before us in clouds, obscuring earth and sky.

" He slipped from his horse with an effortless ripple, untied a tawny little pony with a thick neck, a round body, and a mild, intelligent face, and led him to Sheila who mounted from her sack.

But, in spite of her slowing down, the musical ripple at her bow increased, and Riggs said it was due to the set of the current against us, which came through the channel very strong, as the island cut out a deep current and brought it to the surface of the sea in the narrow passage between the island and the mainland.

The thousand waves of wheat That ripple round the lonely grange.

The angels' music is like the song of the skylark, the sails ripple like a leaf-hidden brookrecollections of his happy boyhood in.

I. I stood on the brink in childhood, And watched the bubbles go From the rock-fretted sunny ripple To the smoother lymph below; And over the white creek-bottom, Under them every one, Went golden stars in the water, All luminous with the sun.

Far away from the haunts of men, in the depths of the Chedworth woods, where no sound save the ripple of the Coln and the song of birds is heard, rude buildings and a museum have been erected; here these ancient relics are sheltered from wind and storm for the sake of those who lived and laboured in the remote past, and for the benefit and instruction of him, be he casual passer-by or pilgrim from afar, who cares to inspect them.

Her hair was beautiful, a bright chestnut brown with a good deal of red, its brilliant gloss broken into innumerable high-lights by the ripple of its waviness; and she had one other positive beauty, the clearly penciled line of her long, dark eyebrows, which ran up a trifle at the outer ends with a little quirk, giving an indescribable air of alertness and vivacity to her expression.

" The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in the room.

She brings, on every passing breeze, Some fragrant odor from the trees; Spreads out rich beauties to the eye, And softly breathes her gentlest sigh; That wakes the ripple on the stream, That dances in the sun's bright beam.

Not a ripple glimmered on the lake, which at one point only reflected the brilliant moon from its dark blue expanse like burnished steel.

Rivulets, whose crystal veins Ripple along flowery plains, Leaping torrents rushing hoarse, Mimicking the ocean's force, Leafage in its summer pride Flowers to Paradise allied.

The British phlegm, on such a journey, did not always serve as a convenient mask; the flattering, timid glance, the ripple of tender whispers, and the furtive touching of fingers beneath the table, made even these English couples a part of the great human marrying family; their superiority to their fellows would return, doubtless, when the honey had dried out of their moon.

Uncle John had to hold one of her hands and I the bottle, but we got there safely in the usual time and not a ripple on the water!

And, anyhow, the ripple gurgled under the prow, the motor ticked tranquilly, and the bubbles danced in the wake.

Do I Southward gaze Like the ocean there, Ripening fields of grain Wave and ripple fair.

A ripple of shots sounded, followed by the shrill cowboy yell.

With a wave of her jewelled right hand she performed the ceremony of introduction between the three callers and Mrs. Frumpthe fat young ladywho also carefully raised herself about two inches from her chair, and lowered herself again, without disarranging a ripple.