Apples by Night: StoriesJonathan Cape, 1932 - 314 pages |
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... breathing a homely sooty smell , disturbing mice engaged among sticks and paper in the hearth , these causing a crackling and rustling that was like the first breath of fire . Funguses were sprouting from chinks in the walls and from ...
... breathing a homely sooty smell , disturbing mice engaged among sticks and paper in the hearth , these causing a crackling and rustling that was like the first breath of fire . Funguses were sprouting from chinks in the walls and from ...
Page 200
... breath of fevered skies . But now no thought of storm was upon the forest . It lay entranced , drowsing with bowed head on folded arms , cherishing with its thick- lapped leaves a coolness born of its own deep shade . The path chosen by ...
... breath of fevered skies . But now no thought of storm was upon the forest . It lay entranced , drowsing with bowed head on folded arms , cherishing with its thick- lapped leaves a coolness born of its own deep shade . The path chosen by ...
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... breath of autumn flooded over me . The fine coral crowns of ash trees moved ever so slightly as with quiet breathing , leaves climbing slowly to earth by invisible stairways . Distant plumes of clematis looked like the spray of unseen ...
... breath of autumn flooded over me . The fine coral crowns of ash trees moved ever so slightly as with quiet breathing , leaves climbing slowly to earth by invisible stairways . Distant plumes of clematis looked like the spray of unseen ...
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