 | Lucy A. Chittenden - English language - 1884 - 204 pages
...him who was speeding before them blown by the blast of fate, like a dead leaf over the desert. 13. White as the snow were his locks, and his cheeks as brown as the oak-leaves. 14. Like an awakened con-science the sea was tossing and moaning. METAPHOR. If we say, He teas a lion... | |
 | Jakob Schipper - English language - 1888 - 498 pages
...einsilbigen Wörtern bestehen, sind keineswegs selten ; so citiert Elze aus Longfellows Evangeline : White as the snow were his locks, and his cheeks as brown as the oak leaves — And the great seal of the luw was set like a uin on a margin — Then the good Basil... | |
 | College prose, American - 1888 - 138 pages
...herds were returning from the pasture. Within the great oak built farmhouse sat Evangeline's father. " Hearty and hale was he, an oak that is covered with snow-flakes, White as snow were his locks, and his cheeks as blown as the oak leaves." Near by sat the ever-busy Evangeline... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1889 - 264 pages
...village, and nearer the Basin of Minas, Benedict Bellefontaine, the wealthiest farmer of GrandPrd, Dwelt on his goodly acres ; and with him, directing...Evangeline lived, his child, and the pride of the village. Stalwart and stately in form was the man of seventy winters ; Hearty and hale was he, an oak that is... | |
 | Jean Sherwood Rankin - English language - 1903 - 360 pages
...people, from henceforth even forever." Sometimes, the introductory word is omitted, as in the line, " Hearty and hale was he, an oak, that is covered with snowflakes." Sometimes, too, the simile makes its comparison thru the descriptive word itself, as in the line, "... | |
 | William T. Vlymen - Readers - 1904 - 520 pages
...village, and nearer the Basin of Minas, Benedict Bellefontaine, the wealthiest farmer of GrandPre, Dwelt on his goodly acres; and with him, directing...locks, and his cheeks as brown as the oak-leaves. Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers; Black were her eyes as the berry that grows... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1904 - 448 pages
...village, and nearer the Basin of Minas, Benedict Bellefontaine, the wealthiest farmer of GrandPre, Dwelt on his goodly acres ; and with him, directing...the snow were his locks, and his cheeks as brown as 'he oak-leaves. Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the... | |
 | American literature - 1904 - 496 pages
...wealthiest farmer of Grand-Pre", Dwelt on his goodly acres ; and with him, directing his household, eo Gentle Evangeline lived, his child, and the pride...locks, and his cheeks as brown as the oak-leaves. Ifair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers ; . 69 Black were her eyes as the berry that... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Acadians - 1904 - 124 pages
...farmer of GrandPre, EVANGELINE 27 Dwelt on his goodly acres; and with him, directing his household, 6° Gentle Evangeline lived, his child, and the pride...hale was he, an oak that is covered with snowflakes ; Whit© as the snow were his locks, and his cheeks as brown as the oak-leaves. Fair was she to behold,... | |
 | Larkin Dunton, Augustus Hill Kelley - English language - 1904 - 292 pages
...village, and nearer the Basin of Minas, Benedict Bellefontaine, the wealthiest farmer of GrandPre, Dwelt on his goodly acres ; and with him, directing...Evangeline lived, his child and the pride of the village. 54. I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a... | |
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Hearty and hale was he, an oak that is covered with snow-flakes; White as the snow were his locks, and his cheeks as brown as the oak-leaves. 
