 ... characters of the country. Hill and valley followed valley and hill; the little green and stony cattle-tracks wandered in and out of one another, split into three or four, died away in marshy hollows, and began again sporadically on hillsides or at...  Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes - Page 59by Robert Louis Stevenson - 1886Full view - About this book
 | John Hays Gardiner - English language - 1900 - 520 pages
...again sporadically on hillsides or at the borders of a wood. There was no direct road to Oheylard, and it was no easy affair to make a passage in this...of parsley if I wandered all night upon the hills J As for these two girls, they were a pair of impudent sly sluts, with not a thought but mischief.... | |
 | William Franklin Webster, Alice Woodworth Cooley - English language - 1904 - 246 pages
...east, which was soon to grow incandescent and cast up that redhot cannon-ball, the rising sun. 16. He did not care a stalk of parsley if I wandered all night upon the hills. (See Section 70.) 17. One charm of Rome is that nobody has anything in particular to do, or, if he... | |
 | William Franklin Watson - 1904 - 244 pages
...east, which was soon to grow incandescent and cast up that redhot cannon-ball, the rising sun. 16. He did not care a stalk of parsley if I wandered all night upon the hills. (See Section 70.) 17. One charm of Rome is that nobody has anything in particular to do, or, if he... | |
 | Alice Woodworth Cooley, William Franklin Webster - English language - 1909 - 442 pages
...east, which was soon to grow incandescent and cast up that red-hot cannon-ball, the rising sun. 1 6. He did not care a stalk of parsley if I wandered all night upon the hills. (See Section 30.) 1 7. One charm of Rome is that nobody has anything in particular to do; or, if he... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Belgium - 1911 - 338 pages
...Another, having given me a direction which, as I found afterwards, I had misunderstood, com- 5 placently watched me going wrong without adding a sign. He did...put out her tongue at me, the other bade me follow ip the cows; and they both giggled and jogged each other's elbows. The Beast of Gevaudan ate about... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Cévennes Mountains (France) - 1911 - 326 pages
...Another, having given me a direction which, as I found afterwards, I had misunderstood, com20 placently watched me going wrong without adding a sign. He did...put out her tongue at me, the other bade me follow 25 the cows ; and they both giggled and jogged each other's elbows. The Beast of G6 vaudan ate about... | |
 | CHARLES H. SYLVESTER CHROUGH BOOKLAND - 1922 - 530 pages
...hollows, and began again sporadically on hillsides or at the borders of a wood. There was no direct road, and it was no easy affair to make a passage in this...all night upon the hills! As for these two girls, one put out her tongue at me, the other bade me follow the cows; and they both giggled and jogged each... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - Children's literature - 1922 - 530 pages
...hollows, and began again sporadically on hillsides or at the borders of a wood. There was no direct road, and it was no easy affair to make a passage in this...of parsley if I wandered all night upon the hills 1 As for these two girls, one put out her tongue at me, the other bade me follow the cows; and they... | |
 | Oliver S. Buckton - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 361 pages
...direction is fragile, and he seeks help in vain from an old man who "turned a deaf ear," while another "did not care a stalk of parsley if I wandered all night upon the hills!" (153). In his desperation, Stevenson seeks assistance from his donkey: "Soon the road that I was following... | |
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