The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there; it wa...s like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of this county, and if elected they will have conferred a favor upon me,... for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to compensate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had kept opaque Down deeper than the canyons undersea... The sullen spectrum of a buried lake Nobody saw; not seen even by me....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These beginnings of commerce on a lake in the wilderness are very interesting,--these larger white birds that come to keep company... with the gulls.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rice and peas fit into that category of dishes where two ordinary foods, combined together, ignite a pleasure far beyond the capac...ity of either of its parts alone. Like rhubarb and strawberries, apple pie and cheese, roast pork and sage, the two tastes and textures meld together into the sort of subtle transcendental oneness that we once fantasized would be our experience when we finally found the ideal mate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,... I hear it in the deep heart's core.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »