For the most part, there was no recognition of human life in the night; no human breathing was heard, only the breathing of the wi...nd. As we sat up, kept awake by the novelty of our situation, we heard at intervals foxes stepping about over the dead leaves, and brushing the dewy grass close to our tent, and once a musquash fumbling among the potatoes and melons in our boat; but when we hastened to the shore we could detect only a ripple in the water ruffling the disk of a star. At intervals we were serenaded by the song of a dreaming sparrow or the throttled cry of an owl; but after each sound which near at hand broke the stillness of the night, each crackling of the twigs, or rustling among the leaves, there was a sudden pause, and deeper and more conscious silence, as if the intruder were aware that no life was rightfully abroad at that hour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whose denizens can turn upon the world With spitting tongue, an odor, talon, claw,... To sting or soil benevolence, alien As our clumsy traps, our random scatter of shot. She swept to the kitchen. Turning on the tap, She washed and washed the pity from her hands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He took control of me for forty-five minutes. This time I'll have control over him for the rest of his life. If he gets out fiftee...n years from now, I'll know. I'll check on him every three months through police computers. If he makes one mistake he's going down again. I'll make sure. I'm his worst enemy now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »