In the atom's fizz and pop we heard possibility uncorked. Taffeta wraps whispered on davenports.... A new planet bloomed above us; in its light the stumps of cut pine gleamed like dinner plates. The world was beginning all over again, fresh and hot; we could have anything we wanted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But it's hard to farm Between the stumps:... The cows get thin, the milk tastes funny, The kids grow up and go to college They don't come back the little fir-trees doLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dear Friend, the canebrakes... nestled in the riverbank's lap, their clusters broken from the weight of blue bees, have in time become stumps.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fretted shadow on stumps A vanishing husk... Of light . . . grey lumps Of stone verge the hills with fears. It is quickly dusk.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We talk about a representative government; but what a monster of a government is that where the noblest faculties of the mind, and... the whole heart, are not represented! A semihuman tiger or ox, stalking over the earth, with its heart taken out and the top of its brain shot away. Heroes have fought well on their stumps when their legs were shot off, but I never heard of any good done by such a government as that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It appears that I saw about a dozen plants which had accompanied man as far into the woods as Chesuncook, and had naturalized them...selves there, in 1853. Plants begin thus early to spring by the side of a logging-path,--a mere vista through the woods, which can only be used in the winter, on account of the stumps and fallen trees,--which are at length are the roadside plants in old settlements. The pioneers of such are planted in part by the first cattle, which cannot be summered in the woods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As they are not seen on their way down the streams, it is thought by fishermen that they never return, but waste away and die, cli...nging to rocks and stumps of trees for an indefinite period; a tragic feature in the scenery of the river bottoms worthy to be remembered with Shakespeare's description of the sea-floor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was a very primitive kind of harbor, where boats were drawn up amid the stumps,--such a one, methought, as the Argo might have ...been launched in.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »