The parlor was always bright and attractive, the chessboard ready, the piano in tune, plenty of gay gossip, and a nice little supper set forth in tempting style.

a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble

Music was a context in which men and women, regardless of their political orientation, could express emotions, especially of grief and kefi, in modern Greece.

But still on the pastures and prairies of the Illinois country are born, each year, a new generation of Bartramian sandpipers, shore larks, yellow-winged sparrows and grass finches—the names by which we knew them in a day long gone.