The red-painted farm-houses, peculiar to Norway, lay picturesquely scattered on the higher points of the undulating valley, where men and women were busy hay-making.

We won the match and I got on the scoresheet with a chip-and-gather try to cap a performance that did my confidence a world of good.

A doleful case desires a doleful song, Without vain art or curious complements.

[I]n this manner, Anne walking by her side, and Charles attending to his wife, they set forward, treading back with feelings unutterable, the ground, which so lately, so very lately, and so light of heart, they had passed along.