the painted windows, frecking gloom with glow

I don't like her; she is really up herself.

Brethren: Here is the pipe which your grandfathers used to smoke with when they met together in councils of peace. And here is some of that good tobacco, prepared for our grandfathers from God:—When you shall taste of it, you shall feel it through all your body; and it will put you in remembrance of the good councils your grandfathers used to hold with the English, your brethren, and that ancient friendship they had together.

He told me how the wise toad who squats among the kingcups by the stream in summer has a very precious jewel in his head.