Lucas's essays, Henri Fabre and Trotter, and at the same time keep harking back to reread Don Quixote, Tristram Shandy, Shelley and other favourites among the classics.
There is practically no conversation; the whole novel is a monologue, a going forward or a harking back to unravel intricate motives and to lay bare the souls of men and women.
They sat on the porch in the morning light, harking to the whistle of the quail in the corn, and watching the frightened deer scamper across the open.
Harking back to our hunting, however, hounds have marked their otter in his holt in a root or some other retreat, and the next job is to evict him.
Harking back to the river, a great many people imagine that when hounds hit off a line away from the water, and go full cry through a wood, across open country, or up some tiny streamlet, that they are running riot.
They had both been harkingback to childhood, and she had been telling Corliss of her mother, whom she faintly remembered.
For all her harking back to the primitive and stout defence of its sanity and truth, did his native philosophy give him the same code which she drew from her acquired philosophy?
Yet always he found himself harking back to what he sometimes called the "incurability" of life.
I suppose," he continued, "that a kind of harking back to the memories of one's youth is common to all aged persons.
And then she hung her head, perchance a little ashamed of this harking back to the conventions of her everyday life.
I was harking back to the Stoics not only because they were good to animals, if they were good, but because they seemed to have the same barren devotion to duty which has survived my faith as well as my creed.
But Macaulay certainly did not keep harking back to his text, if ever he returned to it at all.
The ladies, however, shook their heads, while Mme Hugon, herself somewhat embarrassed, kept harking back to the extreme respectability of his family.
But I'm harking back," he continued awkwardly; and he stopped.
I stopped, therefore, and, harking back to general subjects, chanced to compare my province with theirs.
While Goulding talked of Barraclough's voice production, while Tom Kernan, harking back in a retrospective sort of arrangement talked to listening Father Cowley, who played a voluntary, who nodded as he played.
Do you remember, harking back in a retrospective arrangement, Old Christmas night, Georgina Simpson's housewarming while they were playing the Irving Bishop game, finding the pin blindfold and thoughtreading?
She recognized acquaintances here and there, grown older now that her memories were harking back to past years; and the cabman, doubtless to spin out the drive, instead of following the Kanaal, turned up the Alexanderstraat.
We cannot hope to trace Bismarck to any complete legal basis--any more than we can defend the complete legitimacy of France, Belgium, or the United States, countries avowedly harking back to revolutionary origin.
The phrase brought Cleek's thoughts harking back to what he had been told regarding the little puddle of water lying on the floor, and of a sudden his eyes narrowed, and the curious one-sided smile travelled up his cheek.
Because I don't want Car'line or any one else peeking and harking to what I've got to say.
They were a merry party, casting aside their cares and years, and harking back to joyous boyhood and girlhood once more.
Roldan, I had it from Luis Torres, was in Xaragua, safe and arrogant, harking on Indian war, undermining everywhere.
Don Juan de Penelosa, harking us on, had an inspiration.
The whole thing was incredible, of course; there must be some harking back to gentle blood.
It is just a freak, or a harking back--many of the exquisitely aristocratic features one finds in old villagers, for instance, date from the droit de seigneur.
It goes back to the hardy Norseman who acknowledged no man as master, harking back to a time when there was no law, and to a people whose collective desire was supreme.
In fact, he turns out to have been on the main stream of progress, though pleading all the time that he was harking back to a happier past.
I thought for a little, in a momentary wave of courage, of leading the conversation in her direction by harking back to the day when the town was abandoned, and she took flight with the child into the woods.
How the queen died is not certainly known; But in the palace's solitude A harking dread and horror brood, And a silence, as if a mortal groan Had been hushed the moment before, and would Break forth again when you were gone.
Meanwhile, despite her injunctions to her husband to wait and be patient, his mind kept harking back on this curious recollection.
But his death, and the manner of it, shocked me dreadfully, and from the shock my brain kept harking away to Captain Coffin and his pursuer.
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