The contrast between the high summer, the rich life of herb and tree, and his own weary and arid thoughts, fell on him like a flash.
Joy seemed to him like a little pool of crystalline water, charming enough if tended and sheltered, but a thing that could be soiled and scattered in a moment by the onrush of some foul and violent beast.
Sometimes he would see her driving, wrapped in furs, her tiny Japanese dog curled up in a fold of her sables, and on her lap a knot of violets, the fresh scent of which came to him like a sweet breath on the air as she passed.
That curiously tender adoration of a true woman's heart which is so often wasted on an unworthy object, seemed to him like lifting a cup of gold to a swine's snout.
He accepted things as they were without criticism, and they appeared to him like a turgid dream swollen and bleak as the confused expanse of distance before him.
To wake up in the morning alone in his bed, and to be free to go forth to his business without question seemed to him like Heaven.
There were always two of them now--Pelle and this wonderful, invisible ego, which lay securely and weightily within him like a living thing, with its roots in the darkness.
It was a long time since Pelle had heard her sing; and the song was to him like a radiant assurance that this time he would be the victor.
And now, so surely as she leaned silently on his arm, she confirmed something deep within him, and her steadfast gaze vibrated within him like a proud vocation, and he felt himself infinitely rich.
The others took care of him like brothers; but it was a marvel that he had not gone to the dogs.
Her will pursued him and surrounded him like a wall; he had a faint consciousness of the fact, but made no attempt to bestir himself.
The whole town, and the little hill out of which it grew as naturally as an ancient wood, seemed to him like a being lying there half asleep on the plain and crooning to itself as it dozed.
The author poked the fire vigorously, emotion rising in him like a tide.
Silence had to lift him up into his own arms and carry him like a baby.
On the floor Smoke moved softly in front of him like a black shadow, his eyes gleaming as he turned his head, still trying with many insinuating gestures and much purring to bring about the introductions he desired.
She had listened to him like this, almost breathlessly, ever since her sudden faintness, listened as though she would draw his very soul in through her ears.
Her young and wistful voice came to him like a fragrance.
Sylvie's face turned up to him like a white flower to the sun it lives by, without seeing.
All this was to him like yesterday, a long yesterday, a yesterday gone over innumerable times, analysed, meditated upon for years.
All the world will be speaking of him like this to-morrow.
He struck in impatiently with the remark that such lamentations over a man merely because he had taken a wife seemed tohim like lunacy.
In the days when he was most fully in the public eye the invincible obscurity of his origins clung to him like a shadowy garment.
Now, after twenty years of his second edition, that old tragedy seemed to him like a previous existence--which had ended when Fleur was born in place of the son he had hoped for.
She appeared to him like nothing so much as a pump with two handles, lightly clad in snow.
Soames took steps and came on what looked to him like a lamp-post bent by collision with a motor omnibus.
Had she meant to be merciless to him like that; to send him away utterly discouraged in his sad humility, when the touch of an outreached hand would have changed the whole face of the world for him?
She thinks Rodney would have 'wanted' me more, if I hadn't thrown myself at him like that.
He said he didn't know why her request had got him like that.
She looked at him like a wounded bird: "No reason if you don't want to.
I don't believe for one second she looked at him like that.
Yes, I worked on him like a beaver after I got back this afternoon, and finally, vowing he would ne'er consent, he consented.
I had no doubt that Gussie must have reached for the Bassett and clasped her to him like a stevedore handling a sack of coals.
Despite the confidence with which he had stated his view that the cupboard contained Fink-Nottles, it plainly disconcerted him to have the chap fizzing out at him like this.
Her glad little cry rang in his ears, and he felt her clinging to him like a cat.
Life was to him like strong, white light that hurts the tired eyes of a sick person.
Twill be to him like a bone to a cur-dog to take his ainemies thus red-haanded.
I've seen Cap'n Evan Shelby roaring at him like a bull and Jim just staring back at him, as gentle as a girl, till the Cap'n began to stutter and dried up.
He had been brought up as a boy from Eton to see Wellington's funeral, and the sight had not impressed him like this.
They went their way and never a word more would Borlase answer, though Green kept at him like a running brook to change his mind and act like a sensible man and not let a piece of folly spoil his own life.
Joey slept in a little room alongside his parents and, of course, Minnie was up to him like a flash of lightning, with Joseph after her.
He grew steadily stronger, though each time he tried to run or spring a distance of a few feet his legs doubled under him like that.
If Joanne had come to him like this, making him forget his work, filling him more and more with the thrilling desire to fight for her, was it so very strange that a beast like Quade would fight--in another way?
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