Once more Gordon Duncan's tone was mellowwith memories.
When at last she spoke again her tones were deep and mellow like the low notes of a cello.
He had a wonderful instinct of music, and really played in a marvellous manner upon this simple instrument, exhibiting skill even in the choice of the whistle-- for it is difficult to find one that has a mellow tone.
When they told her about the robin and the first flight of the young ones she laughed a motherly little mellow laugh in her throat.
The first land they used was on the cliffs, for it had already been improved by Indian planting; then the salt marshes, covered with a natural crop of grass, and then the mellow intervales near the river.
She holds fair forms of ferns and seeds, Lichens and fruits and burnished reeds, And pours, in wake of mellow harvest, Splendors of flame on the leaves and weeds.
Its curving lines that fill the sight, Like mellow meteor's path of light, Or orbèd spring of walls of azure, My spirit greet from the infinite.
The grains of seed all viewless fell Within the mellow soil to dwell,-- Silent the fall as that of pebbles Cast in oblivion's sunless well.
While I am pouring out and tasting a mellow glass of port, let me briefly recall what and whence I am.
The angry opponents frown at each other, and in the interim the Austrian Student in his mellow voice begins an interminable story of personal reminiscence, apropos of nothing and starting nowhere, but intensely absorbing.
The full moon hangs above the river, bathing the waters in mellow light.
We learned also that for roots to do these things well, the soil in which they grow must be mellow and firm, and must contain moisture and plant food, air must circulate in its pores and it must be warm.
Plant roots need for their growth and development (see Chapter II): A mellow yet firm soil.
These truths are as follows: The roots of farm plants need for their best growth and development: A firm, mellow soil.
We have found the conditions which are necessary for the growth and development of plant roots, namely: A firm, mellow soil.
Therefore, for rapid growth the root needs a mellow soil.
These conditions, as learned in Chapter II, are as follows: The root must have a firm yet mellow soil.
The soft tender root tips will force their way through a mellow soil with greater ease and rapidity than through a hard soil, and the more rapid the root growth the more rapid the development of the plant.
Some, appearing to shoot from the sky over high perpendicular crags into the fjord, or gurgling in deep gorge unseen, send mellow music floating in the balmy air above in delicious waves of sweetest sound.
He asked for no higher happiness than to sit by her side, looking into her face and listening to her mellow voice.
Mr. Kilroy, still quietly observing her, noticed that her equanimity had been suddenly restored; but whether it was the mellowtones of her violin or some happy thought that had released the tension he could not tell.
Slowly the mellow notes followed each other, filling the night with sound, and dying away in a long reverberation when the twelfth had struck.
They could hear a horse champing in the pasture; the wail of an Italian infant came to them thinly across the green; behind them sounded mellow the tin horn of the shad vendor.
Voices and the clink of bottle and glass: nothing mellow in the voices, nothing genial in the clink of glass--nothing friendly or hospitable.
The shadows were already long; and in the west--above the hills which shut the sea from sight--the blue of mellow weather and of the day was fading.
They have, in consequence, a prevailing air of unthriftiness in personal matters, which, however it may operate to the prejudice of the pocket of the individual, has a mellow and kindly effect upon his disposition.
He heard the young man's footsteps diminish on the stairway; and again he smiled the indulgent, melancholy smile of mellow years.
But his hands were old, delicate, fine and fragile; and the lips beneath the drooping white mustache at times trembled, almost imperceptibly, with the generous sentiments that come with mellow age.
From the time when I was three years of age, this great name had rung in my ears like the sound of a mellow bell.
In short, the place had the mellow charm of a completed home, and I said to Zulime "There isn't much more to do to it.
A blazing fire of bog deal was lighted in the old hall, whose mellow glare glanced along the dark oak wainscot, and threw a rich glow along the corridor itself, to the very door of the tower.
It was a calm and peaceful hour; not a leaf moved in the still air; and all in the glen seemed bathed in the tranquil influence of the mellow sunset.
