Surely not venerable Rome--nor the green plain that compasses her round about, contrasting its brightness with her gray decay--nor the ruined arches that stand apart in the plain and clothe their looped and windowed raggedness with vines.
From there he ought to be able to catch his first glimpse of the tract which the school had redeemed from overgrown raggedness into a model farm, but as yet the dense leafage along the way cut off the view of the valley.
The scudding raggedness of the clouds had been swept into wider tatters now and the moon was steadier though still not brightly clear.
He was tall and loose-jointed, and his long hair and beard fell in barbaric raggedness about a face seamed with deep lines.
When the broken raggedness of peaks began to flatten toward the billowing bluegrass, his wonder grew.
She seemed fascinated by the picturesqueraggedness of the few colored people who lounged in the single street of the little village.
Then she strolled toward the fort, to look at an old colored beggar, whose raggedness was so picturesque that it fascinated her.
Some magic had lulled him, too, into a quietened mood from which had been smoothed the saw-edged raggedness of despair.
In the sea of moonlit brightness this strip of trees afforded a margin of soft, almost sooty obscurity, save where here and there darts of light fell through the raggedness of the foliage.
They met the familiar picturesqueraggedness of Southern Europe with the old kindly illusion that somehow it existed for their appreciation, and that it found adequate compensation for poverty in this.
