Phoebe was changed in this past year; she was no longer so sprightly in her little flirtations, her tongue had lost its rustic readiness, her eyes held a furtive something, as though she were always watching some memory.
The rustic comedy touched a long-atrophied fibre in Blanche.
Archelaus was standing with one elbow leaning upon a rustic pillar; he wore his uniform and looked like a king.
Taking a seat within a rustic arbor on the high shore of the lake, one is at liberty to peruse at leisure what, I dare say, is the most extraordinary sight of a lifetime.
One notes approvingly the revival of an olden taste in the cutting and shaping of trees into rustic chairs, stairways, and arbors.
Over there, to the left, is the rustic bridge, and hard by a clump of peeled birches throw their grateful shade over the hot road.
The best of them were something of the following pattern, which is too often superseded of late by a more pretentious, but infinitely less pleasing kind of rustic architecture.
We pass the "meeting of the waters," crossing a rustic bridge over the narrow strait.
We stopped at a post card shop just opposite the rear entrance to Farringford--a rustic gate opening into a narrow roadway between tall trees--and they told us that the ban on visitors was absolute.
This hat was founded on the shape of the “Sinnett” rustic hat worn by sailors in the Navy for so many years.
Up to about 1910, the great bulk of rustic boaters was blocked on presses of the Keston type, and even to-day boater makers still make use of them.
He, too, rose, sitting down again sidewise on the rustic rail of the summerhouse.
Coming to the little rustic gazebo perched on the tip of the Point, they entered and sat down.
Very often he must have heard mass in these rustic sanctuaries, alone with the celebrant.
They had seen him, in such moments, take up two bits of wood, and, accompanying himself with this rustic violin, improvise French songs in which he would pour out the abundance of his heart.
Martha brought the round tray--Oriental brass, finely chased with flowing Arabic inscriptions--and laid it down on the dainty little rustic table.
The four children of this world were left together on the lawn by the rustic table, to exchange views by themselves on the extraordinary behaviour and novel demeanour of the mysterious Alien.
Tables were spread, and great preparations were making for the rustic feast.
I think you'll be more comfortable on the bench," she suggested, and he returned to the rustic seat.
A glow of extreme pleasure warmed him, for this Rosalind with her rustic prettiness made an agreeable diversion from the somewhat monotonous evenings at Arden, and he vastly enjoyed angling about the edges of her rural pool.
She had led the way farther from the chateau while talking, and now she sat down on a rustic bench, and motioned Alphonse to take away the parasol.
She led the way to a rustic open summer-house veiled by a clump of trees, the smaller ones forming a semicircle that enclosed a sunlit, grassy space descending gradually from the summer-house to a row of shrubs that grew along the river.
Turn we, then at Povey Cross for a rusticinterlude into the byways, making for Charlwood and Ifield.
Striking is the contrast between them and a group of sunburnt haymakers squatted in the centre, men and women in rustic garments, gazing wonderingly around from amid many-coloured bundles, piles of scythes, and scattered sickles.
Presently the young men came in, and the lasses having changed their rustic garb for holiday gowns and dangling gold ear-drops, we walked in procession across fields to the rendezvous.
The little houses have a very rustic appearance, built of squared logs black with age, set off by stripes of white clay along all the joints, and a stripe of green paint around the windows.
With so many visitors Warmbrunn has an appearance of life and gaiety; the somewhat rustic shops put on an upstart look, or a timid show of gentility.
The aged hostess at the Gasthaus bustled about with surprising alacrity to answer the calls of her rusticguests for beer.
Our next halt shall be at the old Saxon town of Altenburg, where there is something to be seen and heard of worth remembering; then over the Erzgebirge to Carlsbad, the bathing-place of kings, and through the rustic villages to Prague.
Thus, with his rustic Czechs, Mr. Barrande could carry on investigations at a distance, while in his study at Prague he prepared his truly great work for publication.
Then parties of woodcutters, well armed with axes and wedges, enter the train, and each man lights his pipe, and they talk of their craft among themselves in a rustic dialect.
Many similar buildings are scattered among the mountains--cause of thankfulness to weary travellers, for the inmates are always ready with rustic fare and lodging.
Green River (775 miles), a gentle, rustic stream, enters through the wide bottoms of Kentucky.
There are, however, small rustic towns in plenty; we are seldom out of sight of these.
Yet we seldom pass a day, in the most rustic sections, without seeing from half-a-dozen to a dozen of these craft.
We finally found a narrow triangle of clay terrace, in Indiana, at the mouth of Crooked Creek (727 miles), where not long since had tarried a houseboater engaged in making rustic furniture.
But although Yellow Creek winds most gracefully and is altogether a charming bit of rustic water, deep-set amid picturesque slopes of field and wood, we fail to find upon its banks an appropriate camping-place.
Occasionally, to-day, we have seen moored to some rustic landing a great covered barge, quite of the fashion of the golden age of Ohio boating.
Residence so far from town brought the foreigners into friendly contact also with their rustic neighbours, whose innate good qualities, moderation, contentment, and kindliness were displayed in a very favourable light.
To thee alone the Ovid of our Spain Does homage with the rustic kiss and cuff.
I did not make much opposition to this, for they will not only reflect our rustic figures within, but the trees and grass without.
The custom of the country and the time sanctioned a freedom of manners, and a frequency of meeting on the part of rustic amorists, of which he was not slow to avail himself.
Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
Yü-ts'un lost all patience with him, and withdrew again from the compound with the intention of going as far as the village public house to have a drink or two, so as to enhance the enjoyment of the rustic scenery.
