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One golden morning of a sunny day, I leant against the low stone wall that guarded a little village church, and I smoked, and drank in deep, calm gladness from the sweet, restful scene - the grey old church with its clustering ivy and its quaint carved wooden porch, the white lane winding down the hill between tall rows of elms, the thatched-roof cottages peeping above their trim-kept hedges, the silver river in the hollow, the wooded hills beyond!
We passed a very pretty little hotel, with clematis and creeper over the porch; but there was no honeysuckle about it, and, for some reason or other, I had got my mind fixed on honeysuckle, and I said:"Oh, don't let's go in there!
Every one had a friendly nod and a kind word for "poor Mrs. Edmunds"; and sometimes, when she stopped to exchange a few words with a neighbour at the conclusion of the service in the little row of elm-trees which leads to the church porch, or lingered behind to gaze with a mother's pride and fondness upon her healthy boy, as he sported before her with some little companions, her careworn face would lighten up with an expression of heartfelt gratitude; and she would look, if not cheerful and happy, at least tranquil and contented.
An old man entered the porch just as he reached it.
It was a strange old place, built of a kind of shingle, inlaid, as it were, with cross-beams, with gabled-topped windows projecting completely over the pathway, and a low door with a dark porch, and a couple of steep steps leading down into the house, instead of the modern fashion of half a dozen shallow ones leading up to it.
Mrs. Bardell, leaning on Jackson's arm, and leading Tommy by the hand, had already entered the porch.
The room they turned into was even more odd-looking than the porch.
Colonel Lysander Stark sprang out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch which gaped in front of us.
Then, assisted by Bicarat, the only one left standing, he bore Jussac, Cahusac, and one of Aramis’s adversaries who was only wounded, under the porch of the convent.
In the fading light I could see that the centre was a heavy block of building from which a porch projected.
A tall man had stepped from the shadow of the porch to open the door of the wagonette.
It was a good four miles of a walk, but when we reached it you would not wish to see a more cosy little house: all honeysuckle and creepers, with a wooden porch and lattice windows.
Never again did Champion Harrison throw his leg over the ropes of a twenty-four-foot ring; but the story of the great battle between the smith and the West Countryman is still familiar to old ring-goers, and nothing pleased him better than to re-fight it all, round by round, as he sat in the sunshine under his rose-girt porch.
A belfry rose above the porch on four small pillars, within which hung the green and weatherbeaten bell, the feeble sounds of which had been some time before heard by the Black Knight.
'Yes, sir.'Oblonsky put on his fur coat, and went out into the porch.
'Will it be enough?''Enough or not, we shall have to manage, that's clear,' said Matthew, closing the carriage door and stepping back into the porch.
She had not yet gone to bed, and Kuzma, whom she had roused, came running out barefoot and still half-asleep into the porch.
The wind blew boisterously into the little porch of the carriage, but on the platform, sheltered by the train, it was quiet.
At the porch stood a little cart strongly bound with leather and iron, and to the cart was harnessed a well-fed horse with broad, tightly-stretched straps.
In the porch, after leaving Karenin, the doctor met Slyudin, Karenin's private secretary, whom he knew very well.
However, in the morning everything was right; and toward nine o'clock – the hour till which the priest had been asked to defer mass – the children, beaming with joy, stood in all their finery by the carriage at the porch, waiting for their mother.
A closed carriage and two izvoshchiks were waiting at the front porch.
Anna looked out and saw Karenin's messenger in the porch ringing the bell.
He too stops at our place,' he began garrulously, leaning on the banisters of the porch.
The old master of the house left the porch and went to unharness the horses.
He rang for his valet, dressed hurriedly, and went out into the porch, having quite forgotten his dream and feeling worried only by the fact that he was late.
As he drove up to the Karenins' porch he again glanced at his watch and saw that it was ten minutes to nine.
CHAPTER IVKARENIN AFTER MEETING VRONSKY in his own porch went on as had been his intention to the Italian Opera.
It was past nine when he reached the Shcherbatskys' porch a second time.
Levin went out into the porch.
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