Shade
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No doubt six o'clock had struck; landers, porters from the pit-eye, and grooms were going away in bands, mixed with the vague and laughing figures of the screening girls in the
shade.
It was foolish, and he hastened his steps, so as not to yield to it; but his feet slackened of their own accord, and at the first lamppost he concealed himself in the
shade.
Then, after passing the Voreux, and at last free to go and dine at Rasseneur's, he continued to follow them, accompanying them to the settlement, where he remained standing in the
shade
for a quarter of an hour, waiting until Chaval left Catherine to enter her home.
And beyond, in the flat plain,
shade
had submerged everything, Montsou, Marchiennes, the forest of Vandame, the immense sea of beetroot and of wheat, in which there only shone, like distant lighthouses, the blue fires of the blast furnaces, and the red fires of the coke ovens.
But the engine, with its great steel limbs starred with copper shining up above in the shade, no longer attracted his attention, nor the cables which flew by with the black and silent motion of a nocturnal bird, nor the cages rising and plunging unceasingly in the midst of the noise of signals, of shouted orders, of trains shaking the metal floor.
And as he turned toward Madame Grégoire, opening the drawing-room door himself, he was much surprised to observe, seated on the hall bench, a man whom he had not distinguished before in the deepening
shade.
He shuddered as he entered this dark icy room, where it was some time before his eyes were able to see the unfortunate people whose presence he guessed by the deepening of the
shade.
These various types of shrubbery were as big as trees in the temperate zones; in the damp
shade
between them, there were clustered actual bushes of moving flowers, hedges of zoophytes in which there grew stony coral striped with twisting furrows, yellowish sea anemone from the genus Caryophylia with translucent tentacles, plus anemone with grassy tufts from the genus Zoantharia; and to complete the illusion, minnows flitted from branch to branch like a swarm of hummingbirds, while there rose underfoot, like a covey of snipe, yellow fish from the genus Lepisocanthus with bristling jaws and sharp scales, flying gurnards, and pinecone fish.
Under the green
shade
of some tropical evergreens, I spotted a few savages who looked extremely startled at our approach.
There were mimosas, banyan trees, beefwood, teakwood, hibiscus, screw pines, palm trees, all mingling in wild profusion; and beneath the
shade
of their green canopies, at the feet of their gigantic trunks, there grew orchids, leguminous plants, and ferns.
They are said to follow ships in search of refreshing
shade
from the hot tropical sun, and they did just that with the Nautilus, as they had once done with the vessels of the Count de La Pérouse.
My heavy soles were crushing the skeletons of animals from the age of fable, animals that used to take cover in the
shade
of these trees now turned to stone!
Black in the shade, dark blue in broad daylight, they had, as it were, depths of different colours, that, darker in the centre, grew paler towards the surface of the eye.
She would have liked to live in some old manor-house, like those long-waisted chatelaines who, in the
shade
of pointed arches, spent their days leaning on the stone, chin in hand, watching a cavalier with white plume galloping on his black horse from the distant fields.
And the
shade
of the argand lamp fastened to the wall above Emma's head lighted up all these pictures of the world, that passed before her one by one in the silence of the dormitory, and to the distant noise of some belated carriage rolling over the Boulevards.
He came to greet her, and stood in the
shade
in front of the Lheureux's shop under the projecting grey awning.
From her turned-up hair a dark colour fell over her back, and growing gradually paler, lost itself little by little in the
shade.
What happy afternoons they had seen alone in the
shade
at the end of the garden!
An azure infinity encompassed her, the heights of sentiment sparkled under her thought, and ordinary existence appeared only afar off, down below in the shade, through the interspaces of these heights.
The porcelain night-light threw a round trembling gleam upon the ceiling, and the drawn curtains of the little cot formed as it were a white hut standing out in the shade, and by the bedside Charles looked at them.
After a few moments Rodolphe stopped; and when he saw her with her white gown gradually fade away in the
shade
like a ghost, he was seized with such a beating of the heart that he leant against a tree lest he should fall.
Nor had I reflected upon this at first, and I rested in the
shade
of that ideal happiness as beneath that of the manchineel tree, without foreseeing the consequences."
Night was darkening over the walls, on which still shone, half hidden in the shade, the coarse colours of four bills representing four scenes from the "Tour de Nesle," with a motto in Spanish and French at the bottom.
The church like a huge boudoir spread around her; the arches bent down to gather in the
shade
the confession of her love; the windows shone resplendent to illumine her face, and the censers would burn that she might appear like an angel amid the fumes of the sweet-smelling odours.
They sat at the bottom, both hidden by the shade, in silence.
One day, when they had parted early and she was returning alone along the boulevard, she saw the walls of her convent; then she sat down on a form in the
shade
of the elm-trees.
How often, my thoughts straying back to the ball-rooms of Paris, which I had forsaken overnight, my elbows leaning upon those great blocks of stone of a fine grey with a
shade
of blue in it, have I swept with my gaze the vale of the Doubs!
'I like shade,' replied M. de Renal with the touch of arrogance appropriate when one is addressing a surgeon, a Member of the Legion of Honour; 'I like shade, I have my trees cut so as to give shade, and I do not consider that a tree is made for any other purpose, unless, like the useful walnut, it _yields a return_.'
Artless and innocent as she was, this honest provincial had never tormented her soul in an attempt to wring from it some little sensibility to some novel
shade
of sentiment or distress.
'Each of those damned walnuts,' M. de Renal would say when his wife admired them, 'costs me half an acre of crop; the corn will not grow in their shade.'
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