In the evening she went out of the house until she was sure he had taken the
wood to her room and gone away.
The waters in the
woods, and on the great lakes, run downward until they lie like my hand," said the Indian, stretching the limb horizontally before him, "and then they run no more.
And now, because he was afraid that their stepmother might not treat them well and might do them harm, he put them in a lonely castle that stood in the middle of a
wood.
She flew over the
wood, and alighted opposite the house of the bushy long-tailed gentleman.
Night now closed in more completely, and many lights began to flit through the
wood, just as those fiery exhalations from the earth, that look like shooting-stars to our eyes, flit through the heavens; a frightful noise, too, was heard, like that made by the solid wheels the ox-carts usually have, by the harsh, ceaseless creaking of which, they say, the bears and wolves are put to flight, if there happen to be any where they are passing.
Happily the temple walls were built of brick and
wood, which could be penetrated with little difficulty; after one brick had been taken out, the rest would yield easily.
But I caught her up, and in spite of her struggles, plunged boldly before me into the
wood.
The sausage started in search of
wood, the bird made the fire, and the mouse put on the pot, and then these two waited till the sausage returned with the fuel for the following day.
A third person rode up circumspectly through the
wood (it was plain that he had had a lesson) and stopped behind the count.
He turned the piece of
wood in his hand nearer to the light, and looked lower down it.
I can't go through the Haunted
Wood, Marilla," cried Anne desperately.
Joyful sounds will 'come ringing down the wind;' a wealth of gypsy gold will be ours for the gathering; we will learn the potent, unutterable charm of a dim spruce
wood and the grace of flexile mountain ashes fringing a lonely glen; we will tryst with the folk of fur and feather; we'll hearken to the music of gray old firs.
