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“Through the voiceless darkness a few feathery prophecies of coming snow were settling lazily downward.”
― Holiday Tales: Christmas in the Adirondacks
― Holiday Tales: Christmas in the Adirondacks
“The sky hung over the frozen world like a dome of gray steel, whose invisibly matched plates were riveted here and there by a few white, gleaming stars.”
― Holiday Tales: Christmas in the Adirondacks
― Holiday Tales: Christmas in the Adirondacks
“When food is well prepared it delights the eye, it intoxicates the nose, it pleases the tongue, it stimulates the appetite, and prolongs the healthy craving which it finally satisfies, even as the song of the mother charms the child which it gradually composes for slumber.”
― Holiday Tales: Christmas in the Adirondacks
― Holiday Tales: Christmas in the Adirondacks
“with good appetites and a cheerful mind let us all fall to eatin'.”
― Holiday Tales: Christmas in the Adirondacks
― Holiday Tales: Christmas in the Adirondacks
“The surface of the snow sparkled with crystals that flashed colorlessly cold. The air seemed armed, and full of sharp, eager points that pricked the skin painfully. The great tree-trunks cracked their sharp protests against the frosty entrances being made beneath their bark. The lake, from under the smothering ice, roared in dismay and pain, and sent the thunders of its wrath at its imprisonment around the resounding shores.”
― Holiday Tales: Christmas in the Adirondacks
― Holiday Tales: Christmas in the Adirondacks
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