But it was now growing dark, so he decided to camp for the night by the
roadside and to resume the journey next morning by daybreak.
There were no fences at all by the
roadside now, and the land was rough and untilled.
Polly was so pleased that her violet eyes sparkled like amethysts, and she danced away from her companions across the bridge and into a group of feathery trees lining both the
roadsides. These trees she stopped to look at with pleasure and surprise, for their leaves were shaped like ostrich plumes, their feather edges beautifully curled; and all the plumes were tinted in the same dainty rainbow hues that appeared in Polychrome's own pretty gauze gown.
For some time now, things have been happening in this district that have been worrying him dreadfully--several people have disappeared, without leaving the slightest trace; a dead child was found by the
roadside, with no visible or ascertainable cause of death--sheep and other animals have been found in the fields, bleeding from open wounds.
The rosy-cheeked, bright-eyed quartet looked so charming in their light summer attire, clinging to the
roadside bank like pigeons on a roof-slope, that he stopped a moment to regard them before coming close.
It was now nightfall, and as I stood there at the
roadside in the deepening gloom, watching the blank outlines of the receding wagon, a sound was borne to me on the evening wind--a sound as of a series of vigorous thumps--and a voice came out of the night:
He preached, not only in churches, but in barns and in fields, by the
roadside or in the market-place, anywhere, in fact, where he could gather an audience.
After he had travelled a little way, he spied a dog lying by the
roadside and panting as if he were tired.
It stood close to the
roadside and over the door was a sign that read: "Miss Foolish Owl and Mr.
They carry it out in bundles to the
roadside, and the cart brings it away."
The last occasion on which he did this was just as he emerged from the shadow of a large tree that stood by the
roadside, and a gush of rich emotion rewarded him.
Yonder is a good oaken thicket by the roadside; take thee a cudgel thence and defend thyself fairly, if thou hast a taste for a sound drubbing."
Bide thee awhile till I get me a staff." So saying, he threw aside the rose that he had been holding all this time, thrust his sword back into the scabbard, and, with a more hasty step than he had yet used, stepped to the roadside where grew the little clump of ground oaks Robin had spoken of.
The soft black earth stood out in patches along the
roadsides. I resumed all my chores, carried in the cobs and wood and water, and spent the afternoons at the barn, watching Jake shell corn with a hand-sheller.
That curly grass which always grows by country
roadsides became clearly visible, still wet with the night's rain; the drooping branches of the birches, also wet, swayed in the wind and flung down bright drops of water to one side.