Bun-faced man
Bland and bun-faced isn't a winning combination, even before he imposes his cricket-talk on people who don't share his enthusiasm.
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Rain-sodden gallowglasses
Seamus Heaney describes an Ulster of:
... hill-forts, cattle-raids, and rain-sodden gallowglasses where Hugh O'Neill was born and to...
Soft-eyed cattle
If you have ever stopped to commune with cows in a field, you’ll have noted their softness of gaze, big-eyed...
Tempest-haunting birds
I picture scurf-surfing cormorants and carrion birds buffeted by winds in anticipation of sailors' corpses washing up on the wind-blasted...
Shqip-speaking Atticans
Intrigued by this curious linguistic geographic cocktail, I have learned that Shqip is Albanian and Sfax is a city in...
New-dropped lamb
You can see the wobbly gait of these fragile newborns.
'Young lambs in a green pasture in the...
Ice-choked rivers
A European would normally use ‘choked’ to describe a river full of algae or weeds or pollution. ‘Ice-choked’ gives a...
Sad-eyed pools
When earth is parched it often repels the water it needs, which just glances off the surface. If rain persists,...
Handsome-bodied warriors
Ah, it all boils down to wounded pride and vexation over the loss of a woman. Achilles withdraws from the...
Stone-smooth sky
This caught my eye simply because I can't recall having seen such a sky, and can scarcely imagine it. Clouded,...
Light-drenched empyrean
As I write this, we have been shrouded with a dense winter fog, and yet a sudden burst of sunshine...
Pattern-working chaplain
Thoreau isn't a big fan of chaplains and other purveyors of religion and here he takes a swipe at three...
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