Weather-fretted Abbots
Assuming these are carved in stone, though my first reading had me picturing a human 'weather-fretted' abbot.
Wishing you more...
The stuff of wine
Harry Eyres is a poet and a vintner, and his book on Horace is a delight that will be reviewed...
Cormorant-haunted castle
An abandoned fortress, occupied only by cormorants. No wonder, the human inhabitants probably fled an atmosphere described as the 'architecture...
Desert-colored shores
I liked this equatorial image transported to the Arctic to describe northern shores.
‘Desert-colored shores were never touched by Pleistocene...
Snow-blind sands
Eye dazzling whiteness of sand - I remember such a place in Brazil, where you could hardly gaze at the...
Dark-plumed name
The name of the man Orlando will marry is ornate and rare and fully deserving to be called 'dark-plumed': Marmaduke...
Hag-ridden night
A sense of a wakeful, traumatic night, ridden by witches and haunted by demons.
'... explains the distress of that...
Accordian-like adjustment
An obvious though unusual and simple metaphor for a flexible adaptation to things.
Source: Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams, p. 213
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Saint-encrusted towers
How many masons chipped away for how many centuries to create 'saint-encrusted towers', which would have to withstand the vibrating...
Kind-hearted termagant
Great word ‘termagant’, sadly underused and, referring as it does to bad-tempered women, no doubt politically unacceptable. Here it describes...
Dragon-green Byzantium
This magnificent walk across Europe in the early 1930s, a Europe which would be ripped apart by war in under...
An ocean of colours
Not a sight you'd expect to see on the steppes: a tulip-filled expanse. Never would I have associated this beautiful...
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