A packet of yellow love letters
What happened to all those love letter in a private drawer, sent and kept over centuries when this was the...
Scant-leaved boughs
Looking out onto the winter leaf-bare boughs, I liked this autumnal image of apples shining like baubles on scant-leaved branches.
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Unexpected ignorance, unexpected knowledge
Maggie Tulliver is a girl whose brightness and spirit are constantly curtailed and nearly crushed. Throughout her childhood she is...
To listen as to a recurrent music
What a beautiful description of listening out for someone's voice.  Despite Adam's listening for her voice so, it doesn't yet...
Two points of view
Very important to keep an open mind and allow yourself the possibility of having more than one view point. How...
Beware the Bartle blade
Bartle has much learning and little patience with fools or slouchers. As an example of that cutting tongue, here is...
It runs in families like …
George Eliot uses an asthmatic simile to reveal the religious prejudices of her characters. If they considered that it runs...
Clean as a snowdrop
We're edging towards snowdrop time, their pristine pendant-petals peeking through the mud and cold, like tiny bright lanterns lighting the...
Grim-looking gown
Marvelous scene this. A village fête where prizes are doled out to the lower orders by their betters. Arthur, dashing...
As hard as…
Mrs Poyser has strong and generally accurate opinions about the people around her, and she nails Hetty's character in a...
Liver-coloured foal
One of the most unusual descriptions of a colour I have come across, and I also liked the gawkiness of...
Prize apples and withered crabs
A vivid juxtaposition of a ruddy, healthy, good-natured farmer and a slim and slippery old squire.
'As he stood, red,...
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