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Algernon Blackwood

  • Simon Sushynskyhas quotedlast year
    But my emotion, so far as I could understand it, seemed to attach itself more particularly to the willow bushes, to these acres and acres of willows, crowding, so thickly growing there, swarming everywhere the eye could reach, pressing upon the river as though to suffocate it, standing in dense array mile after mile beneath the sky, watching, waiting, listening
  • Simon Sushynskyhas quotedlast year
    The melancholy shrill cry of a night-bird sounded overhead,
  • Belem EAhas quoted2 years ago
    , of Aberdeen, was interested in other things besides moose—amongst them the vagaries of the human mind
  • Belem EAhas quoted2 years ago
    He had, however, one objection to Défago, and one only—which was, that the French Canadian sometimes exhibited what Hank described as "the output of a cursed and dismal mind," meaning apparently that he sometimes was true to type, Latin type, and suffered fits of a kind of silent moroseness when nothing could induce him to utter speech.
  • Belem EAhas quoted2 years ago
    For all that, however, Punk had in him still the instincts of his dying race; his taciturn silence and his endurance survived; also his superstition
  • Belem EAhas quoted2 years ago
    Défago did not jump at the plan, but his silence seemed to convey something more than ordinary disapprov
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