 There in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly the sunset Lighted the village street, and gilded the vanes on the chimneys, Matrons and maidens sat in snow-white caps and in kirtles Scarlet and blue and green, with distaffs spinning the golden...  Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie - Page 4by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 102 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1904 - 496 pages
...dormer-windows; and gables projecting as Over the basement below protected and shaded the doorway. There in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly...blue and green, with distaffs spinning the golden w Flax for the gossiping looms, whose noisy shuttles within doors Mingled their sound with the whir... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1904 - 448 pages
...with dormer-windows ; and gables projecting Over the basement below protected and shaded the doorway. There in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly...and maidens sat in snow-white caps and in kirtles Line 9. Strongly built were the houses, with frames of oak and of chesthut, Scarlet and blue and green,... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 738 pages
...with dormer-windows ; and gables projecting Over the basement below protected and shaded the doorway. There in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly...looms, whose noisy shuttles within doors Mingled their sounds with the whir of the wheels and the songs of the maidens. Solemnly down the street came the... | |
 | Hanson Hart Webster - 1905 - 480 pages
...dormer-windows ; and gables projecting u Over the basement below protected and shaded the doorway. There in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly...blue and green, with distaffs spinning the golden M Flax for the gossiping looms, whose noisy shuttles within doors Mingled their sound with the whir... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1905 - 196 pages
...with dormer-windows; and gables projecting Over the basement below protected and shaded the doorway. There in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly...and maidens sat in snow-white caps and in kirtles 40 Scarlet and blue and green, with distai'fs spinning the golden Flax for the gossiping looms, whose... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 730 pages
...with dormer-windows ; and gables projecting Over the basement below protected and shaded the doorway. There in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly...and maidens sat in snow-white caps and in kirtles 20 Scarlet and blue and green, with distaffs spinning the golden Flax for the gossiping looms, whose... | |
 | John Marshall, Orlando John Stevenson - 1904 - 296 pages
...below protected and shaded the door-way. There in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly the ' Lighted the village street, and gilded the vanes on...blue and green, with distaffs spinning the golden 40 Flax for the gossiping looms, whose noisy shuttles within doors Mingled their sound with the whir... | |
 | CURTIS HIDDE PAGE - 1905 - 746 pages
...protected and of oak and of hemlock, Such as the peasants of Normandy built in shaded the doorway. There in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly...the chimneys, Matrons and maidens sat in snow-white Scarlet and blue and green, with distaffs caps and in kirtles 20 spinning the golden Flax for the gossiping... | |
 | Sir Samuel Garth, Wilhelm Josef Leicht - 1905 - 610 pages
...with dormer-windows ; and gables projecting Over the basement below protected and shaded the doorway. There in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly...gilded the vanes on the chimneys, Matrons and maidens sät in snow-white caps and in kirtles 40 Scarlet and blue and green, with distaffs spinning the golden... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 740 pages
...and gilded the vanes on the chimneys, Matrons and maidens sat in snow-white caps and in kirtles 20 Scarlet and blue and green, with distaffs spinning...looms, whose noisy shuttles within doors Mingled their sounds with the whir of the wheels and the songs of the maidens. Solemnly down the street came the... | |
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