Forks ceased their perpendicular traveling.
Bess Streeter AldrichThen she laughed, a bubbling, deliciously girlish laugh, and the Thing relaxed its hold on her heart, turned up its toes, and died.
Bess Streeter AldrichHair, to Tillie, meant nothing by way of being a woman's crowning glory. It was merely, as the dictionary so ably states, small horny, fibrous tubes with
bulbous roots, growing out of the skins of mammals; and it was meant to be combed down as flat as possible and held in place with countless wire hairpins.
...Mabel put on the boiled potatos, unmashed, the stewed tomatos, some inferior dried beef, and some bread that plainly said, 'Darling, I am growing old'.
Bess Streeter AldrichBetty, who had found an old battered doll, was sitting quietly in the corner and industriously endeavoring to pick its one eye out
Bess Streeter AldrichJunior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be hung. Others, less irritable, think that gently chloroforming them would seem more humane. A great many good-natured folks contend that incarceration for a couple of years would prove the best way to dispose of them.
Bess Streeter Aldrich...For can you think how it would be, to never, never hear a meadow lark sing again...?
Bess Streeter AldrichI . . . you mean me?"
"Quite naturally, when I said, 'What about you, yourself,' I meant
you.
The wheels where enormous wooden affairs, the back ones rounding up over the windows of the coach.
Bess Streeter AldrichFor though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady glow of its fire still shines on the hearth-stones of countless homes...
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