| 单词 | tarn |
| 例句 | They stood and watched five others die, one in the mouth of a dragon, the others thrown off into the black tarn, sinking and vanishing. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “The tarn, is it ‘black and lurid’ enough?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I was asked by a plain woman in a large black velvet tarn. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The map showed just three tarns in those mountains, remnant glacial ponds, all off the trail, but otherwise no indication of water at all. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She groped through the years for Miss Martineau, but Mrs. E.C.B. was easy: she remembered a crocheted tarn, a crocheted dress through which peeped pink crocheted drawers, and crocheted stockings. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I was asked by a plain woman in a large black velvet tarn. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z With the gray suit, she wore a cherry-colored tarn pulled over one eye and vici-kid high buttoned shoes with spool heels. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a voice that spoke as ice speaks when it breaks on a winter tarn, or as men's bones speak when a killer cracks them. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Every foot of the landscape from here on north would be scored and scarred with reminders of glaciation—scattered boulders called erratics, drumlins, eskers, high tarns, cirques. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z This stark and mysterious basin harbors hidden tarns and disappearing waterways and is surrounded by spiraling peaks. Best of the best: Author's 10 picks from new Washington ‘Classic Hikes’ guide 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Lakes, meres, waters or tarns — all are beautiful. Follow Beatrix Potter through England’s lovely Lake District 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The alpine highlands were a swirl of tarns, meadows and shattered mountains. Explorer: In Utah, a 100-Mile Trek With a 4-Year-Old Boy 2013-06-14T20:06:25Z The tarn sits in a granite basin, ringed by grass and rocks. In Colorado, three generations achieve a peaceful family vacation at high elevation 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z I learned that a tarn is a pond, a gill is a stream, and duckboards are slats across boggy ground. So, you’re hiking across rural Britain? Walking the walk is the easy part. 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z When we came upon a tarn, or alpine lake, we stopped in our tracks, entranced by an oval frame of water reflecting dark forest, blue skies and the snow-covered ridges of mountain peaks. Journeys: Step by Step, Hut by Hut in Colorado 2011-08-19T18:55:00Z After an additional 2,000 feet of elevation, you’ll reach your destination: meadows with tarns and a view of Glacier Peak. Waterfalls now, wildflowers later: 8 hikes for this spring and summer 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z After the glacier is gone, the bowl at the bottom of the cirque is often occupied by a lake called a tarn. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z The Alpine Lakes Wilderness, the chunk of national forest in the Central Cascades where you’ll find these shimmering aquatic delights, lives up to its name with more than 700 lakes, ponds and tarns. Snow, Source and Annette lakes are closed this summer. Here are 6 other worthwhile hikes to lakes 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z The area where the afternoon tea was found on Monday, between Great Langdale and Little Langdale, is considered one of the most spectacular of the many Lakeland tarns. Lake District mysterious abandoned tea-for-two found in woodland 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Groups were camping by tarns, with "fires on summit cairns" and 20 people were "partying" on a fell, they said. Hundreds found illegally camping in Lake District 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z They vary in size from the little mountain tarn filling up one of the mouths of the crater to the great dead sea, Corangamite, more than 90 miles round, and covering 49,000 acres. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z A lake that is confined to a glacial cirque is known as a tarn such as Silver Lake near Brighton Ski resort located in Big Cottonwood Canyon or Avalanche Lake in Glacier National Park. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z The latter is a tarn at the foot of the glaciers of the Vignemale, which, you know, is one of the mountain-monarchs hereabouts. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z Mr Cooper, a climate change photographer from Ambleside, said he was walking in the woods to the north of the tarn when he spotted the table and chairs. Lake District mysterious abandoned tea-for-two found in woodland 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z It was a cove, a huge recess, That keeps, till June, December's snow; A lofty precipice in front, A silent tarn below! The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades 2012-02-16T03:00:03.167Z The advent of an old man and an old woman would be like the throwing of a stone into a tarn. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z Each tarn is edged with blossom, each path is tricked with glory. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z Under their shadows gleam the storied lochs, the wild tarns and trosachs, whose picturesque and romantic beauties have been immortalized by the pens of Burns, Scott, and Wilson. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z Romantic vales stole winding to my eye In gradual loveliness, like rising dreams; Fair, nameless tarns, that seem to blend with sky Rocks of wild majesty, and elfin streams. The Isle of Palms and Other Poems 2012-02-04T03:00:15.103Z Why, I could see Burnmoor tarn, of which he had made particular mention, and--and it lay like a pool of ink upon a sheet of white paper. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z He had traced it past the tarn and half the way to Borrowdale, when of a sudden a smile dawned through the gloom on his face, "The path to Keswick!" he thought. A Romance of Wastdale 2012-02-01T03:00:11.227Z Sometimes in the hazy distance might be detected a string of circular stains of a blacker colour than the rest--tarns in the moorland, home of the silver trout. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z Under the magic influence of his pen the hoary mountains, the dark tarns and trosachs of the Highlands gleam with supernal beauty. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z He contented himself, however, with the thought that there was mystery enough for the most exacting in the mere existence of this deep and brimming tarn on the crest of a granite peak. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z It faded, died away, was gone again, and a moment later yet another took its place: But this time the landscape was familiar, and he recognized the tarn. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z Vane rose early next morning, as he had been accustomed to do, and taking a towel with him made his way across dewy meadows and between tall hedgerows to the tarn. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z Fish leap gladly in stream and tarn, the lofty pines wave their dark plumes in the sunny air, and every wood and copse is filled with melody. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z It really was a wild tarn, placed in the pocket of the mountains that encircled it. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z Towards the foot of the tarn the gullies are much less severe. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z Best keep round the tarn and leave the Crag alone if there’s any mist about. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z We went out on the tarn every morning, even in the rain; but I suppose that’s not good for one’s complexion, though bothering about such things doesn’t seem to be worth while. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z He made his way unto the tarn, The night was dark and still and dank; The ripple chuckling neath the boat Laughed as he drew it to the bank. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z Every winter adds snow and ice to the peaks, and then when these slide down to milder areas, they melt and vanish into these rivers and tarns. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z Behind him lay a tarn, from which the beck flowed down, that had made the cleft in the mountain. Ovind A Story of Country Life in Norway 2011-10-13T02:00:43.280Z Yes, there’s some quite fair trout in the tarn, but it’s not much fished. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z They form an elevated plateau, bounded on all sides by steep and frequently inaccessible precipices, which enclose cooms and tarns. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z Many small lakes or tarns have been caused by the deposit of d�bris across a valley as by landslips or moraines. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z He is not seen; he was not born; he gathers His bodiless being from the treacherous tarn. King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? 2011-09-17T02:00:30.620Z "The sun shines bright, and the moss-brown tarn is more limpid than the running rill." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z A faint light, he saw, gleamed fitfully on the holm within the tarn. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z This tarn lies at the head of the Hag's Glen, at an elevation of 2,500 ft. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z To this small, black-brown tarn, pilgrims of every generation, for hundreds of years, have come. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z And not only men and women, but nature also: tarns and mountains, winds and the night, trees and stars—of these, too, Mr. Bottomley "knows what they don't say." King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? 2011-09-17T02:00:30.620Z In the dark tarn of my spirit, Love, the Morning Star is lit; And its halo, ever brightening, lightens into dawn in it. The Divine Vision and Other Poems 2011-09-02T02:00:18.933Z They left the tarn below them and hand in hand began to climb the final slope. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z The Silurian beds form considerable precipices upon the north, almost enclosing numerous tarns, from which interesting ascents may be made. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z Lake or pond, mere or tarn, this was a delightful refuge in sultry noon-tide. Salome 2011-08-20T02:00:12.970Z In the threatening obscurity the whole island seemed a mightier House of Usher, intricate of many buildings, cleft by Broadway in its middle, and ready to fall prostrate into the dark waters of the tarn. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z Her great grey eyes, like silent moorland tarns fringed with shadowy larches, were fixed on the handiwork of the Goddess who at that moment held the Ball. The Dales of Arcady 2011-08-16T02:00:42.740Z “Perhaps I may see them as I go by the tarn,” remarked the walker finally, making ready to go. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z Further south than the tarn again good rocks will be found. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z A silent tarn lies shimmering in a green hollow beneath, and over its marge constantly flit a pair of summer snipe. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z The mirror-surface of the moorland tarn lies lead-coloured and dull, wrinkled by the night-breeze, and its icy waters trickle in tiny rills over the bare plain and down to the valley. The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z The remainder of the island consists chiefly of low undulating ground, a mixture of pasture and morass, with many shallow freshwater tarns, and small streams running in the valleys. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z The landlord would talk for hours about the Crag, the tarn, the legends and the Romans, but concerning the two strangers he was uncommunicative. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z Meanwhile he took a hemp-comb and ran round to the other side of the tarn, which was so deep it had no bottom. Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales 2011-06-13T02:00:24.710Z The holy city sank into the earth; and in its place there rose a great lake, black as a mountain tarn unruffled by the wind. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z “Just beyond, along this road, is what the guide-book calls ‘a mountain tarn.’ The Corner House Girls on a Tour Where they went, what they saw, and what they found 2011-05-31T02:00:33.267Z A couple of miles to the southwest, and reached by a good trail, is Lake McArthur, another mountain tarn only a little less charming than Lake O'Hara. Among the Canadian Alps 2011-05-30T02:00:16.600Z They stood together by the door, looking out across the tarn in silence. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z One evening the troll was to come and fetch the princess, and she was dressed out in her best, and sat in a field out by the tarn, and wept and bewailed. Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales 2011-06-13T02:00:24.710Z Mr. Kean stopped at the banks of a lonesome tarn, filled with black water with a greasy looking slime over it. Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days 2011-05-27T02:00:15.860Z By-and-bye the bottom is reached, and before them there stands—what was totally concealed from any one skirting the wood on the outside—a spacious one-storied building near the head of the tarn. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z Before man disfigured the beauties of the land the lower hills, the river-valleys, and the borders of the numerous lakes and tarns were clothed with a more varied flora than the uplands. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z The ridge holds a number of little dark mountain tarns, and half a dozen good brooks tumble down its sides in small cascades. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z So the troll set off again, but 'squash' it said, and there lay the troll in the tarn, and Boots hacked at his eyes with the hemp-comb every time he got his head above water. Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales 2011-06-13T02:00:24.710Z Hast thou not seen thy father's woody sides reflected in the still mirror of his own tarns? A Syrup of the Bees 2011-04-23T02:00:04.300Z A deep, dark tarn glistened in the centre, looking like some long-extinct crater, that acted as a reservoir for the rain and melted snow from the surrounding slope. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z The fish will be closely monitored by the Environment Agency Fisheries officers on foot then helped transfer the fish to the cool waters of the tarn. Llamas move rare fish to cooler waters 2011-04-12T02:07:26Z He looked down at the deep black tarn. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z His clothes were wet; the water still dripped from them, and fell into the hidden tarn beneath in hollow drops. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z In the midst of all this glittering array, lay the little tarn, shining, too, but with the gleam of plated glass—a mirror in its framework of fretted gild. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z Some miner, perhaps, who extracted ore from the neighbouring mountains, had found here a convenient smelting-place in proximity to the tarn. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z "Just as you wish," cried the King, "but why don't you wear the diamonds that I found for you in the tarn, which Lancelot won for you at the jousts?" Tales from Tennyson 2011-03-19T02:00:10.793Z His clothes were wet; the water still dripped from them, and fell at intervals into the hidden tarn beneath in hollow drops. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z The light crept into his prison-house, and he looked down at the deep black tarn beneath him. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z She looked westward, and her memory was full of interminable streaming rapids, wastes of ice-striated rocks, tiresome struggles through woods and wild, wide stretches of tundra and tarn, trackless and treeless, infinitely desolate. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Vas I a mans I could say tarn! A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z "See I lakes, or eyes?" cried Lucy, her own gazing down into his soul, as two stars gaze down into a tarn. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z Hollyhocks were blooming in the backyard near the barn, Proud as rhododendrons by a regal mountain tarn, Purple, white and yellow, blue and velvet red— Humble little cottage, but a royal flower bed. The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z This tarn, which by old writers was called the Dead Sea from the lifeless appearance of its waters, lies on an elevated plateau in a dreary sad-coloured region. Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z Across the smooth wind-swept ice of the open tarns they would find a growth of ice flowers, six-rayed and complicated, more abundant and more beautiful than the Alpine-524- summer flowers. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z With the sword of his father Siegfried goes forth and destroys the giant and then appears wearing the glittering tarn helmet, the invincible armor and the magic ring. The Camp Fire Girls Across the Seas A young lady, stately and tall, with a pale, proud face, deep, dark eyes, solemn, shining, fathomless, like mountain tarns; floating dark ringlets and a statuesque sort of beauty that was perfect in its way. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir He looked down into Manuela's black eyes that hid emotion as a stone is hidden at the bottom of a mountain tarn. The Firebrand And, obedient to the advice, he ran the boat swiftly along till she entered a small creek, so sheltered by the highlands that the water within was still as a mountain tarn. The Fortunes Of Glencore He catches a few trout sometimes in the tarns above. Ayala's Angel No more does Coleridge's dim eye look down into the dim tarn, heavy laden, too, under the advancing thunder-storm. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. The sleeping tarn is dark Below the wooded hill. Later Poems We were close to the lake country, on the borders of that mountain district where crag and moorland, pine-wood and tarn combine to make some of the most glorious scenery in the British Isles. The Fortunes of Philippa A School Story There was scarcely room in the tarn for the whole herd, and before they retired, the bright and sparkling waters had become a turbid and discoloured flood. Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa Sir Thomas had a way,—a merit shall we call it or a fault?—of pouring out his wealth upon the family as though it were water running in perpetuity from a mountain tarn. Ayala's Angel The leaping fish pleases him, because its “cheer” in the lonely tarn is of praise. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. I wish my travelling countrymen—and what land tarns ont such myriads of wanderers?—would betake themselves, in their summer rambles, to the Tyrol, rather than Switzerland. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) There are, besides, numerous mountain tarns of small size, most of them in hollows barred by the glacial drift which covers a great part of the district. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" “Er—Her eyes are grey—” “Grey as a mountain tarn—” Grizel rolled her own eyes to the ceiling. An Unknown Lover Mona realised that her tarn had indeed come—for good and for ill, for once and for ever. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance Who do you think she tarns out to be? One Of Them You'll just go quietly to work and see all clear, and then tarn to and loaf about in the shadows. A Marriage at Sea "No human being," Noël said, "knows half the treasures hidden in this dark tarn." The Wouldbegoods Then I hid me close to the reedy tarn, Where the Mammoth came to drink;— Through brawn and bone I drave the stone, And slew him upon the brink. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 Horn of a new moon golden 'mid gold, Broken, fluted in the tarn's close skies; Shattered and beaten, wave-like and cold, Crisper my love's locks fold on fold, Cooler and brighter where dreaming she lies! Blooms of the Berry And the dead heron floats away before small winds and waves into the middle of the tarn. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Beneath that faultless forehead burned unusually large eyes, deep as mountain tarns, and of that pure bluish gray that tolerates no hint of green or yellow rays. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part A black, reed-grown tarn at the foot of the Abbey gleamed and quivered like a fair silver shield. A Monk of Cruta Whairikauri, whose highest point reaches about 1000 ft., is remarkable for the number of lakes and tarns it contains, and for the extensive bogs which cover the surface of nearly the whole of the uplands. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" He speaks of it as a "tarn", but we cannot believe he would have it so stagnant a thing as that name implies. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 To look into them was like coming suddenly through dusky woods to a lonely mountain tarn, lying fathomless and icy beneath a moonlit sky. Tante They tramped ahead through a thicket of brush, and came suddenly out on a blue tarn. Pioneers of the Pacific Coast A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters A bare Northumbrian moor, with its tumbled masses of grey rock, its low-hanging, misty clouds and silent tarns, stretched away before his eyes. A Monk of Cruta Beyond the land of living men, it seemed, an owl hooted, and a belated dove called and called like a moaning spirit wandering in some lost tarn of the Styx. Dwellers in the Hills Beyond these, a few weatherbeaten buildings, forming a rude quadrangle pierced by one tall archway, stood beside a tarn that winked like polished steel. Thurston of Orchard Valley They sped past a tarn where swans floated among the colored reflections of ancient trees, and then Dryholm broke upon their view across its wide lawn. Partners of the Out-Trail It will be remembered that M'Dougall had heard of another mountain tarn. Pioneers of the Pacific Coast A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters When she had moved away, Challoner showed Millicent a picture of grey hills and a sullen tarn, half revealed between folds of rolling vapour, and the girl was stirred to keen appreciation. Blake's Burden One night it chanced a tarn, Secreted high 'mid cold and moonless hills, Bursting its bank down burst. Legends of the Saxon Saints There was no moon, but the night was luminous, for the stars twinkled with a windy glitter that was flung back by a neighboring tarn. Thurston of Orchard Valley A row of dahlias close by hung their heads after a night's frost, a gardener was sweeping dead leaves from the grass, and the beeches round the tarn were nearly bare. Partners of the Out-Trail Ward, who was now keenly sympathetic, put her on his own horse and walked beside her while they slowly crawled down into the small valley, which held a deep and grassy tarn. They of the High Trails Perhaps it's because I know the tarn I like the picture so much, but it makes one realize the rugged grandeur and melancholy charm of the place. Blake's Burden She was in the midst of a description of one of their walking expeditions—an attempt to reach a lovely tarn in the heart of the hills. Lover or Friend After we had passed the tarn the glen became less interesting, or rather the mountains, from the manner in which they are looked at; but again, a little higher up, they resume their grandeur. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 See, this comes from the wet lands on the hither side of the tarn—— Euterpe. Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy He has gone like a stone dropped into a bottomless tarn. The Master Mummer So do the little emerald tarns lie like saucers full of sky and trees in pockets of the Alps. Highways and Byways in Surrey In the course of time evasion has come to appear to him the best line to pursue, and he has sunk like a stone into a slough of compromise, a tarn of apathy. In the Tail of the Peacock Lonely tarns lie under the black brows of the precipice; one feels chilly, and a little afraid. The Dop Doctor I wandered through the woods, down the glen, along the sea-shore, up the side of the tarn and of the marsh, but I could think of nothing. Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy This solitary tarn was far from being silent. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West With your own eyes seen how Elsa drowned her brother in the tarn? The Wagnerian Romances I made this discovery in a spinney, or copse, near a small tarn some half mile to the eastward of Fernbridge's precincts. Fibble, D.D. This little tarn, with its back-ground of dark rocks interspersed with patches of snow, might strongly remind the Alpine traveller of the lake near the Hospice of the Grimsel. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Deeper than hunter's trail hath gone Glimmers the tarn where the wild deer drink; And fearless and free comes the gentle fawn, To peep at herself o'er the grassy brink. Conservation Reader The first line I gave you was easy Byron—almost shallow Byron—these are of the man in his depth, and you will not fathom them, like a tarn,—nor in a hurry. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing One morning he came home in a great state of excitement, and made me go with him to look at some ancient remains he had found at the bottom of a dried-up tarn. Werwolves Not a ripple flowed into this still tarn from the great stream of the world that rushed and surged and swelled with the clangor of a million voices around its incrusted sides. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time A half-moon hung above a ridge of dark fir wood, a tarn gleamed below, and here and there down a shadowy hollow there was a sparkle of running water. The Long Portage In late September I spread my observation chair at the very edge of one of the dark tarns and watched the life on the leaves. Edge of the Jungle In the pale, delicately expanding light Joan’s face gleamed between its black coils of hair with eyes like enchanted tarns. The Branding Iron "Thank you," he cried, and with a swift whirring of wings two grouse rose near by and shot like brown streaks over the silver tarn. Mufti Fox cavern, waterfall, and a dark tarn, besides catching rats with the dog; he could not stand all that. Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home Birk Water was a lovely little mountain tarn lying under the shadow of Fox Fell, a smooth, grassy eminence down which hurried a noisy stream. A harum-scarum schoolgirl The hill is a long one, the cliffs of the mountain pass exceedingly picturesque, and the black tarn under the beetling crags suggestive of Poe's 'House of Usher.' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The weather was clear, with thin ice coursing the dark waters of the mountain tarns, and now and again slight snowfalls that made the forest gleam and glisten in the moonlight like fairyland. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands The rill, Thou haply mayst delight in, will I fill With fairy fishes from the mountain tarn, And thou shall feed them from the squirrel's barn. Endymion A Poetic Romance They then followed the course of the rivulet for about a quarter of a mile to where it emptied itself into the tarn or little lake of which Harry had spoken. Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home In the centre of this spot lies a clear, still lake, or tarn, not more than a hundred yards in diameter. Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication On the 18th of June they first fell in with icebergs, flying amid which were numberless petrels, kittiwakes, tarns, and other winged inhabitants of the northern regions. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold Through this rich pasture Erica waded till she reached the tarn which fed the stream that gambolled down the ravine. Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow" But on the fiat, warm rock overhanging the tarn—my special throne—lay some withering wild-flowers and a book! Who Was She? From "The Atlantic Monthly" for September, 1874 He saw the sudden gleam Of a tarn in the swarthy moorland; Or perhaps the whole was a dream. The Posy Ring A Book of Verse for Children Up to this elevated tarn, among the hoary mountain peaks, the Sudberry Family struggled one hot, sunny, lovely forenoon. Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication It was of a mountain tarn lying quiet in the sun. The Dragon Painter They walked quietly on till the tarn was left some way behind. Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow" Secret The land he inhabits; dark, wolf-haunted ways Of the windy hillside, by the treacherous tarn; Or where, covered up in its mist, the hill stream Downward flows.” A Book of Myths The hill itself, with days of eager hunting after the red-deer, brought not enough distraction, and to stand by the mountain tarns and fish the dark trout was to hold a lonely carnival with discontent. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Mr Sudberry had, for some time past, talked of a long walking excursion with the whole family to a certain small loch or tarn among the hills. Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication I said: "You are a tarn fool, and you will be zorry." Despair's Last Journey Rolf could not resist the impulse to send his heavy stone into the middle of the tarn, to see the effect upon the men below. Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow" Alone, in contemplation lost, I stood upon a castled height, Dark-beetling o'er a lurid tarn That glassed the brow of night. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Whatever tarn cap the one had worn during the past three days, however bewildering had been his inaction, his reputation held. The Long Roll While thus philosophically engaged, he observed that fish were rising in the tarn. Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication From each black tarn I looked to see a scaly reptile rise, from every fearsome cave a corby emerge. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance How could these guilty and superstitious men doubt that it was Rolf’s spectre which, rising through the centre of the tarn, had caused the late commotion in its waters? Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow" The first line I gave you was easy Byron—almost shallow Byron—these are of the man in his depth, and you will not fathom them, like a tarn—nor in a hurry. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature Sedge and lilies grow by this tarn so singularly situated. The Lone Ranche That afternoon by the tarn, for example, when she had summoned courage to confess her scheme, and he had lain prone on the grass, helpless and shaken with laughter! Big Game A Story for Girls A mountain tarn, with waters still and blue, Here nestles, open to the heavens whence It seemingly derives its azure hue. The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic He could not see his own eye, but he imagined and hoped that it was cold and forbidding, like the surface of some bottomless mountain tarn. The Girl on the Boat The landscape for miles around stood out with startling clearness in the moonshine, and I stopped every now and then to drink in the beauties of the glittering mountain-ranges and silent, glimmering tarns. Scottish Ghost Stories Even now, except for a few small "pockets" of water not unlike the hill tarns in the North of England, the bed was for all practical purposes dry. With Our Army in Palestine “Why do you avoid me?” he demanded of her plumply, the next morning, when, after several unsuccessful attempts, he ran her to earth by the side of the tarn. Big Game A Story for Girls Here, has this little tarn pre-eminence, For 'mid such mighty works appearing less, It must attract us by its littleness. The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic The moor is crossed, and you prepare to scale the mountain in front, for you imagine the torrent by your side flows from a tarn in yonder cove, and forms that series of waterfalls. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 The mountain tarn, so lone and cold, The delicate shadow no more shall hold; The fleetness has died in each rigid limb, And never shall dun hound follow him! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Her melancholy dark eyes, deep and sombre as mountain tarns, wandered from the brother's handsome face to the beautiful one of the sister. The Castle Of The Shadows Margot took the peppermint, and sucked it with frank enjoyment the while she sat by the tarn reading her letters. Big Game A Story for Girls I think you kids had better tarn in now; it's getting late. Roy Blakely, Pathfinder A clear tarn had a few minutes before glittered with moonbeams, but now it had disappeared. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 He found himself in a wild and barren wilderness of savage rocks, with a small black tarn lying at his feet, which just caught the glimmer of the setting sun on its lurid surface. Cobwebs and Cables Wonderful eyes he had, not like to other men's; with a depth and yet a light in them, as when the June sun shines back reflected from the blackness of a mountain tarn. A Book of Quaker Saints Not one single one of them to read in the house—come and sit on a stone by the tarn, and we’ll suck peppermints and read ’em together. Big Game A Story for Girls Aren't they all as crystal as the depths of mountain tarns, or that amethystine colour of the sky behind the clear profiles of high peaks? Set in Silver A white middy blouse, short white skirt and a white tarn, worn by a slender girl, moved forward to meet him. Curlie Carson Listens In Here and there in deep sunken hollows lay small tarns, black as night, and guilty looking, with precipices overhanging them fringed with pointed pine-trees, which sought in vain to mirror themselves in those pitch-dark waters. Cobwebs and Cables The country is generally undulating and fertile, with occasional mountain ranges, of which the Comeraghs are rendered especially interesting and picturesque by the deep "cooms," embosoming tarns, which give them their name. The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway He pointed to a fair-haired child wading by the side of the tarn. Big Game A Story for Girls Their craft lay as motionless as a painted ship, in the middle of a placid pool black as a highland tarn. Under the Great Bear It was a cove, a huge recess That keeps, till June, December's snow; A lofty precipice in front, A silent tarn below. The Dog's Book of Verse Villages sparsely distributed along the mountain path have water trained to them in bamboo conduits from tarns on the hillside. An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma And when he had put on the borrowed ring he had drawn her eyes up to the blue tarn of his own. Robin On hot days she would wade in the cool grey tarn... Big Game A Story for Girls He haunted waterfalls and fells and rocky heights and lonely tarns, but he was not averse to footpaths and highways, and the rustic, half-domesticated nature of rural England. The Last Harvest "Where have you been?" she cried, in a rasping voice, making an effort to tarn in her bed as the girl entered. A Cardinal Sin Mr. Barrett had then the peculiarity in his manner of sounding certain vowels, which he still retains—always pronouncing the word "turn," for instance, as if it were written "tarn." Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men He looked down on the still surface of tarn, or pool, or fountain, and saw, sinking downwards, another world, another sky, losing themselves in mystery. Nature Mysticism Starting under such promising auspices, brother and sister merrily continued their way along the winding road which skirted the border of the tarn. Big Game A Story for Girls Glaciers lay along the mountain tarns, icy green from the silt of the glacier grinding over rock; and the river was hemmed in by shadowy ca�ons with roaring cascades that compelled frequent portage. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark It was wider than he had thought—indeed, he had been mistaken; it was a great tarn on the mountain-side! The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural Each guide has his tarn of one day, and no man can pass a guide on duty without subjecting himself to a fine of 5 shillings. The Extermination of the American Bison The mountain tarn, alone with the sky, has a charm that is all its own. Nature Mysticism Gradually the anger passed out of the face of William Douglas as he listened to his sister's prattle, like the vapours from the surface of a hill tarn when the sun rises in his strength. The Black Douglas Till one night when the sea fog wrapped a shroud Round spar and spire and tarn and tree, Her soul went up on that lifted cloud From this sad old house by the sea. The Haunted Hour An Anthology There were wooded banks and hollows just round it; but farther afield the chill, bare moorland stretched away toward the sea, broken here and there by sullen sedgy tarns. Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' The shepherds drove their flocks to moorlands, and marsh and tarn had their reeds invaded by the scythe to supply the cattle with food. Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland Surely just beyond those summits where the melancholy sky touched the melancholy hills, one would come upon the "dank tarn of Auber" and the "ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir." The River and I It made a dark wedge between two folds of moorland, its tree-tops level with the piled boulders on the northern side, like a deeply green tarn lapping the edge of some rocky shore. Secret Bread Black rifts and whirlpools and dead tarns within me, opening up now and again, lifted as by a trembling of the earth, coming up from the past! Foes Full of that Christian zeal, so 'apt to tarn sour,' these men lived like the hermit Honorius, 'in hopes of gaining heaven by making earth a hell.' An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles A lofty precipice in front, A silent tarn below! Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library His consciousness of God was not something wholly new; He was not "a lonely mountain tarn unvisited by any stream," but received into His soul the great river of a nation's spiritual life. Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking "It makes us almost as invisible as the 'tarn cap' we read of in German fairy tales," said Mrs. Clifford, tucking her brown veil under her chin. Dotty Dimple Out West Down below them they saw the dark little tarn, the Kelpie's Pool. Foes But the dull red lamplight lit duskily up the folds of her robe, her golden ornaments, and the black tarns, her eyes. Idolatry A Romance So he dropped Stephen, and dropped Julius; and began to talk about the fish in the becks and tarns, and the new breed of sheep he was trying in the lower "walks." The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance This is a mountain tarn, varying in size as the season is wet or dry, but never apparently more than about seven miles long, by five or six broad. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. The dank tarns and funereal woodlands of his landscapes, or at least the strong suggestion of them, may all be found here, and the scene of The Goldbug is definitely laid on Sullivan's Island. Carolina Chansons Legends of the Low Country Ian was yet out in the middle ring of the tarn. Foes The forfeit is held over them, and each of them stoops in tarn. The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three Clinton consequently left his horse in the care of two soldiers on a bit of green meadow by the side of Ahadarra Lough—a small tarn or mountain lake about two hundred yards in diameter. The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two Besides these lakes, there were contained within the limits of the Empire a number of petty tarns, which do not merit particular description. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. "Neither you nor yours desarve it at my hands; but for all that, I am here to do you a good tarn." Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two By the tarn, boys," said he, "it's Finnerty himself, disguised like a farmer. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One For, though overhung by no cliffs or lofty pines, it is far more the haunt of eagles, of both the bald and the gray species, than most tarns possessing those appendages of the romantic. Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 The voice of Nature breathes in every song And we may read therein thy features kind As in some tarn that nestles ’neath thy hills. Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century He lighted it again and continued: "Writers who seek to benefit the poor of ten injure them—teach them a dissatisfaction which in its tarn brings a sort of reprisal on the part of capital." The Colossus A Novel The first and finest is the trip to the Lac de Gaube, a high mountain tarn at the very foot of the Vignemale. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees Seen under such conditions, the Serpentine put off the cheerful vulgarity of its everyday aspect, and exercised over the spirit of the watcher the same fascination as a mountain tarn or some deep, quick-flowing stream. Father Stafford "The dark tarn of Auber in the misty mid region of Weir!" The Altar Steps Subtly and slowly, released from some deep, central tarn of his most secret self, a vapour of distaste and dislike began to darken the cells of clear thought. Lewis Rand The distinctive Norse names fell, tarn and force do not occur at all, while thorpe and toft, which are as distinctively Danish, are confined almost exclusively to this section. Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch The path slopes up again, passes a dejected little mountain tarn, and another half hour brings us to the final cone, the summit just overhead. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees Five minutes later the brothers sat under the shadow of oaks and beeches at the edge of a little tarn set in fine foliage. Children of the Mist She plans a disappearance, and leaves some of her belongings on the edge of a bottomless tarn. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 21, 1917 Challoner and the girl moved away down the gallery, and he showed her a large painting of gray hills and a sullen tarn, half revealed between folds of rolling vapor. The Intriguers They, however, shot a brace of partridges in a turnip field, a widgeon that rose from a reedy tarn, and a woodcock that sprang out of a holly thicket in a bog. Carmen's Messenger One sunshiny day the outlaws came to this tarn to fish. Invisible Links There was no moon, no star in heaven; yet over this desolate tarn hovered a pale radiance that ceased again where the edge of its waves lapped the further bank of peat. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales The dreary house with its vacant, eye-like windows reflected at the outset in the dark, unruffled tarn, disappears for ever beneath its surface. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance Perhaps it's because I know the tarn that I like the picture so much; but it makes one realize the rugged grandeur and the melancholy charm of the place. The Intriguers Their cry of horror aroused Hrothgar, who, on investigating, discovered gigantic footsteps leading straight from the hall to the sluggish waters of a mountain tarn, above which a phosphorescent light always hovered. The Book of the Epic He dreamed that he had crept up on the big pine root in the middle of the dark tarn, but the pine swayed and rocked so that sometimes he was quite under water. Invisible Links It was the soul of Philip Cardinnock that drew me towards the tarn and the soul of Samuel Wraxall that resisted. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales He constantly speaks of things he wants to do 'before I tarn my toes up to the daisies.' Shandygaff His was the moor and the tarn, the recess in the mountain, the woodland Scatter'd with trees far and wide, trees never too solemn or lofty, Never entangled with plants overrunning the villager's foot-path. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850 The younger men saw that her lips were red and her eyes had the depth of a mountain tarn. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 On the tarn's fourth side the cliff sank down. Invisible Links They found me, next morning, lying on the brink of the tarn, and carried me back to the inn. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales When the tide rose the waters raged and thundered all around the rock, but when it sank again the still, deep pool remained, unruffled as a mountain tarn and as full of mystery. The Tidal Wave and Other Stories Horrible shapeless monsters, with streaming manes, such as are said to sometimes appear in mountain tarns, writhed and wallowed and seized their prey in the fens and marshes. Weird Tales from Northern Seas Find myself suddenly shot into a mountain tarn. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 1, 1891 She then placed me in that same crevice overlooking the tarn whence Winnie had come to me on that morning. Aylwin I must have stood at least a minute on the brink before I descried a black object floating at the far end of the tarn. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales In winter, when the tarn was covered with jetty glossy ice, there were jovial scenes whereof the jollity was shared by a happy few. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour The first mirrors, you must remember, were the forest pools and mountain tarns. Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir The tarn was at least two miles away, a stiff climb over difficult moor. A Great Success There was in the tones, too, the perpetual doubt of one from whom anything might be hidden by silence, or by the least tarn of words. In the Palace of the King A Love Story of Old Madrid There is the Poe story of The Fall of the House of Usher, where with the death of the last heir the castle falls crumbling into the tarn. The Art of the Moving Picture These occurred almost every afternoon, and turned the camp into a tarn, and the trails into torrents and quagmires. The Rough Riders As the antlered stag, pursued by men and hounds, swims swiftly over the mountain tarn to the safety of crag and fell, so swam Earl Roderic before the fury of the men of Bute. The Thirsty Sword She put down her knitting, and her wide, sad eyes followed the clouds as they covered the purple breast of the Langdales, which rose in threatening, thunder light, beyond the steely tarn in front. Missing For there's no sequestered grot, Lone mountain tarn, or isle forgot, But Justice, journeying in the sphere, Daily stoops to harbor there. Poems Household Edition Slowly toiling up the stony, sun-dried bed of the tarn came Pepin the dwarf, and alongside him, showing unusual signs of animation—he had scented brother bears—came Antoine. The Rising of the Red Man A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment of looking down within the tarn had been to deepen the first singular impression. Short-Stories In about half an hour he reached a small lake or tarn, as it is called in the north, which appeared to be the source of the stream. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 557, July 14, 1832 Presently they turned into a side lane skirting the tarn, from which the cottage and its approaches could be seen, at a distance. Missing I knew of the chopping, and where the path led up to it, and I thought you would tarn back to the old road, and might enter the woods, on the other side. Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio Molded Rice or Snow Balls.—Steam a pint of well-cleaned rice until tender, as directed on page 99, and tarn Into cups previously wet in cold water, to mold. Science in the Kitchen. In front of the bed, under the half-drawn curtains, the floor was a tarn of blood. Eastern Shame Girl Though I should sit By some tarn in thy hills, Using its ink As the spirit wills To write of Earth's wonders, Its live, willed things, Flit would the ages On soundless wings. Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume I. They're walking round the other side of the tarn and will join us at the top of Red Bank. Missing The tarn is on the upland moor, Where not a leaf doth grow; And through the mountain gashes, The merry mill stream dashes Down to the sea below. The Illustrated London Reading Book Once we passed a black and silent tarn, with leaden waves lapping among the stones. The Silent Isle But on the flat, warm rock overhanging the tarn—my special throne—lay some withering wild-flowers, and a book! Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 Ere unto Z My pen drew nigh; Leviathan told, And the honey-fly: And still would remain My wit to try My worn reeds broken, The dark tarn dry, All words forgotten— Thou, Lord, and I. Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume I. The stars came out, and a light easterly wind sprang up, sending ripples across the tarn, and stirring last year's leaves among the new grass. Missing I expected to find the water all in tumult; but no, it had the dark, solemn stillness of the mountain tarn. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine The very spirit of the moorland, lake, brook, tarn, ghyll, and ridge breathes from his prose poetry: and well it might. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Ripogenus is a tarn, a lovely oval tarn, within a rim of forest and hill; and there behold, O gioja! at its eastern end, stooping forward and filling the sphere, was Katahdin, large and alone. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 In her mind she saw darkly a deep cold tarn, its face hidden by fog and mist. The Tarn of Eternity Hold your tongue when you hear me speak," commanded the chieftain, loftily; "we will lie in wait at the ford, between the two tarns, and capture the travellers who pass that way. Boyhood in Norway Far up the stream rose the grim hills which hem the mosses and tarns of that tableland, whence flow the greater waters of the countryside. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies You are sitting, perhaps, in your coracle, upon some mountain tarn, waiting for a wind, and waiting in vain. Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore There seemed no road to it from anywhere, and to increase the desolation the waves of a tarn lapped on their grey granite beach half a mile away. The Thirty-Nine Steps There, by the tarn, the tragedy would end. The Tarn of Eternity A shepherd found his body in a tarn at daybreak. The White People My book—except when I was thinking of the tarn and that old man I so hated—was Miss Brandon's exquisite and mysterious face. Wylder's Hand They could see the fells tower darkly against the soft sky, and a tarn that lay in the blackness of the valley beneath them was revealed by its pale gleam. Vane of the Timberlands A tarn, the tint of burned topaz, lies coldly and sadly between stony slopes whereon a few tufts of fern and heather grow here and there. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 And what was the secret of the tarn? The Tarn of Eternity A rude hut of native logs it was, set in this highland glen beside a tarn. Ruggles of Red Gap He glanced aside at the tarn where I had seen the phantom, and by which their path now led them—'You remember Parnell's pretty image? Wylder's Hand Vane rose early the next morning, as he had been accustomed to do, and taking a towel he made his way across dewy meadows and between tall hedgerows to the tarn. Vane of the Timberlands Half a league higher is a second tarn, which appears still more dismal in the rising mist. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 And tarns, deep and cold, bottomless pits of murky water. The Tarn of Eternity When we had done a fairish number of streets, both of shops and villas, we drove out a winding roadway along a tarn to the country club. Ruggles of Red Gap This tarn maybe—and with the thought the water looked blacker—and a deeper and colder shadow gathered over the ominous hollow in which I stood, and the rustling in the withered leaves sounded angrily. Wylder's Hand Beyond it, the tarn shone dazzlingly, and in the distance ranks of rugged fells towered, dim and faintly blue. Vane of the Timberlands I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment, that of looking down within the tarn, had been to deepen the first singular impression. Selections from Poe And in some few favored spots, dark grottoes and murky tarns together. The Tarn of Eternity The fields have the effect of a little Alpine tarn of bright green. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I He was suspected of having murdered his own son, at the edge of a tarn in the park. Wylder's Hand In the afternoon, however, at Mrs. Chisholm's suggestion, he and Carroll set out with the girls for a hill beyond the tarn. Vane of the Timberlands Ask the sea At midnight, when the crisp slope waves After a tempest, rib and fret The broadimbasèd beach, why he Slumbers not like a mountain tarn? The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson They turned back, led once more to the tarn. The Tarn of Eternity My habits of thinking and feeling, have not hitherto inclined me to personify commerce in any such shape, so as to tempt me to tarn pagan, and offer vows to the goddess of our isle. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey This man's chief amusement was fishing on the wild and uneven banks of the River Eden, and up the different streams and tarns among the mountains. Literary Remains, Volume 1 Here and there white limestone ridges flung back the light, and the tarn gleamed like molten silver when a faint puff of wind traced a dark blue smear athwart its surface. Vane of the Timberlands Till one night, when the sea-fog wrapped a shroud Round spar and spire and tarn and tree, Her soul went up on that lifted cloud From this sad old house by the sea. East and West Poems What manner of creature dwells in yonder tarn. The Tarn of Eternity Up bobbed the black shaven pate out of the creek, much as Kit had often seen the head of a coot bob up in one of the moorland tarns of his own Northumberland. The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea David had sufficiently verified the fact that the tarn did indeed bear this name in the modern guide-book parlance of the district. The History of David Grieve I pulled them in the tarn—where it flows out into the fiord. Little Eyolf And a fourth source on the mountain, a tarn below its summit, is the source of Rheidol, which has a short but adventurous life like Achilles. First and Last You shall meet with it by the tarn, in good time. The Tarn of Eternity In his front the lonely man Saw approach the hostile van: Near him on the moor a tarn; On a knoll a wattled barn. Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses Here it was; I know the green there this side of the tarn. Early Plays — Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans In grief she turned;And as on blackening tarn gust follows gust,Again came wail on wail. The Legends of Saint Patrick Who that has any knowledge of the mountains cannot recall the effect of these solitary tarns, like well-eyes in the wilderness, gleaming in the sunshine, dark in the gloom? Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 Startled, the monster fell, rolled over and quickly slipped into the frigid waters of the tarn. The Tarn of Eternity Through that charmful circle of the outer isles, with their slumbrous tarns, and meres, and treeless solitudes they went. A Daughter of Fife Our people must spread about and search all around the tarn;—she shall come forth and then—woe upon her! no mercy or pity is there in my soul. Early Plays — Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans Turn to the left, above the tarn, and into the great Spanish road from Bayonne to the frontier at what was lately ‘La Negresse,’ but is now a gay railway station. Prose Idylls, New and Old He reached the foot of that enormous slope, and hurried over rocky ways, till he stopped at the top of a precipice, full six hundred feet above the lonely tarn of Idwal. Two Years Ago, Volume II. I would end you now, if it were not that the fates have written, and it is by the tarn you shall meet your destiny. The Tarn of Eternity Isak drives on till he comes to a tarn, a bit of a pool on the moor, and there he pulls up. Growth of the Soil In the center of the background a quiet mountain tarn; on the left side a rocky cliff which drops straight down to the water. Early Plays — Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans Where that station is, was another tarn, now drained. Prose Idylls, New and Old The evening was calm and one side of the placid tarn glittered in the light; the other was dark, and soft blue shadows covered the fells behind. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" Dreams of he who dwelled in the deep tarn. The Tarn of Eternity North of Sellanraa there was a little tarn, a mere puddle, no bigger than an aquarium. Growth of the Soil The moon on the edge of the tarn did play; It seemed to laugh as it vanished away In the rolling billows so bright! Early Plays — Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans In one spot only in Yorkshire, as far as I know, do our large chalk flies kill: namely, in the lofty limestone tarn of Malham. Prose Idylls, New and Old The tarn glimmered with faint reflections from the west, but thin mist drifted across the pastures, and the hills rose, vague and black, against the sky, in which a half moon shone. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" From the tarn's brink to his resting place he saw footprints. The Tarn of Eternity One evening Inger stood there listening for the cowbells; all was dead about her, she heard nothing, and then came a song from the tarn. Growth of the Soil Is it owing to this absence of any ice-action that there are no lakes, not even a tarn, in the northern mountains? At Last Then the little lakes were lovely, and occasionally we came to a tarn or pond, and exceedingly small waterfalls were rushing about everywhere, without any apparent object in view, but evidently looking for something. Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals Now and then a shadow sped across the tarn, darkening the ripples that sparkled like silver when the cloud drove on. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" He gazed at Beowulf, back at the tarn. The Tarn of Eternity A swamp stretching endlessly on either hand, and back from the icy flood as far as eye could see, broken only by sloughs and an occasional ice-rimmed tarn. The Magnetic North The whole number in the Sierra can hardly be less than fifteen hundred, not counting the smaller pools and tarns, which are innumerable. The Mountains of California A single faint star is visible within the opening, producing a curious effect upon the sensitive spectator, like the sight of a tiny islet in the midst of a black, motionless, waveless tarn. Curiosities of the Sky Boggy pasture and stony cornfields ran back from the tarn. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" Demo gazed into the still water of the tarn, touched its surface with his hand. The Tarn of Eternity They were blue like the clear water in a tarn when the sun shines on it and they were still laughing as his mouth was. The Head of the House of Coombe Then are these sparkling tarns filled and buried, leaving not a hint of their existence. The Mountains of California This mountain-lake, or tarn, as it is called in some countries, was a deep basin of about a mile in circumference, but rather oblong than circular. The Betrothed The light of the setting sun streamed in through the long casement window which commanded the shining tarn and the woods that melted into shadow at the mouth of the dale. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" Was this then the tarn of which he had been forewarned? The Tarn of Eternity A big boy in Highland kilts and bonnet and sporan was standing by her, and she found herself staring into a pair of handsome deep blue eyes, blue like the waters of a hillside tarn. The Head of the House of Coombe It occupied a small rocky islet in a mountain lake, or tarn, as such a piece of water is called in Westmoreland. The Monastery September rains after a dry summer washed the air and filled the tarns and becks. More Pages from a Journal The ice on the tarn was covered, so that skating was impossible, and Thorn, feeling the need for amusement, had a few sledges made. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" Without a word he stood, shook his head, staggered to the brink of the tarn. The Tarn of Eternity At the summit are the two usual grim little stone taverns, the steel-blue tarn, the snow-white peaks, the pause in the cold sunshine. Italian Hours It is different in the north, for instance, where the streams have a background of moors, mountains, tarns, and lakes. The Life of the Fields Hundreds of tarns and lakes are visible along the plateau-like ridge which extends throughout the length of the island. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 But why did her eyes tarn so often and so wistfully up to the tall great-coated form before her? From Jest to Earnest Demo spoke now, glancing at the tarn in apprehension. The Tarn of Eternity Struck with you when we first met—" "Nay, no more of that, but let us follow these windings; they lead us to the tarn. Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky So Laeg made ready the chariot and drove to the tarn. AE in the Irish Theosophist The tarns are, for the most part, shallow with hard stony bottoms. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 About nine o'clock I found a little bayou in the dark woods, and moored my boat to a snag which protruded its head above the still waters of the tarn. Four Months in a Sneak-Box A fog rose from the cold surface of the tarn, and driven by a light breeze, drifted onto the shore. The Tarn of Eternity The tarn, like the dark mysterious dwelling of an Undine, was spread out before them with the smoothness of glass, though untransparent, and shining beneath their eyes like a vast basin of the richest jet. Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky It is the scene that affects us with dread and horror; we have no peace until we see the house swallowed up by the tarn, and have fled out of sight of the tarn itself. Short Stories for English Courses Her velvet tarn sat jauntily on those wonderful yellow curls, and her modern cape flew gracefully out, just showing the least fold of her best chiffon blouse. The Girl Scout Pioneers or Winning the First B. C. We paid our last visit to the nests of the albatrosses, which were situated on a little undulating plateau above the cave amid tussocks, snow-patches, and little frozen tarns. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition The green blood blended with the dark water of the tarn. The Tarn of Eternity The horses took their last drink at the little sweet-watered tarn, and we moved away for our new home to the south. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Shirley wore an angora tarn, leaf green sweater and big plaid golf skirt just then. Jane Allen, Junior "Why, till the next tarn of tide,—course." Lost in the Fog A few patches of very rough, tussocky land, dotted with little tarns, lay between the glaciers along the foot of the mountains, which were heavily scarred with scree-slopes. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition The once calm tarn was now an ocean of waves and froth, and thunder sound above it. The Tarn of Eternity We now had our former tracks to return upon to the tarn. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, His muscles were rippling smoothly and sleekly under his spare, healthy flesh—he had an absurd desire to bound along the street, to run dodging among trees, to tarn "cart-wheels" over soft grass. Flappers and Philosophers A mountain torrent roared by the wayside, and the course they had marked upon the map showed that they must follow this stream for some miles up to the tarn where it originated. The Odd Women The Chinese are bribed to carry their ova from province to province in jars or in hollow reeds, or the water-birds to transport them to the mountain tarns and interior lakes. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Bemused she looked at the now placid surface of the tarn. The Tarn of Eternity The water in the tarn had evidently shrunk. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, It was so beautiful and so still that the children stood a moment among the rocks where the tarn emptied itself into the mountain stream to look at it. The Scotch Twins Thus at ease in mind they crossed the bridge at the foot of the tarn, and just beyond it found a spot suitable for repose. The Odd Women He went down to the reedy tarn, and at his approach several snipe got up, and they flew above his head uttering sharp cries. The Untilled Field Her voice, partially choked by emotion, blended with the soft wind and the rippling waves of the tarn. The Tarn of Eternity To-day's march was forty-three miles, and we were yet twenty-nine from the tarn—apparently the only water existing in this extraordinary and terrible region. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, They left their luncheon in the cave and hurried on at Alan's command to the little mountain tarn where Angus had killed the stag, and there the Clan gathered about him to hear his plan. The Scotch Twins For Arthur, long before they crown'd him King, Roving the trackless realms of Lyonnesse, Had found a glen, gray boulder and black tarn. Alfred Tennyson On Snowdon there is a lonely tarn called Dulyn, or the Black Lake, lying “in a dismal dingle surrounded by high and dangerous rocks.” The Golden Bough She walked restlessly by the tarn, breathed deeply. The Tarn of Eternity The horses were so exhausted that, though we started early enough, it was late in the afternoon when we had accomplished the twenty-nine or thirty miles that brought us at last to the tarn. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Twilight calm dropping down from the sun sleep to still the restless mountain tarn. The Metal Monster It was a lovely night; a night for lonely highland tarns, and southern shores by Baiae; without a cloud to veil the brightness of the stars. Under Two Flags Hereat he rejoiced and said to himself, "Haply some one here shall acquaint me with the mystery of the tarn and its fishes." The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 There, too, are tarns hidden in dark recesses and grottoes. The Tarn of Eternity We let her try to feed for a bit with the other three horses, and then started back for the tarn. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, At his favourite tarn, he revelled in the vast stillness with the greater awe for having heard the hum of men, and his minstrel dreams had derived fresh vigour from contact with the active world. The Dove in the Eagle's Nest And there ahead lie the great uplands, with marsh and mound and gleaming tarns. The Great Hunger The King marvelled mightily thereat, yet felt he sad at heart for that he saw no one to give him account of the waste and its tarn, the fishes, the mountains and the palace itself. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 Holding the weapon in his hand he waits on the shore, watches the tumultuous waters of the tarn. The Tarn of Eternity At twenty-six miles from the tarn we found a place where the natives had dug, and there seemed a good supply, so we camped there for the night. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, "Yes, I have been to the tarn," said Friedel, throwing his arm round his brother's neck in their boyish fashion. The Dove in the Eagle's Nest Then I hid me close in the reedy tarn, Where the Mammoth came to drink— Through brawn and bone I drave the stone, And slew him upon the brink. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 Thence they struck into the uncultivated grounds, and crossing them descended into a broad wilderness, and lo! in the midst of it stood a mountain tarn. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 Demo looked down at the tarn so far below. The Tarn of Eternity This morning's meal was to be the last we should make at our friendly little tarn, whose opportune waters, ripe figs, miniature mountains, and imitation fortresses, will long linger in my recollection. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, I liked not to vex my mother by my tidings, so I climbed up to the tarn. The Dove in the Eagle's Nest Till one night, when the sea-fog wrapped a shroud Round spar and spire and tarn and tree, Her soul went up on that lifted cloud From this sad old house by the sea. Complete Poetical Works Thereupon the man repaired to the tarn and cast his net; and when he landed it, lo! four fishes were therein exactly like the first. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 Such a one was the tarn that lay below. The Tarn of Eternity Among these I found a fine rock tarn; indeed, I might call it a marble bath, for the rock was almost pure white, and perfectly bare all round. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, It was in a little valley opening on that where lay the tarn. Sir Gibbie On the ascent from Baalbek to the Cedars the traveller comes upon Lake Lemone, a beautiful mountain tarn, without any apparent exit, the only sheet of water in the Lebanon. History of Phoenicia Thereupon quoth the King, "By Allah I will neither return to my capital nor sit upon the throne of my forbears till I learn the truth about this tarn and the fish therein." The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 The waters roil and tear at him as though the tarn were a living creature, a beast of prey. The Tarn of Eternity I had a good swim in the old tarn, and proceeded, reaching the Circus early in the afternoon. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, He had gone a long way, looking and calling without success, and had come in sight of a certain tiny loch, or tarn, that filled a hollow of the mountain. Sir Gibbie I CAN'T forget a gaunt grey barn Like a face without an eye That kept recurring by field and tarn Under a Cape Cod sky. Anthology of Massachusetts Poets There is something mysterious in loch-fishing, in the tastes and habits of the fish which inhabit the innumerable lakes and tarns of Scotland. Angling Sketches Yet she spoke of the tarn, where he must inevitably meet a foreordained fate. The Tarn of Eternity We had a swim in the fine rocky tarn, and we were delighted to be joined by Gibson in our ablutions. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, The smaller burn came from the tarn, and round that they must go, else Ginevra would never get to the other side of it; and then there was the Glashburn to cross. Sir Gibbie It was as black out there as were the waters of that silent tarn! Peter Ruff and the Double Four Even to this rule there are exceptions, and one of these is in the case of a tarn which I shall call, pleonastically, Little Loch Beg. Angling Sketches According to the moods of the sky the water in this tarn is blue and green, but as a sapphire is blue, as an emerald is green. Massimilla Doni On the westward side, the ground sloped steeply down to a deep pool or tarn. The Black Robe There the canals alive with gondolas, and the open harbour bright with many-coloured sails; here, the hidden lake, silent and lifeless, save when "A leaping fish Sends through the tarn a lonely cheer." Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness The vessel rested, like a bird on her nest, in a deep, still tarn, shut in, to all appearance, on every side by huge rock barriers. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales In winter the tarn is used by the curling club. Angling Sketches The mountain streams flow into a sort of natural reservoir or tarn up here; the earth they bring down has silted it up, and he is engaged in clearing it out. The Country Doctor Her eyes were dark, and full of unshed woe, Like mountain tarns which cannot overflow, Surcharged with rain, and round about the eyes Deep rings recorded sleepless nights, and cries Stifled before their birth. Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir This conferred the right of fishing not only in the Grundlsee, but also in the smaller tarn of Toplitz, a mile above it, and in the swift stream which unites them. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness They are as safe in their tarn as those enchanted fish of the “Arabian Nights.” Angling Sketches The “lakes,” too, through which it passes, are much more like tarns, or rather, considering the flatness of their banks, like well-meaning ponds. Angling Sketches One evening in August, a warm, still evening, I happened to visit the tarn. Angling Sketches But it is not so much what one catches in Loch Beg, as the monsters which one might catch that make the tarn so desirable. Angling Sketches Within a quarter of a mile of the village is a small tarn, very picturesquely situated among low hills, and provided with the very tiniest feeder and outflow. Angling Sketches I set off walking round the tarn on my own side—the left side—expecting to anticipate him, and that he must pass me on his way up the little burnside. Angling Sketches |
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