 More yellow was her head than the flower of the broom, and her skin was whiter than the foam of the wave, and fairer were her hands and her fingers than the blossoms of the wood anemone amidst the spray of the meadow fountain.  The Smith College Monthly - Page 4821906Full view - About this book
 | 1849 - 464 pages
...neck was a collar of ruddy gold, on which were precious emeralds and rubies. More yellow was her head than the flower of the broom, and her skin was whiter...her hands and her fingers than the blossoms of the wood anemone amidst the spray of the meadow fountain. The eye of the trained hawk, the glance of the... | |
 | Thomas Stephens - 1849 - 532 pages
...neck was a collar of ruddy gold, on which were precious emeralds and rubies. More yellow was her head than the flower of the broom, and her skin was whiter...her hands and her fingers than the blossoms of the wood anemone amidst the spray of the meadow fountain. The eye of the trained hawk, the glance of the... | |
 | Mabinogion - 1849 - 466 pages
...neck was a collar of ruddy gold, on which were precious emeralds and rubies. More yellow was her head than the flower of the broom, and her skin was whiter...her hands and her fingers than the blossoms of the wood anemone amidst the spray of the meadow fountain. The eye of the trained hawk, the glance of the... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1859 - 440 pages
...neck was a collar of ruddy gold, on which were precious emeralds and rubies. More yellow was her head than the flower of the broom,* and her skin was whiter...her hands and her fingers than the blossoms of the wood-anemone amidst the spray of the meadow fountain. The eye of the trained hawk was not brighter... | |
 | Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward - 1859 - 628 pages
...neck was a collar of ruddy gold, on which were precious emeralds and rubies. More yellow was her head than the flower of the broom, and her skin was whiter...her hands and her fingers than the blossoms of the woodanemone amidst the spray of the meadow fountain. The eye of the trained hawk, the glance of the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pages
...reed-grass upon the earth, when the dew of June is at the heaviest." And thus is Olwen described : " More yellow was her hair than the flower of the broom,...her hands and her fingers than the blossoms of the wood anemone, amid the spray of tiie meadow fountains." For loveliness it would be hard to beat that... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1866 - 840 pages
...reed-grass upon the earti. when the dew of June is at the heaviest." And thus is Ohven described — "More yellow was her hair than the flower of the broom, and her ekia was whiter than the foam of the wave, and fairer were her hands and her fingers than the blossoms... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1866 - 826 pages
...retd-grass upon ¡hearth, when the dew of June is at the heaviest." And thus is Olwen '-«cribed — "More yellow was her hair than the flower of the broom, and kr skin was whiter than the foam of the wave, and fairer were her hands aij lier fingers than, the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 214 pages
...reed-grass upon the earth, when the dew of June is at the heaviest." And thus is Olwen described : " More yellow was her hair than the flower of the broom,...woodanemony amidst the spray of the meadow fountains." For loveliness- it would be hard to beat that ; and for magical clearness and nearness take the following... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1869 - 798 pages
...neck was a collar of ruddy gold, on which were precious emeralds and rubies. More yellow was her head than the flower of the broom, and her skin was whiter...than the foam of the wave, and fairer were her hands than the blossom of the wood anemone amidst the spray of the meadow fountain. The eyu of the trained... | |
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