The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 149Atlantic Monthly Company, 1932 - American essays |
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Page 41
... ground looked painfully close . Everything was very quiet , except for the soughing of the wind past wings and wires . He heard scattered machine - gun fire from the ground . The Lines were in full view ahead . He looked straight down ...
... ground looked painfully close . Everything was very quiet , except for the soughing of the wind past wings and wires . He heard scattered machine - gun fire from the ground . The Lines were in full view ahead . He looked straight down ...
Page 224
... ground , there was an untidy collection of sticks . This was their eyrie . Each year they added to it . It was a rough inverted cone , the base of which formed a sort of platform eight feet above the fork of the tree . It was six feet ...
... ground , there was an untidy collection of sticks . This was their eyrie . Each year they added to it . It was a rough inverted cone , the base of which formed a sort of platform eight feet above the fork of the tree . It was six feet ...
Page 226
... ground . Feebly twitch- ing , it made no effort to escape ; and even as its mother watched , the lamb's life went out in a gurgling sob , and it lay still . Across the body a very demon clothed in feathers stood , wings half spread ...
... ground . Feebly twitch- ing , it made no effort to escape ; and even as its mother watched , the lamb's life went out in a gurgling sob , and it lay still . Across the body a very demon clothed in feathers stood , wings half spread ...
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