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“The hot, soggy breath of the approaching summer was extremely depressing”

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Book:A Journey through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier

Source: A Journey through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier

“The cotton was open and spilling into the fields; the very air smelled of it. In field after field as he passed along the pickers, arrested in stooping attitudes, seemed fixed amid the constant surf of bursting bolls like piles in surf, the long, partly-filled sacks streaming away behind them like rigid frozen flags. The air was hot, vivid and breathless--a final fierce concentration of the doomed and dying summer.”

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Book:The Hamlet

Source: The Hamlet

“Many of the town’s residents summered up North, along with their horses. Others took long, slow weekends at the beach or on the lake or in the mountains, in family homes built by their great grandparents and passed through the generations like prized silver. The rest of us simply tempered our pace and entered into the peace that floated around us on the breeze of a slow-moving fan.”

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Book:The Rhythm of Selby

Source: The Rhythm of Selby

“By July, a damp Southern heat had settled down on the town like warm sweet syrup.”

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Author:Marti Healy