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“Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung azaleas like a girl throwing rice at a desperate wedding. In dazzling profusion, Colleton ripened in a gauze of sweet gardens and the town ached beneath a canopy of promissory fragrance.”

Years Lasts Beautiful Girl Sweet Spring Garden Rivers Towns Desperate Throwing Fragrance Rice Dazzling Canopy Azaleas

Book:The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection

Source: The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection

“There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change There was a strange stillness The few birds seen anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of scores of bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.”

Heart America Sound Voice Silence Morning Fields Strange Spring Bird Areas Towns Harmony Lays Woods Dawn Score Stillness Surroundings Chorus Eco Marshes Blight

Author:Rachel Carson

“Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.”

Ifs Children Character Felt Support Doubt Streets Childhood Couple Spring Towns Our Family No Doubt Flaws Jersey Payment New Jersey Love Of Money Character Flaws I Love Money

Author:Michael Ian Black

“anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did.”

Summer Spring Singing Towns Dancing Winter Dancer Autumn Bells Floating Spring Summer

Author:e. e. cummings

“To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.”

Night Black Spring Towns Small Town

Author:Dylan Thomas

“One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least, that was our conclusion. After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience. We kind of made the best of it playing through the first set, took a break and bought him a Coke and then went on to perform for the remainder of the night. It wasn't exactly a catastrophe but it certainly stands as legendary.”

Mind Firsts Wells Kind Made Night Break Audience Band Spring Towns Customers East Conclusion Texas Catastrophe Curtains Gigs Loaded Coke Legendary East Texas

Author:Billy Gibbons

“It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobbledstreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.”

Night Black Sea Spring Towns Silent Woods Invisible Small Town Rabbits Limping

Author:Dylan Thomas

“It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.”

Dark Cities Sea Bed Spring Towns London Afternoon Chasing Mining City Of London North Sea

Book:Predator Cities x 4 and The Traction Codex

Source: Predator Cities x 4 and The Traction Codex

“Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist, and the student emerge from the dust of town into the joyous air of the country, for a few delightful hours among the rocks.”

May Country Science Hours Air Rocks Students Materials Offers Summer Spring Towns Rounds Observation Dust Ease Delightful Hammers Joyous Geology

Author:Archibald Geikie