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  • There were shots of people cavorting on beaches and smiling on back porches, vistas from around the island, and lots of kids, posing in singles and pairs, informal snapshots and formal portraits taken in front of backdrops, their subjects clutching dead-eyed dolls, like they'd gone to Glamour Shots in some creepy turn-of-the-century shopping mall.†   (source)
  • On the far side of the stoneworks, the mountains opened up suddenly upon a vista of green fields, blue sky, and snowcapped mountains that took her breath away.†   (source)
  • Piper tried to remember the vista in her dreams.†   (source)
  • Barbour's great-great-grandfather had been president of one of the historic founding banks, in Massachusetts, long since stripped of its name after merging with Vista).†   (source)
  • She weeps when she looks down the long dreary vista of time and beholds in horror the spectacle of Limerick boys defiling themselves, polluting themselves, interfering with themselves, abusing themselves, soiling their young bodies, which are the temples of the Holy Ghost.†   (source)
  • The view from up here was spectacular, even putting the vista from the Presidential Suite in the shade.†   (source)
  • He still wished the Wooded Island had been left alone, and he decried the unplanned proliferation of concession buildings that "intercepted vistas and disturbed spaces intended to serve for the relief of the eye from the too nearly constant demands upon attention of the Exposition Buildings."†   (source)
  • For the last couple of centuries, since Wordsworth and the Romantic poets, the sublime landscape—the dramatic and breathtaking vista—has been idealized, sometimes to the point of cliche.†   (source)
  • Gus went on and on throughout the presentation, into Mae's preferences for films, for outdoor spaces to walk on and jog through, to favorite sports, favorite vistas.†   (source)
  • I reach the top of the hill and a beautiful vista is spread below me.†   (source)
  • Here, every vista ended in the same concrete barrier; the camp was set down in a vast man-made valley rising on every side to those towering wire-topped walls.†   (source)
  • On this strange sort of school-but-not-school day, and with the snowy vista outside, Emily Sue's kitchen seemed twice as welcome, and warm, and fun.†   (source)
  • CosaNostra Pizza #3569 is on Vista Road just down from Kings Park Mall.†   (source)
  • It looks like the backdrop of an old Hollywood western, just another gorgeous Rocky Mountain vista.†   (source)
  • In one moment, Sarayu's words opened up a new vista into Kate's struggle.†   (source)
  • His vista of the sea was a wide and windy one; his gardens were planted with low azalea hedges, camellias, starina roses, and espaliered boxwoods, all framed by the whitecaps on the shuffling waters and the annealed gray of the beach stones.†   (source)
  • Spread out below was a broad vista of aqua blue ocean, mottled with the same jade green as a certain hair ornament Mameha sometimes wore.†   (source)
  • The open vistas distressed me, the sense of being adrift in a crowd of people pressing in on all sides, wanting to touch me, greet me, wish me well.†   (source)
  • As the vista opened before her, she took in the main house, with its big covered porch and black shutters, backed by a copse of towering trees.†   (source)
  • A sparkling vista of slanting, needle-sharp spires, glittering, paperthin edges, and rippling surfaces confronted Eragon as he heaved himself onto the rough-hewn planks.†   (source)
  • I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.†   (source)
  • What loomed before his eyes was a huge, complicated vista, crowded with more detail than the mind could absorb.†   (source)
  • Unlike the one in the foyer, it was hardly professional, with no dramatic vista behind us.†   (source)
  • I could hear past the trees, to the road, the sounds of the cars coming around that last bend where you could finally see the beach—the vista of the islands and the rocks and the big blue ocean stretching to the horizon.†   (source)
  • He was suspicious of the tape because it had a vista different from his experience and he kept thinking the girl was going to move the camera and get him in the picture.†   (source)
  • High above the Baltoro, a gorak circled hopefully, its large black wings brushing the vista of candied peaks.†   (source)
  • He finished a degree in elementary education and happily landed a job at Vista del Camino in South Scottsdale.†   (source)
  • The vista below us, despite the gory freight of its history, was invigorating.†   (source)
  • The vista was stunning enough that even the taci-turn fauns paused in their labors to watch as they approached.†   (source)
  • I held her and looked across the long vista of the room to where Claudia stood, with that strange coffin, watching me.†   (source)
  • John Milton threw open whole new vistas filled with charming, inexhaustible possibilities that promised to ward off monotony forever.†   (source)
  • As they rode farther away from Alicante, walls of green foliage whipped by on either side, giving way every so often to improbably beautiful vistas: frost blue lakes, green valleys, gray mountains, silver slivers of river and creek flanked by banks of flowers.†   (source)
  • On three sides, a vista of hills and trees, and above, a blue sky streaked with pearly clouds.†   (source)
  • Denied the pacifying vista that had drawn him to the shore, Joe found some solace in the surging tide that pressed against his legs and in the low, dumb grumble of the great watery machine.†   (source)
  • Vistas widened.†   (source)
  • You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you cannot be seduced.†   (source)
  • They view the scene from a brief distance above and no matter who they are or how old, they gain a wisdom from that last vista.†   (source)
  • The tall Arab admired the vista from his window while the porter, an African, hung his garment bag in the closet and placed his suitcase on a stand in the bedroom.†   (source)
  • He was moving past the great display cases, past vistas of unimaginable worlds, at a speed of twenty or thirty kiometres an hour.†   (source)
  • He gazed away, into some vista of Victorian England whose light had been lost forever.†   (source)
  • …of old Stingo, buck private in the United States Marine Corps, at the moment when the terrible last dustin a translucent curtain of powdery siftings so thick that, in Sophie's words, "you could taste it on the lips like sand"—of some 2,100 Jews from Athens and the Greek islands billowed across the vista upon which she had earlier fixed her gaze, obscuring the pastoral figures of serenely grazing sheep as completely as if a towering fogbank had swept in from the Vistula marshes?†   (source)
  • Then he came to a place where the timbered slope fell away steeply and a wide vista opened to the north and the west.†   (source)
  • …the Burns killing had actually been something of the sort that now seemed to be the case, that the washed-out experiment had really been a success of a different sort, a triumph, a new link or fob for the chain of being … And Leila had not been wholly discouraging with respect to the neuristor-type brain's capacity for this … Now, though, now I had troubles of my own, and even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own.†   (source)
  • Soon the valley slopes fanned out, exposing new vistas: wider horizons: the whole range of the hills, startlingly detailed in the clear, hazeless air.†   (source)
  • I lacked artistic inclination and had no eye for beauty, but, making my magazine rounds on roller skates, when I reached a hilltop vista which looked far out over the Hackensack Meadows, I loved to sit and stare at that fantasy rising miles and miles away through the mists.†   (source)
  • But places were also named from the way the expedition felt at the time: Buena Esperenza, good hope; Buena Vista because the view was beautiful; and Chualar because it was pretty.†   (source)
  • That which I am telling you is so much like The far-off vistas now plunged in sleep.†   (source)
  • …a corn patch, big as an ordinary barnyard; but the people there, very glum and watchful, said they had never even heard of her; and after a long while the valley opened out a little and Ralph began to think that perhaps he recognized it, only it sure didn't look like itself if it was it, and all of a sudden a curve opened into half-forested meadow and there were glimpses of a gray house through swinging vistas of saplings and Ralph said, "By golly, and again, "By golly, that is hit.†   (source)
  • Far, far down a vista of intolerable light, a tiny daub of black cotton, Twosie had stationed herself at the edge of things, and slept and fished.†   (source)
  • The vista coming over the mountains was quite stunning.†   (source)
  • Although on the surface of things she'd appeared calmer, the staff at Bella Vista had their doubts.†   (source)
  • Vista Road used to belong to the State of California and now is called Fairlanes, Inc. Rte.†   (source)
  • — and the Bella Vista Clinic entered the picture.†   (source)
  • The director of Bella Vista had been absent, the staff had been confused.†   (source)
  • That's one of the things they do, at Bella Vista."†   (source)
  • The Bella Vista Clinic was said to be up north somewhere, but up north covered a lot of territory.†   (source)
  • He wouldn't know about Bella Vista, he wouldn't know I went to Halifax.†   (source)
  • Bella Vista, he said, was outside the city.†   (source)
  • Laura was no longer at Bella Vista, he said.†   (source)
  • He'd challenged the authority by which she had been placed in Bella Vista.†   (source)
  • It was the most forbidding vista Eragon had clapped eyes upon.†   (source)
  • What vistas of shining eccentricity, or madness?†   (source)
  • Plus the staring at lunch in the green, and the weird way he'd acted at the Vista 10.†   (source)
  • She stuck to her father's side and followed his wagging hand to particular vistas.†   (source)
  • 'I work at the Vista Ten,' she explained, her engine puttering as she switched into reverse.†   (source)
  • Thanks to everyone who came out for the Vista Five-K!†   (source)
  • 'The crowd shifted as people headed toward the banner' VISTA 5K: RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!†   (source)
  • A group of VISTA workers are going to meet them.†   (source)
  • Even today I so often remember Sophie glimpsed across Maple Court vistas.†   (source)
  • I saw in another glance that no VISTA workers were there to meet the boat.†   (source)
  • Jim and Vivian were VISTA volunteers who had been assigned to Yamacraw Island.†   (source)
  • For weeks we'd been toiling in what amounted to a canyon; now, for the first time on the expedition the vista was primarily sky rather than earth.†   (source)
  • Beyond is the vista he remembers so well: the residences laid out like a garden suburb with large houses in fake Georgian and fake Tudor and fake French provincial, the meandering streets leading to the employees' golf course and their restaurants and nightclubs and medical clinics and shopping malls and indoor tennis courts, and their hospitals.†   (source)
  • The limited vista now opening before him wag extremely unpleasant: six weeks of life which he would spend suffering with his broken bones and renewing his acquaintance with Misery Chastain, n,e Carmichael, followed by a hasty interment in the back yard.†   (source)
  • Harry was walking blindly around the tent, feeling as though great new vistas of truth were opening all around him.†   (source)
  • She glanced back over her shoulder at one of Washington's newest vistas—the Capitol Dome framed above the new visitor center.†   (source)
  • It was the same calm and safe vista that was mine every night—the one that I sometimes admitted to myself I'd been afraid to leave when high school was over and the question of doing something else came up.†   (source)
  • They had rounded a curve and encountered a breathtaking vista, the edge of a roadway like a balcony looking out on miles and miles of countryside, a river below twisting like a thin black snake through the mottled earth.†   (source)
  • Having ascended unknowingly hundreds of feet into the air, he was now admiring one of the most spectacular vistas he had ever seen.†   (source)
  • But he's also writing about places we can call home: the flat or gently rolling ground of limestone country, with its fertile fields and abundant groundwater, with its occasional subterranean caves, and most important with its non-sublime but also nonthreatening vistas.†   (source)
  • Here, drifting in almost total silence, with no scents other than the singed odor of the raft, no flavors on his tongue, nothing moving but the slow procession of shark fins, every vista empty save water and sky, his time unvaried and unbroken, his mind was freed of an encumbrance that civilization had imposed on it.†   (source)
  • THE SAN RAFAEL SWELL, as the sun came up, unrolled in inhuman vistas like Mars: sandstone and shale, gorges and desolate rust-red mesas.†   (source)
  • In bed, in my opiated fevers, I dreamed of snowy mountains, pure and terrifying, alpine vistas from newsreel films of Berchtesgaden, great winds that crossfaded and blew with the windwhipped seas in the oil painting above my desk: tiny tossed sailboat, alone in dark waters.†   (source)
  • Sweeping, climbing curves greeted them and majestic landscapes unfolded in the distance, with farmhouses and barns scattered here and there in the vistas.†   (source)
  • We belonged together; there was a dream rightness and magic to it, inarguable; the thought of her flooded every corner of my mind with light and poured brightness into miraculous lofts I hadn't even known were there, vistas that seemed to exist not at all except in relationship to her.†   (source)
  • The first date coincided with my return from Europe, the last was three months or so before Laura's departure for Bella Vista.†   (source)
  • The Bella Vista Sanctuary,†   (source)
  • In the attic I found the nest Laura must have made for herself up there, after she'd left Bella Vista: the quilts from the storage trunks, the blankets from her bed downstairs — a dead giveaway if anyone had been searching the house for her.†   (source)
  • From Bella Vista?†   (source)
  • The Bella Vista Clinic.†   (source)
  • Bella Vista.†   (source)
  • The seven lean years, he stated, would now be followed by seven fat ones, and golden vistas could be seen stretching all the way through the '40's.†   (source)
  • Thankfully, he did not pursue this further, instead just putting on his blinker and turning into the front entrance of the Vista Mall, a sprawling complex of stores and restaurants.†   (source)
  • For an instant, Eragon felt the king's mind: a terrible, shadow-ridden vista swept with bitter cold and searing heat—ruled by bars of iron, hard and unyielding, which portioned off areas of his consciousness.†   (source)
  • I told him about the two suns, the elliptical orbit, the gray waters, the unmoving permanence of roots, the stunning vistas of a thousand eyes, the endless conversations of a million soundless voices that all could hear.†   (source)
  • At other times the trail opened up into the kind of expansive vista that she had seen only on postcards.†   (source)
  • Jamming the receiver's headphone attachment deeper into his ear, Mortenson squinted at the cut-and-pasted vistas of peaks he could make out through the MI-17's small portholes, trying to keep the phone's antenna oriented toward the south, where satellites reflecting his wife's voice circled.†   (source)
  • Pale blue walls suggested vast distances beyond the greenery, making the room feel larger than it was, the last vestige of a fashion for false vistas, more than five hundred years out of date.†   (source)
  • For the most part, he divided his time between talking with Saphira, thinking back upon the events of the past few weeks, and studying the ever-changing vista below them.†   (source)
  • He stopped the car before a vista of darkness: the hard night sky, the icy disk of a moon that seemed to shed cold instead of light, and a vast blackness of trees and rocks and canyons descending.†   (source)
  • If he drank a few beers and let the therapeutic vistas of the Pacific wash through him, he might then be calm enough to go to the cemetery.†   (source)
  • The aircraft headed back to Guam, which rhymes with bomb, but he was thinking of Greenland now, the shadowless white maw, the tricks of light, vistas without horizons at the end of them.†   (source)
  • Nearby, another woman in a Vista 5K T-shirt was climbing a stepladder to the clock, reaching up behind it.†   (source)
  • By the time I went to the bank, ran a couple of errands, and then doubled back around to the greenway, the Vista 5K was pretty much over.†   (source)
  • 'She came out from behind the counter, and I followed her across the lobby of the Vista 10'which was mostly empty except for some kids playing video games by the rest-rooms'to the box office door.†   (source)
  • 'Welcome to the Vista Five-K!' a voice boomed from the stage as I worked my way toward the main entrance, stepping around kids and dogs and more runners stretching and chatting and jogging in place.†   (source)
  • This was the same thing she'd said when I'd come across her, ten minutes earlier, sitting on the curb outside the Vista 10 box office on this unseasonably warm Saturday, a book open in her lap.†   (source)
  • I did my best to distract Nate from all this, dragging him to movies at the Vista 10 (where we got free popcorn and admission, thanks to Olivia), hanging out with Roscoe, and taking extended coffee trips to Jump Java.†   (source)
  • There would come to him snatches of conversation or song, colorful vistas of galleries, chambers, gardens.†   (source)
  • Much of the revelation was to come through the stamp collection Pierce had left, his substitute often for her— thousands of little colored windows into deep vistas of space and time: savannahs teeming with elands and gazelles, galleons sailing west into the void, Hitler heads, sunsets, cedars of Lebanon, allegorical faces that never were, he could spend hours peering into each one, ignoring her.†   (source)
  • She planted every kind of flower that she could find or order from a catalogue-planted thickly and hastily, without stopping to think, without any regard for the ideas that her neighbors might elect in their club as to what constituted an appropriate vista, or an effect of restfulness, or even harmony of color.†   (source)
  • For that's just what my calling's for— To keep the vistas from being bored, To keep the land beyond the city From pining by its lonely self.†   (source)
  • Jim and I departed soon and drove rather quickly over to the marina on Hilton Head where the VISTA workers had promised to meet the boat.†   (source)
  • I was driving a load of kids in my car and I wanted to be damn sure that the VISTA workers were at the appointed rendezvous point on Hilton Head.†   (source)
  • The boat, Dr. Piedmont, …. has opened vistas, horizons, and possibilities that never existed before.†   (source)
  • Somewhere along the Atlantic seaboard, four government cars driven by idealistic young VISTAs stood in formation facing the rising tides and looking for the boat from Yamacraw Island.†   (source)
  • "Ho, lady," he said, "I was at Buena Vista myself."†   (source)
  • They were not crowded together in disorder, but placed in wide spaces, long vistas between.†   (source)
  • It was just on midnight that we entered the small suburban garden of Buona Vista.†   (source)
  • Bright vistas opened before her—real money, the Yankee's horse, food!†   (source)
  • Scarlett, accustomed to wide vistas of rolling red hills, felt that she was in prison.†   (source)
  • There rose before his eyes, unsummoned, vistas of old stones and riverbanks, the pigeons of the Palais-Royal, the Gare du Nord, quiet old streets round the Pantheon, and many another scene of the city he'd never known he loved so much, and these mental pictures killed all desire for any form of action.†   (source)
  • Summer had come and the advanced grade and the glowing, incalculable and unlimned vista of the school vacation-that had remained unlimned.†   (source)
  • Mr. Ryder, the most respected of them wrote, rises like a fresh young trout to the hypodermic injection of a new culture and discloses a powerful facet in the vista of his potentialities… "By focusing the frankly traditional battery of his elegance and erudition on the maelstrom of barbarism, Mr. Ryder has at last found himself: Grateful words, but, alas, not true by a long chalk.†   (source)
  • Up vistaed slopes I sped And shot, precipited Adown Titanic glooms of chasmed fears, From those strong feet that followed, followed after.†   (source)
  • At Buona Vista, Wimbledon.†   (source)
  • Nor did he sigh retrospectively, when he viewed the equally pleasant, but not wholly satisfying vista of the past decade.†   (source)
  • But you see the endless vistas.†   (source)
  • It was all to his honor, and when he could no longer see them when they had dwindled down the long vista of the courts one inside the other, and had turned at last wholly out of sight, he went into the gateman's house and there he accepted as a matter of course from the gateman's pock-marked wife the honorable seat to the left of the table in the middle room, and he accepted with only a slight nod the bowl of tea which she presented to him and he set it before him and did not drink of…†   (source)
  • …the buggy moved not blowing away because it had been raised by no wind and was supported by no air but evoked, materialised about them, instantaneous and eternal, cubic foot for cubic foot of dust to cubic foot for cubic foot of horse and buggy, peripatetic beneath the branch-shredded vistas of flat black fiercely and heavily starred sky, the dustcloud moving on, enclosing them with not threat exactly but maybe warning, bland, almost friendly, warning, as to say, Come on if you like.†   (source)
  • The vista of pine trees ahead of them grew shorter and shorter through the vast powdering of descending flakes.†   (source)
  • She saw a long vista of picnics by the bubbling waters of Peachtree Creek and barbecues at Stone Mountain, receptions and balls, afternoon danceables, buggy rides and Sunday-night buffet suppers.†   (source)
  • …by the flicker of swords round helmets or elbow-cops, a nickering which, in extreme cases, was attended by such a shower of sparks as to make the struggling knights seem perfectly incandescent Wherever you went, during the first years, every vista had been terminated by a marching column of mercenaries, robbing and piling from the Marches—or by a knight of the new order exchanging buffets with a conservative baron whom he was trying to restrain from murdering serfs—or by a…†   (source)
  • The vista into depth closes over.†   (source)
  • And left alone to sleep within a shuttered room, with the thick sunlight printed in bars upon the floor, unfathomable loneliness and sadness crept through him: he saw his life down the solemn vista of a forest aisle, and he knew he would always be the sad one: caged in that little round of skull, imprisoned in that beating and most secret heart, his life must always walk down lonely passages.†   (source)
  • Or in a corner at a party, while the glasses clink and somebody beats on a piano, you talk with a stranger whose mind seems to whet and sharpen your own and with whom a wonderful new vista of ideas is spied.†   (source)
  • Were there always these vistas of rotting nineteenth-century houses, their sides shored up with baulks of timber, their windows patched with cardboard and their roofs with corrugated iron, their crazy garden walls sagging in all directions?†   (source)
  • So many of the sensations that returned to open haunting vistas of fantasy and imagining had been caught from a whirling landscape through the windows of the train.†   (source)
  • Scarlett, looking sorrowfully down the long vista of years to come, knew that she was the cause of a feud that would split the town and the family for generations.†   (source)
  • It did not occur to her that Ellen had looked down a vista of placid future years, all like the uneventful years of her own life, when she had taught her to be gentle and gracious, honorable and kind, modest and truthful.†   (source)
  • For a timeless time, she lay still, her face in the dirt, the sun beating hotly upon her, remembering things and people who were dead, remembering a way of living that was gone forever—and looking upon the harsh vista of the dark future.†   (source)
  • Buena Vista.†   (source)
  • From this point stretched the pleasant vista of drawing room and dining room beyond, the oval mahogany table which seated twenty and the twenty slim-legged chairs demurely against the walls, the massive sideboard and buffet weighted with heavy silver, with seven-branched candlesticks, goblets, cruets, decanters and shining little glasses.†   (source)
  • It all seemed wild and untamed to her coastbred eyes accustomed to the quiet jungle beauty of the sea islands draped in their gray moss and tangled green, the white stretches of beach hot beneath a semitropic sun, the long flat vistas of sandy land studded with palmetto and palm.†   (source)
  • He was certain that in this vista there lurked fierce-eyed hosts.†   (source)
  • It afforded a vista pleasant to contemplate.†   (source)
  • And then down the vista of the counters came a bawling of 'Here he is!'†   (source)
  • And now a new vista of peril opened before her.†   (source)
  • A vista of heavy oak rockers with leather seats, asleep in a dismal row.†   (source)
  • Some way down the central vista was a little table of white metal, laid with what seemed a meal.†   (source)
  • It opened up a vista of the range-life into which he was soon to enter.†   (source)
  • The man rolled them back; another vista lost itself in the darkness.†   (source)
  • I assume these are new and surprising vistas for you, are they not?†   (source)
  • And outside he went, like a king, with all Sierra Vista about him and tending on him.†   (source)
  • Sierra Vista was a far vaster affair than the tepee of Grey Beaver.†   (source)
  • In the meantime the newspapers were read at Sierra Vista, not so much with interest as with anxiety.†   (source)
  • But what were the guineas to him who saw no vista beyond countless days of weaving?†   (source)
  • "Why, were the Greeks great fighters?" said Tom, who saw a vista in this direction.†   (source)
  • Endless vistas have opened themselves to my mind's eye today.†   (source)
  • "See, Saltwater," said he exulting, pointing through the vista of trees; "pale-face fire!"†   (source)
  • The outcome: an immense vista of reflections that penetrated every liquid molecule.†   (source)
  • Rivenoak walked up the vista of trees as soon as he ceased speaking, leaving Deerslayer by himself.†   (source)
  • The whole vista had no one in it now but himself.†   (source)
  • Eyes and spyglasses (a bit dazzled, it is true, by the vista of $2,000.†   (source)
  • The vista of street and bridge was plain to see, and the sky was serene and beautiful.†   (source)
  • It was no mature woman with a long dark vista of intrigue behind her who was tormented thus, but a girl of simple life, not yet one-and twenty, who had been caught during her days of immaturity like a bird in a springe.†   (source)
  • And then, suddenly having reached a certain point from which he was prepared to follow it, after pausing for a moment, abruptly it changed its direction, and in a fresh movement, more rapid, multiform, melancholy, incessant, sweet, it bore him off with it towards a vista of joys unknown.†   (source)
  • They fixed their eyes simultaneously on the case opposite them, and when the official figure had vanished down a vista of mummies and sarcophagi Archer spoke again.†   (source)
  • A mile above the forks, running velvet-footed as was his custom, a gliding shadow that cautiously prospected each new vista of the trail, he came upon later imprints of the large tracks he had discovered in the early morning.†   (source)
  • Down every side street they could see, it was the same—never a hill and never a hollow, but always the same endless vista of ugly and dirty little wooden buildings.†   (source)
  • He looked back at himself along the vista of his past years, and his thought was akin to Heine's: Above the youth's inspired and flashing eyes I see the motley mocking fool's-cap rise!†   (source)
  • Other lanterns at intervals serve but to bring out somewhat the obscurer bays which, like small confessionals or side-chapels in a cathedral, branch from the long dim-vistaed broad aisle between the two batteries of that covered tier.†   (source)
  • Bare gray flats, low scrub-fringed hills, bleak cliffs, jumble after jumble of rocks, and occasionally a long vista down a valley, somehow compelling-these passed before her gaze until she tired of them.†   (source)
  • He came presently to the Avenue de l'Observatoire, and he gave a sigh of pleasure at the magnificent, yet so graceful, vista.†   (source)
  • The vista broadened to the northeast toward the entrance to the valley and included the lake, as expected—a frozen, snow-covered circle surrounded by forest.†   (source)
  • All vistas close in the unseen—no one doubts it—but Helen closed them rather too quickly for her taste.†   (source)
  • And here I was, with dreary and endless vistas before me of table-setting, potato-peeling, and dish-washing.†   (source)
  • Turning me around by one arm, he moved a broad flat hand along the front vista, including in its sweep a sunken Italian garden, a half acre of deep, pungent roses, and a snub-nosed motor-boat that bumped the tide offshore.†   (source)
  • For Madeline the morning hours flew by, with a goodly part of the time spent on the porch gazing out over that ever-changing vista.†   (source)
  • New vistas appeared ahead, peopled with the faces of many men, none of whom she need obey or even love.†   (source)
  • I saw in the distance the accident case raise deplorably both his hands to his bandaged head; a dresser, aproned to the chin showed himself in the vista of the ward, as if seen in the small end of a telescope.†   (source)
  • The future vista of her life seemed an unending succession of scenes like this: under moonlight and pale starlight, and in the backs of warm limousines and in low, cosy roadsters stopped under sheltering trees—only the boy might change, and this one was so nice.†   (source)
  • In France, St. Just and his party had triumphed, and here in England, face to face with these three refugees driven from their country, flying for their lives, bereft of all which centuries of luxury had given them, there stood a fair scion of those same republican families which had hurled down a throne, and uprooted an aristocracy whose origin was lost in the dim and distant vista of bygone centuries.†   (source)
  • …that it wanted three-quarters of an hour of the time at which he could get a train back to Alfredston, he strolled mechanically into the city as far as to the Fourways, where he stood as he had so often stood before, and surveyed Chief Street stretching ahead, with its college after college, in picturesqueness unrivalled except by such Continental vistas as the Street of Palaces in Genoa; the lines of the buildings being as distinct in the morning air as in an architectural drawing.†   (source)
  • "It's a farce—a crazy farce," he repeated, his eyes fixed on the long vista of the room reflected in the blotched glass between the windows.†   (source)
  • She turned her shoulder on him, stared through the back window, studying this typical center of a typical Main Street block, a vista hidden from casual strollers.†   (source)
  • "Why, this used to be one of the old Cesnola rooms," he heard some one say; and instantly everything about him vanished, and he was sitting alone on a hard leather divan against a radiator, while a slight figure in a long sealskin cloak moved away down the meagrely-fitted vista of the old Museum.†   (source)
  • In this way, for two consecutive summers I used to sit in the heat of our Combray garden, sick with a longing inspired by the book I was then reading for a land of mountains and rivers, where I could see an endless vista of sawmills, where beneath the limpid currents fragments of wood lay mouldering in beds of watercress; and nearby, rambling and clustering along low walls, purple flowers and red.†   (source)
  • Then the house had been boldly planned with a ball-room, so that, instead of squeezing through a narrow passage to get to it (as at the Chiverses') one marched solemnly down a vista of enfiladed drawing-rooms (the sea-green, the crimson and the bouton d'or), seeing from afar the many-candled lustres reflected in the polished parquetry, and beyond that the depths of a conservatory where camellias and tree-ferns arched their costly foliage over seats of black and gold bamboo.†   (source)
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