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I stood in the road, looking at the fluffy, dark-red young cattle that mooed and seemed to bark at me.
D.H. Lawrence, 'Wintry Peacock,' from England, My England, Penguin 1966, p. 91.
TIME: early 20th C.
PLACE: the farmlands of England
CIRCUMSTANCE: a young man stands in the snow
I was a little afraid of him. He gave a loud, vehement yell, opening his sinister beak, and I stood still, looking at him as he struggled in the bag, shaken myself by his struggles, yet not thinking to release him.
D.H. Lawrence, 'Wintry Peacock,' from England, My England, Penguin, 1966, p. 100.
TIME: early 20th C.
PLACE: a farm in England
CIRCUMSTANCE: A young man carries a peacock in a bag
"No, it isna," replied Mr Goyte. He spoke very slowly and deliberately, quietly, as if the soft pedal were always down on his voice.
D.H. Lawrence, 'Wintry Peacock,' from England, My England, Penguin, 1966, p. 101.
TIME: early 20th C.
PLACE: a farm in England
CIRCUMSTANCE: the speech of a farmer
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