Book Quote by George Eliot

“To be a full-blooded hillbilly was to be a living koan. Half of you wanted to be dignified and half of you couldn’t tolerate…

— Carolyn Jourdan

“At the top of a hill our automobile stuck in a snowdrift. Peasants ran out of a cottage near by, shouting with laughter because…

— Rebecca West

“With drooping heads and tremulous tails, they mashed their way through the thick mud, floundering and stumbling between whiles, as if they were falling…

— Charles Dickens

“On all sides, as far as the eye could reach, rose the grass-covered heaps marking the site of ancient habitations. The great tide of…

— Austen Henry Layard

“Any hawk looking down on the orchard's cloistered square, hoping for the titbit of a beetle or a mouse, would see a patterned canopy…

— Jim Crace

And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses…

— H. G. Wells

“As I have often noted, a wagon with spoked wheels doesn’t just carry grain or freight from place to place; it carries the brilliant…

— Daniel C. Dennett

These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved…

— William Shakespeare

“The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of wagons, and the…

— H. G. Wells

“The waterwheel was twice a man’s height, wider than a man’s two stretched arms. The timbers, braced and bolted with rusty iron were heavy,…

— Joseph Hansen

“See in the mind’s eye wind blowing chaff on ancient threshing floors when men with fans toss up the trodden sheaves, and yellow-haired Demeter,…

— Homer

“This imaginary colour film of the past would need to have a soundtrack too, which would record the crunch and crackle of iron tyres…

— Adrian Bell