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«The pleasures of afternoon tea run like a trickle of honey through English literature from Rupert Brooke's wistful lines on the Old Vicarage at Grantchester to Miss Marple, calmly dissecting a case over tea cakes at a seaside hotel.»
Author: Stan Hey | Keywords: afternoon, afternoon tea, Brooke, cakes, calmly, dissect, dissected, dissecting, dissects, hotel, Old English, Rupert, Rupert Brooke, seaside, trickle, trickled, trickles, trickling, vicarage, wistful
«I walked abroad, / And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge / Like a red-faced farmer. / I did not stop to speak, but nodded, / And round about were the wistful stars / With white faces like town children.»
Author: Thomas Ernest Hulme | Keywords: abroad, faced, farmer, hedge, hedged, hedges, hedging, lean, nodded, nodding, red-faced, ruddier, ruddy, wistful
«She stood framed in the doorway, tall, mystic, silent, with strange, wistful face and deep soul shining in her dark questioning eyes. Nigel kissed the hand that she held out, and all his faith in woman and his reverence came back to him as he looked at her.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. | Keywords: doorway, doorways, Nigel, questioning, wistful
«I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: blue, Blue Skies, looked, prisoners, saw, tent, wistful
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