They had a year of joy, twelve months of the strange heaven which the salmon know on beds of river shingle, under the gin-clear water. For twenty-four years they were guilty, but this first year was the only one which seemed like happiness. Looking back on it, when they were old, they did not remember that in this year it had ever rained or frozen. The four seasons were coloured like the edge of a rose petal for them.
Quotes about shingle (7 Quotes)
In recent years, many seem to have spent their lives protesting. Perhaps they have felt to do this because they have felt repressed or wished to bring about change or have acted out of selfish reasons, thinking that if they tore the house down they might end up with a shingle.
My home didn't lose a shingle, but it's got 6 feet (nearly 2 meters) of water in it.
I don't even have a loose shingle. There are people on this force who went to work on Monday morning and at the end of the day didn't have anything but what they were wearing.
Guys buy in units. They buy a shirt, they buy a pair of pants -- it doesn't matter if it goes together. Women buy for a system, they buy for an entire outfit So instead of trying to sell you the shingle, (Web sites) are now positioning the shingle with the siding and the trim color.
As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares.
That's what so devastating, that goddamned levee breaking. My home didn't lose a shingle but it's got six feet of water in it.