I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away. The light and air abot me told me that the world ended here: only the ground and sun and sky were left, and if one went a little farther there would only be sun and sky, and one would float off into them, like the tawny hawks which sailed over our heads making slow shadows on the grass.
Quotes about tawny (9 Quotes)
I went up to the terrace again and looked out on the tawny, many-alleyed city. At night it looked carved from brown sugar.
Cattle and fat sheep can all be had for the raiding, tripods for the trading, and tawny headed stallions. But a mans's lifebreath cannot come back again- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.
Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.
Here and there a tawny brook prattled out from among the underwood and lost itself again in the ferns and brambles upon the further side. Save the dull piping of insects and the sough of the leaves, there was silence everywhere--the sweet restful silence of nature.
Now half appear'd The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts.
Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons. It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.
Both Jess and Tawny ran smart races, and it was obvious they wanted to do well here at home. We may not be at our best right now, so sometimes teams creep up and catch us, like they did today. But in two weeks we'll be ready.
To hold a letter to the light --
Grown Tawny now, with time --
To con the faded syllables
That quickened us like Wine!