A "few" refrerences from amazon.com
Blackwood Farm:
Page 96 "I learned from all this, from the endless variety with ...
the empty little stone church to pray. "The four oak trees that guard
the cemetery now were already well grown at that time, and the
proximity of the old graveyard to ..."
Page 118 "Now the roots of the four oak trees down there have buckled
some of the rectangular tombs as well as the little fence, but what
can anyone do ..."
Page 124 "not even Goblin could wake me before I heard Aunt ... petals
had fallen from a long flank of crape myrtle trees or from Japanese
magnolias. I tend to think it was crape myrtles after a rain. I'll
never forget that stretch ..."
Page 164 "the wedding ring, he said, `I'm keeping this,' and Patsy ...
meant. "I went walking down the long avenue of pecan trees out front,
looking back at the house to treasure the sight of it and imagine how
it struck the new ..."
Page 174 "Then one night, when the panic was on me heavy ... of the
house, looking down the long avenue of pecan trees at the changing of
the light. It was a Tuesday, I'm almost sure, and we had no company,
the last ..."
Page 206 "It was chilling to see this clear view of the ... inch of
it that I could reach. Yes, the cypress trees had created it and
anchored it, and from the west and the north they were so thick that
the island ..."
Page 230 "could Goblin go? I was thinking a lot of late ... it was the
evil bog of mosquitoes and chain-girded cypress trees with arrows
carved into their bark. The rustling of creatures in the dark waters
and the sight of more than ..."
Page 284 spirits that sometimes accosted me. But it was their style
... "When I looked up I saw Goblin by the oak tree, watching me. I was
drunk and he was cold sober. I was filthy dirty. He was immaculately
clean. He wasn't .
Page 410 "white curly hair and quick inquisitive eyes. His clothes
were ... Venus-and beds of exquisite spring flowers and some small
citrus trees, and one bearing a single lemon of monstrous size. I
paused to look at it. " `Isn't it charming?' he ..." 12. Page 416
"concern about them. That's why I must warn you that ... thoughtfully
as though it comforted him to see the maple tree and the willow and
the huge strapping magnolia that promised to dominate the little glen.
" `Tell me something, young ..."
Page 490 "'All right, you behave yourself, Tommy Harrison,' she said.
And ... the swaying oleanders in full bloom and the occasional oak
trees, which meant we were truly home. "I felt Louisiana all around
me, and I loved it. And by the time ..."
Blood and Gold:
Page 128 "It was the spacious garden I loved to paint above ... the
desperate and lovely Daphne who turned into a laurel tree rather than
allow the godly rape. On and on I worked, happy with mortal company,
thinking, Mael and Avicus, please ..."
Page 278 all the details, sometimes smiling, sometimes weeping,
wiping at my ... leave behind its dark flower- rich grass and
overhanging orange trees. Only reluctantly did I move on to find more
of Botticelli where I could. I might have staggered around Florence
..."
Page 452 "Don't cry, Bianca: I whispered. Then I sank my teeth ...
love with Botticelli, and it was filled with his orange trees and with
his flowers and yet it was my garden, the garden of my father's house
outside Rome long long ..."
Page 506 "a lovely forest of beech, oak and birch trees. There was a
terrace from which one could look down at the river, and from many
large windows, one could ..."
Page 552 "for a moment to think of anything, even of my ... then. We
gathered at our great table in the redwood trees-as if we were a new
and passionate Faithful of the Forest-and when the Queen came to us
with her plan ..."
Memnoch the Devil:
Page 435 "... falling here, only the soft scent of the sweet olive
trees, and the tulip magnolias in the old neglected convent garden
..."
Blood Canticle:
Page 297 "... slope above the cemetery, under the canopy of the oak
tree where the stars couldn't see us. My hands wanted all ..."
Violin:
Page 322 Mountains rose up straight from the earth. Grass-roofed huts
along ... crowded up against it but could not touch it. Almond trees
clustered in the middle of its circular drive, trees with big broad
shiny green leaves, none too great, as though ..."
Page 336 "Some impulse was born in me, some impulse I hadn't ... It
broke my heart, this loveliness. Beneath me, the banana trees plunged
in a straight line, down and down the mountainside as if following the
path of one root or spring, ..." |
