"Alternate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... its combination to the view Of all that interests, delights, enchants;— Corn-waving fields, and pastures green, and slope, And swell alternate, summits crown'd with leaf, And grave-encircled mansions, verdant capes, The beach, the inn, the farm, the mill, the path, And tinkling rivulets, and waters wide, Spreading in lake-like mirrors to ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 17, No. - 488, May 7, 1831 • Various
... rushing wildly from side to side according to custom, she advanced timidly, absorbed in deep memory; at every glance her face expressed a recollection; she seemed to alternate between a vague dread and an unconquerable delight; she seemed like a dim sky filled with an inner radiance, but for a time it seemed uncertain which would prevail—sunlight or shadow. But, like the sunlight, joy burst ...
— Evelyn Innes • George Moore
... swallow-like, over that royal avenue in the fresh atmosphere, amidst the waving of grass and foliage, whose powerful scent swept against one's face. Pierre and Marie scarcely touched the soil: it was as if wings had come to them, and were carrying them on with a regular flight, through alternate patches of shade and sunshine, and all the scattered vitality of the far-reaching, quivering forest, with its mosses, its sources, its animal and ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola
... world of living figures,—a theatre that presents to us a majestic drama, varied by alternate scenes of the grandest achievements and the most ...
— Atlantic Monthly Vol. 6, No. 33, July, 1860 • Various
... In an alternate song of his between an old man and a boy, the old man draws an artistic contrast between the shady coolness of the wood and the mid-day glow of the sun, while the boy praises Him whose songs the creatures follow as once they followed Orpheus with his lute; and at the end, Charlemagne, ...
— The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and - Modern Times • Alfred Biese
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