Not a single merchant ever buys a
forest without counting the trees, unless they get it given them for nothing, as you're doing now.
[1] The Black
forest artist paints it--his masterpiece.
Myself, forgetting the
forest, I tackled a glass panel and began to finger it in every direction, hunting for the weak point on which to press in order to turn the door in accordance with Erik's system of pivots.
On the way into the
forest Hansel crumbled his in his pocket, and often stood still and threw a morsel on the ground.
(and it is a rare thing on this road) of the great
forest. Over the horizon of trees, the volcano of Corcovado, and the great flat-topped one to the north, stood out in proud pre-eminence: scarcely another peak in the long range showed its snowy summit.
They fly far and wide, in rain and sunshine; they know the whole
forest here, both within and without."
In the open space between the
forest and the city walls, quantities of garden stuff was growing, while before him at his feet, in an open man-made ditch, ran a stream of water!
When we had gorged our fill, we carried the remainder of the meat to the eastward
forest and hid it in a tree.
How Thurid and Matai Shang were to land I could not imagine, though later I was to learn that to the level of the
forest top there rises in each city of Kaol a slender watchtower which guards the Kaolians by day and by night against the secret approach of a hostile fleet.
But the little stream would not be comforted, and still kept telling its unintelligible secret of some very mournful mystery that had happened -- or making a prophetic lamentation about something that was yet to happen -- within the verge of the dismal
forest. So Pearl, who had enough of shadow in her own little life, chose to break off all acquaintance with this repining brook.
A few reached the barred gates, only to be shot in their tracks, without the ghost of a chance to gain the inside of the palisade, and then the whole attack crumpled, and the remaining warriors scampered back into the
forest. As they ran the raiders opened the gates, rushing after them, to complete the day's work with the utter extermination of the tribe.
Amidst these pleasant and praiseworthy meditations, Goodman Brown heard the tramp of horses along the road, and deemed it advisable to conceal himself within the verge of the
forest, conscious of the guilty purpose that had brought him thither, though now so happily turned from it.