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1  In the side of what had seemed to be a snow-bank stood a solid-looking little door, painted a dark green.
The Wind in the Willows By Kenneth Grahame
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III. THE WILD WOOD
2  The Willow-Wren was twittering his thin little song, hidden himself in the dark selvedge of the river bank.
The Wind in the Willows By Kenneth Grahame
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII. THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN
3  The Mole reached out from under his blanket, felt for the Rat's paw in the darkness, and gave it a squeeze.
The Wind in the Willows By Kenneth Grahame
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II. THE OPEN ROAD
4  As he sighed and blew and stared before him into the dark hole, some bright small thing shone and twinkled in its depths, moving towards him.
The Wind in the Willows By Kenneth Grahame
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X. THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF TOAD
5  There through dark doorways you look down flights of stone steps, overhung by great pink tufts of valerian and ending in a patch of sparkling blue water.
The Wind in the Willows By Kenneth Grahame
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX. WAYFARERS ALL
6  It was cold, and dark, and damp, and low, and narrow, and poor Toad began to shiver, partly from dread of what might be before him, partly because he was wet through.
The Wind in the Willows By Kenneth Grahame
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII. THE RETURN OF ULYSSES
7  He hailed the Mole to come and warm himself; but Mole promptly had another fit of the blues, dropping down on a couch in dark despair and burying his face in his duster.
The Wind in the Willows By Kenneth Grahame
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V. DULCE DOMUM
8  Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
The Wind in the Willows By Kenneth Grahame
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I. THE RIVER BANK
9  Presently he saw that he was approaching a big dark hole in the bank, just above his head, and as the stream bore him past he reached up with a paw and caught hold of the edge and held on.
The Wind in the Willows By Kenneth Grahame
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X. THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF TOAD
10  Little was visible but squares of a dusky orange-red on either side of the street, where the firelight or lamplight of each cottage overflowed through the casements into the dark world without.
The Wind in the Willows By Kenneth Grahame
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V. DULCE DOMUM
11  He took one hasty glance at his eyes; found them, to his great gratification, clear and dark and brown again as before; and then sat down and tried to cheer him up and help him to relate what had happened to him.
The Wind in the Willows By Kenneth Grahame
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX. WAYFARERS ALL
12  When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition.
The Wind in the Willows By Kenneth Grahame
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII. THE RETURN OF ULYSSES
13  Very anxious in mind, the Mole left him for a time and busied himself with household matters; and it was getting dark when he returned to the parlour and found the Rat where he had left him, wide awake indeed, but listless, silent, and dejected.
The Wind in the Willows By Kenneth Grahame
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX. WAYFARERS ALL
14  He had been on the river with some companions, leaving the Water Rat free to keep a engagement of long standing with Otter; and he had come back to find the house dark and deserted, and no sign of Rat, who was doubtless keeping it up late with his old comrade.
The Wind in the Willows By Kenneth Grahame
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII. THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN
15  They piled on more coals, and the train shot into the tunnel, and the engine rushed and roared and rattled, till at last they shot out at the other end into fresh air and the peaceful moonlight, and saw the wood lying dark and helpful upon either side of the line.
The Wind in the Willows By Kenneth Grahame
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII. TOAD'S ADVENTURES
16  But he soon stopped laughing when he came to consider that it was now very late and dark and cold, and he was in an unknown wood, with no money and no chance of supper, and still far from friends and home; and the dead silence of everything, after the roar and rattle of the train, was something of a shock.
The Wind in the Willows By Kenneth Grahame
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII. TOAD'S ADVENTURES
17  As he sat on the grass and looked across the river, a dark hole in the bank opposite, just above the water's edge, caught his eye, and dreamily he fell to considering what a nice snug dwelling-place it would make for an animal with few wants and fond of a bijou riverside residence, above flood level and remote from noise and dust.
The Wind in the Willows By Kenneth Grahame
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I. THE RIVER BANK
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