ROCK in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 His whole face was colourless rock: his eye was both spark and flint.
2 That is just as fixed as a rock, firm set in the depths of a restless sea.
3 A more resolute, indefatigable pioneer never wrought amidst rocks and dangers.
4 So was the black horned thing seated aloof on a rock, surveying a distant crowd surrounding a gallows.
5 A soft hope blest with my sorrow that soon I should dare to drop a kiss on that brow of rock, and on those lips so sternly sealed beneath it: but not yet.
6 Floating on with closed eyes and muffled ears, you neither see the rocks bristling not far off in the bed of the flood, nor hear the breakers boil at their base.
7 My eye passed all other objects to rest on those most remote, the blue peaks; it was those I longed to surmount; all within their boundary of rock and heath seemed prison-ground, exile limits.
8 Not without cause was this sentiment: Mrs. Reed looked frightened; her work had slipped from her knee; she was lifting up her hands, rocking herself to and fro, and even twisting her face as if she would cry.
9 The words in these introductory pages connected themselves with the succeeding vignettes, and gave significance to the rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray; to the broken boat stranded on a desolate coast; to the cold and ghastly moon glancing through bars of cloud at a wreck just sinking.