1 There the silence had deepened about him year by year.
2 For years that quiet company had mocked his restlessness, his desire for change and freedom.
3 I don't believe but what you're the only stranger has set foot in that house for over twenty years.
4 It was little more than a year ago, on just such a soft afternoon, with a "feel" of spring in the air.
5 "I've a good mind to go and hunt up those stomach powders I got last year over in Springfield," she continued.
6 Though she was but seven years her husband's senior, and he was only twenty-eight, she was already an old woman.
7 He used to think that fifty years sounded like a long time to live together, but now it seemed to him that they might pass in a flash.
8 And within a year of their marriage she developed the "sickliness" which had since made her notable even in a community rich in pathological instances.
9 He still took refuge there in summer, but when Mattie came to live at the farm he had to give her his stove, and consequently the room was uninhabitable for several months of the year.
10 It was the first scene of open anger between the couple in their sad seven years together, and Ethan felt as if he had lost an irretrievable advantage in descending to the level of recrimination.
11 She was no longer the listless creature who had lived at his side in a state of sullen self-absorption, but a mysterious alien presence, an evil energy secreted from the long years of silent brooding.
12 Mrs. Hale glanced at me tentatively, as though trying to see how much footing my conjectures gave her; and I guessed that if she had kept silence till now it was because she had been waiting, through all the years, for some one who should see what she alone had seen.
13 Mattie Silver had lived under his roof for a year, and from early morning till they met at supper he had frequent chances of seeing her; but no moments in her company were comparable to those when, her arm in his, and her light step flying to keep time with his long stride, they walked back through the night to the farm.
14 Four or five years earlier he had taken a year's course at a technological college at Worcester, and dabbled in the laboratory with a friendly professor of physics; and the images supplied by that experience still cropped up, at unexpected moments, through the totally different associations of thought in which he had since been living.
15 Four or five years earlier he had taken a year's course at a technological college at Worcester, and dabbled in the laboratory with a friendly professor of physics; and the images supplied by that experience still cropped up, at unexpected moments, through the totally different associations of thought in which he had since been living.