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Susan Cooper _ The Dark Is Rising
The man was tall, and wore a dark cloak that fell straight like a robe; his hair, which grew low over his neck, shone with a curious reddish tinge.
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Susan Cooper _ The Dark Is Rising
including him in the words.
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Susan Cooper _ The Dark Is Rising
For this was Christmas, which had always been a time of magic, to him and to all the world.
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Susan Cooper _ The Dark Is Rising
The surface of the iron was irregular, but though it showed no sign of having been polished it was completely smooth-smooth in a way that reminded him of a certain place in the rough stone floor of the kitchen, where all the roughness had been worn away by generations of feet turning to come round the corner from the door.
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Susan Cooper _ The Dark Is Rising
the house and everyone in it lay in a sleep that would not be broken.
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Susan Cooper _ The Dark Is Rising
the sky dark with wheeling birds.
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Susan Cooper _ The Dark Is Rising
He was among trees then, spring trees tender with the new matchless green of young leaves, and a clear sun dappling them; summer trees full of leaf, whispering, massive; dark winter firs that fear no master and let no light brighten their woods. He learned the nature of all trees, the particular magics that are in oak and beech and ash.
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Susan Cooper _ The Dark Is Rising
They are English," Merriman said. "Quite right," said Will's father. "Splendid in adversity, tedious when safe. Never content, in fact. We're an odd lot.
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Susan Cooper _ The Dark Is Rising
The Herdsman passed, nodding, the bright star Arcturus at his knee; the Bull roared by, bearing the great sun Aldebaran and the small group of the Pleiades singing in small melodic voices, like no voices he had ever heard.
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Susan Cooper _ The Dark Is Rising
The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world.
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Susan Cooper _ The Dark Is Rising
He was woken by music. It beckoned him, lilting and insistent; delicate music, played by delicate instruments that he could not identify, with one rippling, bell-like phrase running through it in a gold thread of delight. There was in this music so much of the deepest enchantment of all his dreams and imaginings that he woke smiling in pure happiness at the sound.
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Susan Cooper _ The Dark Is Rising
every man has a last choice after the first, a chance of forgiveness. It is not too late. Turn. Come to the Light.
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