He cowered in the midst of the milky water, as though the vastness were pressing in upon him with overwhelming force, brutally crushing him with its complacent awfulness.
Farther on he knew he would come to where dead spruce and fir, very small and weazened, bordered the shore of a little lake, the TITCHIN-NICHILIE, in the tongue of the country, the "land of little sticks." And into that lake flowed a small stream, the water of which was not milky. There was rush- grass on that stream - this he remembered well - but no timber, and he would follow it till its first trickle ceased at a divide.
Late in the afternoon he followed a stream, milky with lime, which ran through sparse patches of rush-grass.
He reached for it with both hands and stirred up the milky mud at the bottom.
He loved the red gold of the sunstone, and the moonstone's pearly whiteness, and the broken rainbow of the
milky opal.
And some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher, except to sell by the cartload, as they do hills about Boston, to fill up some morass in the
Milky Way.
One thinks Heidelberg by day--with its surroundings-- is the last possibility of the beautiful; but when he sees Heidelberg by night, a fallen
Milky Way, with that glittering railway constellation pinned to the border, he requires time to consider upon the verdict.
Darling there was a commotion in the firmament, and the smallest of all the stars in the
Milky Way screamed out:
But if it should rain on that day, the
Milky Way becomes so wide that the birds cannot form a bridge.
In the spring of 1981, an occurrence of amethyst scepter overgrowths on
milky quartz was discovered in Ashaway Village, Hopkinton, Rhode Island.
To the eye it might seem that the first alternative is correct-except for the
Milky Way.