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Her own name split stiff and hollow out of the dusty horn of an old phonograph, into the breathless house.
Patrick White, The Aunt's Story. The Viking Press, New York, 1948, p.3.
TIME: early 1900' s.
PLACE: Australia
There was a solid majority of soughing pines, which poured into the rooms the remnants of a dark green light, and sometimes in winter white splinters, and always a stirring and murmuring and brooding and vague discontent.
Patrick White, The Aunt's Story, The Viking Press, New York, 1948, p.13.
TIME: early 1900's.
PLACE: Australia
She listened to the clinking of the stirrups, and the horses blowing out their nostrils, and the heavy, slow, lazy streams of sound that fell from the coarse hair of their swishing tails.
Patrick White, The Aunt's Story, The Viking Press, New York, 1948, p.16.
TIME: early 1900's.
PLACE: Austalia
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