"Embank" Quotes from Famous Books
... to his mountain. Exhausted, he still made light of his achievement—climbing through day and night to arrive before the snow should embank around him. He stood in the firelight swaying with weariness and tasted the hot coffee and shook his grizzled head and laughed. The animals came slowly on and stood close to him, almost resting their noses on his shoulder, while Harry King gazed ... — The Eye of Dread • Payne Erskine |