Père Silas stooped over the seat with its single occupant, the rustic bench and that which sat upon it: a strange mass it was—bearing no shape, yet magnificent.
He sat on a rustic bench, and I at the tree-root.
I made myself gardener of some tintless flowers that grew between its closely-ranked shrubs; I cleared away the relics of past autumns, choking up a rustic seat at the far end.
But she saw him sitting on the rustic seat at the further side.
But Anne, sitting on the rustic seat by the brook, did not look troubled, though she was certainly much excited.
" She was sitting beside the garden brook on the little rustic seat Gilbert had built.
The fellow is as handsome a rustic as need be seen.
He's not a rough diamond—a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic: he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man.
" And we all, including the rustic youth, drew round the table: an austere silence prevailing while we discussed our meal.
The mechanism of this apparatus was as simple as those used in the rustic sawmills of Norway.
The girls trimmed each dish with bright leaves, and made the supper look like a banquet for the elves, while the boys built a fire in the nook where ashes and blackened stones told of many a rustic meal.
The ceiling was pale blue, like the sky; the walls were covered with a paper like a rustic trellis, up which climbed morning-glories so naturally that the many-colored bells seemed dancing in the wind.
But Philip's self-taught skill in drawing was another link between them; for Tom found, to his disgust, that his new drawing-master gave him no dogs and donkeys to draw, but brooks and rustic bridges and ruins, all with a general softness of black-lead surface, indicating that nature, if anything, was rather satiny; and as Tom's feeling for the picturesque in landscape was at present quite latent, it is not surprising that Mr Goodrich's productions seemed to him an uninteresting form of art.
The reserved rustic road was presently joined by a shy little brother in the shape of a canal, which took its hand and ambled along by its side in perfect confidence, but with the same tongue-tied, uncommunicative attitude towards strangers.
The stout lady occasionally turned her head squarely around and surveyed Anne through her eyeglasses until Anne, acutely sensitive of being so scrutinized, felt that she must scream aloud; and the white-lace girl kept talking audibly to her next neighbor about the "country bumpkins" and "rustic belles" in the audience, languidly anticipating "such fun" from the displays of local talent on the program.
Here Diana met her, and the two little girls went on up the lane under the leafy arch of maples—"maples are such sociable trees," said Anne; "they're always rustling and whispering to you"—until they came to a rustic bridge.
You have Art to thank only for the fiddle-and-guitar music twice a week at the hop in the rustic pavilion.
The doctor dropped with a gasp on a rustic chair and mopped his brow again.
There is a reason some authors travel to a rustic cabin or sandy beach to write their novels.
"Even the world's most beautiful bodies are not going to save these rustic and passe Chinese-themed outfits," wrote a Chinese web user on Sina Weibo, the country's equivalent of Twitter.
