I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen.
We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.
There are a few of the open-air spirits; the more domestic of their tribe gather within-doors, plentiful as swallows under southern eaves.
Autumn is full of leave-taking. In September the swallows are chattering of destination and departure like a crowd of tourists.
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; and gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.
September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.
At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats By the Ponte Vecchio . . . Changing guard.
One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.
