It advanced from behind the mountains of
Jura, and the thunder burst at once with frightful loudness from various quarters of the heavens.
He slept for a couple of hours, and at last, waking, found his eyes resting upon one of the snow-powdered peaks of the Jura, behind which the sky was just reddening with the dawn.
After breakfast he strolled forth alone into the village and looked at the fountain, the geese, the open barn doors, the brown, bent old women, showing their hugely darned stocking-heels at the ends of their slowly-clicking sabots, and the beautiful view of snowy Alps and purple Jura at either end of the little street.
This is now a very commonly received opinion; and I cannot still avoid the suspicion that it is applicable even to such cases as that of the
Jura. Dr.
I'd better burn the house down, I suppose, than let other people blow themselves up with my gunpowder," she thought as she watched the Demon of the
Jura whisk away, a little black cinder with fiery eyes.
Suzanne tripped with a light foot from the rue du Cours, by the rue de la Porte de Seez and the rue du Bercail, to the rue du Cygne, where, about five years earlier, du Bousquier had bought a little house built of gray
Jura stone, which is something between Breton slate and Norman granite.
The way is hard," came from the daughter, looking straight before her at the Chain of
Jura covered with snow, like a white wall closing the end of the street.
When I was sixteen I was sent to Geneva to complete my course of education; and the change was a very happy one to me, for the first sight of the Alps, with the setting sun on them, as we descended the
Jura, seemed to me like an entrance into heaven; and the three years of my life there were spent in a perpetual sense of exaltation, as if from a draught of delicious wine, at the presence of Nature in all her awful loveliness.
On the other side of the country, Mrs Moran put
Jura on Scotland's cultural map when she was one of the founders of the island's folk festival in 1994.
Jura was rescued by other fishermen in a motorboat.
He said they had been involved in an argument earlier in the evening over a curtain rail and described Polish national Ms
Jura as being "homesick".
On one occasion he turned up unannounced at Ms
Jura's mother's house in Poland, where his partner was staying, so he could propose to her.