In midmost of the stream, embraced in the weir's shimmering arm-spread, a small island lay anchored, fringed close with willow and silver birch and alder.
A romantic hug is when both people pull each other close by the waist and look deep into each other's eyes, with arms wrapped tight around each other and their foreheads are pressed together.
Broad on both bows, at the distance of some two or three miles, and forming a great semicircle, embracing one half of the level horizon, a continuous chain of whale-jets were up-playing and sparkling in the noon-day air.
" My dear, nothing can comfort me like this, " he answered, with a falter in his voice, and both arms round her, as if he too, needed help, and did not fear to ask for it.
If you have like a really chill little baby chimp who is happy to be on your lap, and it holds you, then you have the wrong effect when you put it in a cage.
This bustling town near the Laos border is surrounded by undulating green hills scored with tea plantations; it produces an eponymous variety of tea, considered one of China's most refined.
There is no such thing as Olympic fever here. Many of these hotel rooms in Gorki Gorod up in the mountains weren't even ready for the games and are still unfinished.
Except for one or two places such as Zermatt and Chamonix, which had rapidly become popular, Alpine villages tended to be impoverished settlements cut off from civilization by the high mountains.
He sat there, keeping me cradled against his chest. The moon was already up, visible through the gauzy clouds, and his face glowed pale in the white light.
You can see North America here, nicely spooning Australia, with South America cosying up to now tropical Antarctica finishing off our big continental group hug.
The surrounding snowy peaks act like a huge reservoir, delivering abundant water resources to the grassland and forming a huge number of lakes and marshes.