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At first the Brangwens were astonished by all this commotion around them. The building of the canal across their land made them strangers in their own place, this raw bank of earth shutting them off disconcerted them. As they worked in the fields, from beyond the now familiar embankment came the rhythmic run of the winding engines, startling at first, but afterwards a narcotic to the brain. Then the shrill whistle of the trains re-echoed through the heart, with fearsome pleasure, announcing the far-off come near and imminent.
As they drove home from town, the farmers of the land met the blackened colliers trooping from the pit-mouth. As they gathered the sulphurous smell of pit-refuse burning. As they pulled the turnips in November, the sharp link-clink-clink-clink-clink of empty trucks shunting on the line, vibrated in their hearts with the fact of other activity going on beyond them.
D. H. Lawrence,The Rainbow, The Viking Press, New York, 1915, p. 7
PLACE: Great Britain
TIME: ca. 1910
And he closed the door behind her. Then the child was happy in the shed that smelled of sweet wood and resounded to the noise of the plane or the hammer or the saw, yet was charged with the silence of the worker.
D. H. Lawrence,The Rainbow, The Viking Press, New York, 1915, p.214
PLACE: Great Britain
TIME: ca. 1910
...She heard the screech of the bucket downstairs dragged across the flagstones as the woman washed the kitchen floor.
D. H. Lawrence,The Rainbow, The Viking Press, New York, 1915, p. 264
PLACE: Great Britain
TIME: ca. 1910
There were the strange sounds of the town, and the repeated chiming of the big church bells, so much harsher and more insistent than the little bells of Cossethay.
D. H. Lawrence,The Rainbow, The Viking Press, New York, 1915, p. 426
PLACE: Great Britain
TIME: ca. 1910
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