Giants in the Earth Quotes

The father tended to the cattle. First he lifted the yoke off the oxen and turned them loose; then he milked Rosie and let her go also. After that he made up a bed for the whole family under the wa...

At first it seemed utterly impossible to her; but then she thought of how desolate and lonesome everything was here and of what a comfortable companion Rosie might be on dark evenings and during th...

Now he saw what the dream had meant that he had had the other night; he had seen both Joseph and Benjamin playing just beyond the house; and with them had been a tiny little fellow, who wasn't ment...

House and barn under the same roof?... She said no more, but fell into deep and troubled thought… Man and beast in one building? How could one live that way? (1.2.8.13)

In all the years they had lived together it had never happened till now that she had shamed him before others. (1.3.3.14)

And they had Tönseten, too, and his wife Kjersti, both of them used to America. Why they could talk the language and everything… (1.1.4.7)

But Syvert had every reason to be in the lead; his house had been all ready to move into when they had arrived. That little stable which he had built wasn't more than a decent day's work for an abl...

If he only had paid some attention to Hans Olsa, who for a long while had insisted on waiting for him. But he had overruled all their objections; it was entirely his own doing that Hans Olsa and th...