Absolutely the Master, examples from Edwin Way Teale's writings

Green imprinted on silver, a line of delicate pawprints lead across the dew-laden grass in the dawn. (Walk 154)

Branches were down, some completely buried beneath the snow. (Circle 14)

The first thing I see is a hunting fox, a red fox mousing among the grass clumps of Firefly Meadow. (Walk 19)

Less than two months passed before the gray squirrel, its fear apparently forgotten, was back nosing among the grass clumps and the small birds were back at their feeding. (Walk 308)

The bluejay we have noticed for almost a fortnight, a sick bird growing weaker and thinner and more inactive as the days have passed. (Walk 383)

It is while I am leaning against one of the swampside trees, listening to the sounds of the wind—the wind hissing through the dry phragmites, the wind booming in the maples—that I become aware of the return of the starlings. (Circle 21)

Late one night, in the jungle, he awoke dripping with sweat, tangled up in his mosquito bar, one hand bruised and bloody. (Circle 34)

The last I saw of him he was walking nonchalantly across to one of the metal posts at the side of the concourse, lifting his forepaws high and stretching—a city cat trying to sharpen his claws on a metal tree. (Circle 8)

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