...love at all. And as for Nettie, she loved, I know, not me but those gentle mysteries. It was not my voice should rouse her dreams to passion… So our l... ... and faint and dim, and over it all the domed serenity of that wonder- ful luminous night. For a little while this realization stunned my mind. My tho... ...the hill, was of a dark compressed life be- neath a very high and wide and luminous evening sky, against which these pit-wheels rose. And ruling the c... ...shortened to nothing, so that it had rather the form of a bellying puff of luminous smoke with an intenser, brighter heart. It rose a hot yellow color... ... abroad; I and my little cracked voice drifted solitary through the silent mysteries. Sometimes I argued as I have told, sometimes I tumbled along in ... ...nd with some wonderful change in its outline, and now with a strange, less luminous, greener disk upon it that grew with its growth, the umbra of the ... ...s heart of brightness out, and at last it would be the whole sky, a sky of luminous green clouds, with a white brightness about the horizon, west and ... ...there in the east, would come again the red discoloring curtain over these mysteries, the finite world again, the gray and growing harsh certainties o... ...deeply into my mind that I verily believe, when at last I face the greater mysteries that lie beyond this life, when the things of this life fade from...

...hem under the forward lug peered the black face of the man whose eyes were luminous in the dark. As I stared at them, they met my gaze; and then first... ...for this secrecy; and by some odd leap in my thoughts the pointed ears and luminous eyes of Montgomery’s attendant came back again before me with the ... ...t to you! I might have thought. Anyhow, it will give you an inkling of our—mysteries. Whiskey?” “No, thanks; I’m an abstainer.” “I wish I’d been. But ... ...gh a bluish haze a tangle of trees and creepers, and above these again the luminous blue of the sky. Here and there a splash of white or crimson marke... ...flash in his eyes as he glanced at me from the shadow of the trees, a half-luminous colour that van- ished as he turned his head again. He was motionl... ...hed on. The colour vanished from the world. The tree-tops rose against the luminous blue sky in inky silhouette, and all below that outline melted int...

...s, for harmonies, For mastered discords, and the things Not vocable, whose mysteries Are inmost Love’s, Life’s reach of Life extend. Is it an anguish ... ...iew T ranscendent or subdued evoked T o speak the memorable, the true, The luminous as a moon uncloaked; For proof that there, among earth’s dumb, A s...

...walls. But here the masterpieces hang thick, and you seem to see them in a luminous atmosphere of their own. And the great saloons, with their superb ... ...some aw- ful Genius of Doubt and brooding behind his eternal mask upon the mysteries of life. We stood more than once in the little convent chambers w...

...oing, carries them along, rubs them up with one another. He takes from the luminous centre a handful of light, and scatters it broadcast among the dro... ...ar without learning, a juggler hoaxed by himself, an unbelieving priest of mysteries and dogmas, which he ex- pounds all the better for his want of fa...

...an romance, the mysterious, as any that the ingenuity of the author of the Mysteries of Udolpho could devise. For what can more partake of the mysteri... ...ay. But why? Is it because they somewhat savor of Holy Writ in its phrase “mysteries of iniquity”? If they do, such savor was far from being intended,... ...from within, though from a different source. The bonfire in his heart made luminous the rose- tan in his cheek. In view of the marked contrast between... ... everything but brute Force. 79 Herman Melville Chapter 25 T he night, so luminous on the spar-deck, but other wise on the cavernous ones below, leve... ...vernous ones below, levels so like the tiered galleries in a coal-mine—the luminous night passed away. But, like the prophet in the chariot disappeari...

...phases of civilization? “Is it to this time-honored spirit that we owe the mysteries lying buried in every human word? In the word T rue do we not dis... ...oves the abyss. In childhood, manhood, and old age we are always eager for mysteries in whatever form they present them- selves.” This predilection wa... ...aps this life of purely inward emotions helped him to see something of the mysteries he so entirely believed in! Our independence, our illicit amuseme... ... of his discoveries in magnetism, a sci- ence till then interred under the mysteries of Isis, of Delphi, of the cave of Trophonius, and rediscovered b... ... their truth. The marvelous gifts which the Church of Rome, jealous of all mysteries, punished with the stake, were, in Louis’ opinion, the result of ... ...f strong and energetic; I might become a power; I feel in myself a life so luminous that it might enlighten a world, and yet I am shut up in a sort of... ...ome long excursion in the vast fields of the intellect, and after the most luminous speculations, that I tumble, broken and weary, into this limbo. At...

...yelids in a way to heighten the light of his eye, which glittered with the luminous ferocity of a wolf skulking on the watch in a for- est. Under his ... ... a rigid and fanatical old man, whose duty it was to initiate her into the mysteries of religion. Hard- ened by the severities necessary against heret... ...and took pains to secularize it. She employed Beauvouloir to teach him the mysteries of natural science; she herself super- intended his studies, regu... ...he rocks before some spe- cies of algae, a moss, a seaweed, studying their mysteries; seeking perhaps a rhythm in their fragrant depths, like a bee it... ...contrast so grandly with those of earth, he discovered the meaning of many mysteries. Familiar from his cradle with the infinitude of those liquid fie...

...ell him a secret or two—one of the secrets of form, one of the sacrificial mysteries—though no doubt its career had been literary only in the sense of... ...que young women, but she had the highest confidence in Mrs. Ryves. She was luminous about her being a lady, and a lady who could bring Mrs. Bundy back... ...more, and he asked himself why he should be the sport of her moods and her mysteries. He perceived her knack of punctual interference to be striking, ...

...tion ablaze—if love begins in imagination. But I am no man to discuss such mysteries, and it strikes me that we have neglected poor old Nelson inflati... ...the curtain, with compressed, scheming lips, and no softness at all in her luminous eyes. He could not be allowed to sneak off scot free. Never—never!... ...r the silvery breaks of broad estuaries, under the great 49 Joseph Conrad luminous sky never softened, never veiled, and flooding the earth with the ... ...quat, with her stumpy dark spars naked like dead trees, raised against the luminous sky of that resplendent night, threw a heavy shadow on the lane of...

...en to twenty; and an old gentleman in a blouse, with no teeth to speak of, and a strong country accent. Quite the pick of Origny, I should suppose. Th... ...t be half-wakened by some church spire, by a leap- ing fish, or by a trail of river grass that clung about the paddle and had to be plucked off and th... ..., I look for my indulgence on the spot. 87 The Inland V oyage % # ! E MADE PRECY ABOUT SUNDOWN. The plain is rich with tufts o...

...ns burning faintly in the white smoke of blossom. Purple twigs were darkly luminous in the grey air, high hedges glowed like living shadows, hovering ... ...e something else.’ ‘But why? But why?’ she insisted, bending her wonderful luminous face to him. ‘Why isn’t it enough?’ ‘Because we can go one better,... ...faintly bright in the light of the lantern, and they stood together in one luminous union, close together and ringed round with light, all the rest ex... ...e boat. Oh, and the beauty of the subjection of his loins, white and dimly luminous as be climbed over the side of the boat, made her want to die, to ... ... side of the boat, made her want to die, to die. The beauty of his dim and luminous loins as be climbed into the boat, his back rounded and soft—ah, t... ... abhorrent to them both. They were implicated with each other in abhorrent mysteries. ‘How many scratches have you?’ he asked, showing his hard forear... ... after the death of the creative spirit. He realised that there were great mysteries to be unsealed, sensual, mind- less, dreadful mysteries, far beyo... ...nly his strange, strained attention gave way, he could not attend to these mysteries any more. There was another way, the way of free- dom. There was ... ...onviction, suckled in a creed outworn, and condemned to the reiteration of mysteries that were not divine to her. Yet there was no escape. She was a l...

...ignoire, with the gaze of a neophyte about to be initiated into the sacred mysteries. Darrow placed himself behind her, that he might catch her profil... ... rooms each holding its sepa- rate secret. The nearness of all these other mysteries enclosing theirs gave Darrow a more intimate sense of the girl’s ... ...ng her for a few minutes Miss Summers perceived that she had somehow grown luminous, perilous, obscurely menacing to nice girls and the young men they... ...liding in emerald streaks along the tree-boles, gathered itself into great luminous blurs at the end of the wood-walks, and hung above the fields a wa... ... she walked at Darrow’s side her imagination flew back and forth, spinning luminous webs of feeling between herself and the scene about her. Every hei... ...its harmonious length, the soberness of its lines softened to grace in the luminous misty air. Darrow stood still, and Anna felt that his glance was t... ...en them, yet seeing them through a kind of radiance, as though love were a luminous medium into which she had been bodily plunged. She was glad now th... ...me when she had feared to look life in the face, and had been blind to the mysteries and contradictions of the human heart because her own had not bee...

...he light; and the houses, dark, silent, impenetrable as they seem, hide no mysteries. Life is almost wholly in the open air; every household sits at i... ...ove anything,” said Monsieur des Grassins; “the old miser is always making mysteries.” “Des Grassins, my friend, I have invited the young man to dinne... ...t- est noise, now lost its decaying aspect in the eyes of Eugenie. It grew luminous; it had a voice and spoke to her; it was young like herself, —youn... ...l. You ought to kiss me on the eyelids for telling you the secrets and the mysteries of the life and death of money. Yes, silver and gold live and swa... ...prayer seemed to purify her and refine those homely features and make them luminous. Who has not seen the phenomenon of a like transfiguration on sacr... ..., through religion, through faith in the future. Love explained to her the mysteries of eternity. Her heart and the Gospel taught her to know two worl... ...ll, I am delighted; she is a good girl. But,” added Charles, struck with a luminous idea, “she must be rich?” “She had,” said the president, with a mi...

...scope, on which radium particles impinge upon sulphide of zinc and make it luminous, induced him to associate the two sets of phenom- ena. It was a ha... ...lled Paris and the Seine and the warm, overcast evening and the beautiful, luminous organisation of the War Control…. She drew herself a little way up... ...ontact of the two forces. I saw it quite plainly in silhouette against the luminous blue of the northern sky. The allied aeroplanes—they were mostly F... ... sky would be searched by scores of lights, and the admirable Leblanc gave luminous reasons for their camping just where they were and going on with t... ...ly exaggerated by the accidents of po- litical separation. This now became luminously plain. An enormous proportion of the force that sustained armame... ...square miles of ocean no ship ever traversed except by mischance. Into the mysteries of the solid globe under his feet he had not yet pierced for five...

...il heel! There among the conscious arbours Sounds of soft tumultuous wail, Mysteries of love, melodious, Came upon the lyric gale! Breathings of a dee... ...torm, Conscious of that divine debate, withheld Its fierce emotion, in the luminous gloom Of those so dark irradiating eyes! Beneath whose wavering lu... ...w loveliness. The ‘What has been’ a moment seemed his own: The splendours, mysteries, dearer because known, Nor less divine: Love’s inmost sacredness... ...ink instruction, or instil, Run the woods like vernal sap, Crying, hail to luminousness! But have care. In yourself may lurk the trap: On conditions t... ...e and disease, The deeper chord of a wonderful instrument. XI So passed he luminous-eyed for earth and the fates We arm to bruise or caress us: his e... ...ON—ATTEMPTED IN THE GALLIAMBIC MEASURE At the coming up of Phoebus the all-luminous charioteer, Double-visaged stand the mountains in imperial multitu... ...this body be, That admired of thee stood rose-warm in the courts where thy mysteries Celebration had from me, me the most splendidly privileged! Never... ...Still forceful of her fountain-jet. So shall her blows be shrewdly met, Be luminously read the scene Where Life is at her grindstone set, That she may... ...s, for harmonies, For mastered discords, and the things Not vocable, whose mysteries Are inmost Love’s, Life’s reach of Life extend. Is it an anguish ...

...t Louis Stevenson slowly; plentiful hurrying clouds – some dragging veils of straight rain-shower, others massed and luminous as though promising snow... ...sterous. How, in this well-wooded district, I should have been so long in finding one, is an- other of the insoluble mysteries of this day’s adventure... ...change- ful. Oak-trees clung along the hills, well grown, wealthy in leaf, and touched by the autumn with strong and luminous colours. Here and there ...

...tattered and scattered Principia, seemed dim and dull in contrast with the luminous stir of the early March evening outside. An unusual sense of the g... ...dispose of that before I go on, or you will be inattentive. London has its mysteries, but this strange gloss on his linen! “Cheap laundresses always m... ...In the dark- 58 Love and Mr. Lewisham ness on the table something faintly luminous, a greenish- white patch, stirred and hopped slowly among the dim ... ...s. This wasn’t falling on your head, Mr. Medium, was it? This—this was the luminous hand!” 60 Love and Mr. Lewisham CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XII CHAPTER X... ... fringed along either shore, and with drift-ice in the middle reflecting a luminous scarlet from the broad red setting sun, and moving steadily , ince... ...e thing—that impulse is part of me, is it not? Ah! My brain reels at these mysteries! Lord! what 120 Love and Mr. Lewisham flimsy fluctuating things ...

...house, fussing about with charcoal, lumps of teak, moss, and all the other mysteries of the orchid culti- vator. He considered he was having a wonderf... ... with its mushroom dome, the slopes plunge steeply downward into the black mysteries of the tropical forest beneath. The little house in which the obs... ...t four hours. Then with a sigh he re- signed himself to his watch upon the mysteries of space. There was no sound now in the observatory, and the lan-... ...le powdered, so it seemed, with an innumerable multitude of stars, and all luminous against the blackness of its setting. As he watched he seemed to h... ... aperture of the roof. In another moment the slit was clear again, and the luminous haze of the Milky Way shone warm and bright. The interior of the r... ...verything was black except the parallelogram of the blue skylight with the luminous dust of stars, against which the end of the tele- scope now appear... ...ish, faintly glowing, came darting round me—and things that seemed made of luminous glass; and I passed through a tangle of seaweeds that shone with a... ...one by one, and the moon grew greener and darker, and the seaweed became a luminous purple-red. It was all very faint and mysterious, and everything s... ...he middle works of the gunboat towards the bank, to the black overwhelming mysteries of forest, lit now and then by a fire-fly, and never still from t...

...n could not have seen the blue- checked cotton curtains which screened the mysteries of the room from profane eyes. Now and then the watcher, weary of... ...rgy; but when he recovered his calmness, so easily upset, it beamed with a luminous grace which gave great attractiveness to a countenance in which jo...