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...ting possibilities and the attaching wonderments, not to say the insoluble mysteries, thick- ened apace. Why had one to look so straight in the face a... ...e, she probably couldn’t have given the key to these felicities. They were mysteries of which her friends were conscious—those friends whose general e... ...It might have represented possibly, with its involved loneliness and other mysteries, the weight under which she fancied her companion’s admirable hea... ...it would be somewhere in Gibbon—were apparently not questioned about their mysteries. But oh poor Milly and hers! Susan at all events proved scarce mo... ...hall you do?” “For the moment simply enjoy it. Enjoy”—Milly was completely luminous—”having got out of my scrape.” “Learning, you mean, so easily, tha... ... wise, but the fact of the idea as directly applied, as con- verted from a luminous conception into an historic truth. He had known it before but as d... ...s true, these considerations, to a degree of eventual peace, for what they luminously amounted to was that he was to do nothing, and that fell in afte...

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...ch seeks to give, in the lucid transparency of our beautiful language, the luminous poesy of the Orient, to you the blame! Did you not command this st... ...reams the burning communications of the Spirit? “Speed thy way through the luminous spheres; behold, ad- mire, hasten! Flying thus thou canst pause or... ...is Love. Am I awake? Do I still sleep? Are these the eyes before which the luminous space retreated further and further indefinitely while the eyes fo... ...a’s salon. The mysterious creature seemed to him the radiating centre of a luminous circle which formed an atmosphere about her wider than that of oth... ...upon my lips, and I myself have become the involun- tary minister of these mysteries. You see me here to-night, for the hundredth time, bruised, defea... ... not elements. In another, he goes in a few words to the heart of magnetic mysteries and de- prives Mesmer of the honors of a first knowledge of them.... ...ds and her brow is strewn with stars; she walks environed with a white and luminous atmosphere; her voice is accompanied by music; she has the gift of... ...d of ideas, let religions accumulate images and be- liefs, revelations and mysteries, you must face at last this ter- rible dilemma and choose between... ...His poem infinite, His love immutable, His science sure and darkened by no mysteries. Be anxious for nothing, He will give you all. Yes, in His heart ...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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, ...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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... 2 2 For a long time as it seemed the bishop remained wrapped in clouds of luminous meditation. Dream or vision it did not matter; the essential thing... ... and initiated her by a whole collection of pretty costume plates into the mysteries of the “Ussian Ballet” and the works of Mousso’gski and “Imsky Ko... ...ases and quality of the experience were different. He felt once again that luminous confusion between the world in which a human life is imprisoned an... ...e of scene, no magic and melodramatic drawing back of the curtain from the mysteries; the water and the bridge, the ragged black trees, and a distant ... ...s- pered, gripping the seat and frowning at the water; “myster- ies remain mysteries; but that is the reality of religion. And now, now, what is my pl... ...ow he saw that it must mean this—or be no more than fetishism, Obi, Orphic mysteries or ceremonies of Demeter, a legacy of mental dirtiness, a residue...

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..., and with great art, the things of life; he initiated her slowly into the mysteries of the high- est society; he taught her the genealogies of noble ... ... of men who strike your mind as you pass them, and who, in a salon, make a luminous spot to which all eyes are attracted. He makes himself remarked al... ...whom success is, as it were, stolen; who go their way dashing at a hundred luminous points, and settling upon none, exhausting at last the good-will o... ...r knowledge, I must entreat you to do so. I need a few days to search into mysteries which you don’t perceive; and, above all, I must act cautiously. ...

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...iery, impetuous nature of her mistress. She alone was initi- ated into the mysteries of a soul rich with enthusiasm, into the secret emotions of a bei... ...h touched the dark floor and furniture of the smoke-blackened cottage with luminous points. The little boy had lifted his pretty head inquisitively, a... ...mits or downward to the valleys. The moonlight was now envelop- ing like a luminous mist the valley of Couesnon. Certainly a woman whose heart was bur... ...* Mademoiselle de V erneuil was absorbed in one of those medi- tations the mysteries of which are buried in the soul, and prove by their thousand cont... ...n, his arms crossed, and his eyes fixed on the windows which rose like the luminous eyes of a phantom above the rampart. The 260 The Chouans deep sil... ...ew all sacred institutions. Religious ceremonies then had the savor of the mysteries. Children were baptized in the chambers where the mothers 268 Th...

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...ing animal with bandy legs;’ yet also a Spirit, and unutterable Mystery of Mysteries.” 42 Sartor Resartus CHAPTER IX ADAMITISM Let no courteous reade... ...f Quack- ery, Priestcraft, Kingcraft, and the innumerable other crafts and mysteries of that genus, had not ranked in Productive Industry at all! Can ... ...ground, and shoot upwards, cleaving the liquid deeps, till it dwindle to a luminous star: but what is there to look longer on, when once, by natural e... ...eror Tarakwang, and the “White Water-roses” (Chinese Carbonari) with their mysteries, no notice here! Of Napo- leon himself we shall only, glancing fr... ...lls, and supernal and infernal prodigies, which, in the case of the Jewish Mysteries, have also more than once scared back the Alien? Be this as it ma...

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...loft the Jewel. And the Jewel was of great size and purity, round, and all-luminous, throw- ing rays and beams everywhere about it, a miracle to be- h... ...pes! Wallaby! a drop of the waters of Paravid upon their lips might reveal mysteries, and guide me to the Sword of my seeking.’ So, as he considered h... ...of the Roc.’ Then they heard her say, ‘And it is thy will we teach him the mysteries of the Sword, and that which may be done with it?’ And they heard... ...yes, Shagpat. So, at the hour when he was revealed to Shibli Bagarag, made luminous by the beams of Aklis, Kadza went to an inner chamber, and greased... ...ess of honour presented to him by the Seven Sons, charactered with all the mysteries of Aklis, a marvel lost to men in the failure to master the Illus...

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... the dia- grams. “Stinks?” said Stalky interrogatively. Then his face grew luminous with delight. “By gum! I’ve got it. Horrid stinks! T urkey!” He le... ...ys, it dawned on Prout that he moved in an atmosphere of perpetual ambush. Mysteries hedged him on all sides, warnings ran before his heavy feet, and ... ...erefore was Stalky not broken publicly?” said the Infant, with a large and luminous leer. “Ah, wherefore?” said Abanazar. “To give him a chance to ret...

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...o lengthened to explain here. Indeed, I dare do no more than hint at these mysteries of feminine emo- tion. I beg you to believe that when we are deal... ...g pressure, and walked on, silent as a man who has faced one of the veiled mysteries of life. It struck a full human blow on his heart, dragging him o... ...consequence.” 136 Sandra Belloni The pitiable mortal became a trifle more luminous: “The objection is to the repetition of risked phrases. A happy au... ...ish hearers, as if this piece of shrewd ac- quaintance with the expressive mysteries of their language placed them upon equal terms. It was really ‘a ... ...ve no idea of what is done. Water, salt, white thorns, and other Carbonaro mysteries may be in use or not: I think no worse of the cause, whatever is ... ... a bad shot in Bella’s letter,” he thought. Shop-lights were ahead: a very luminous chemist sent a green ray into the darkness. Wilfrid fixed himself ... ...acterized as a singular couple. T o combat this he drew around him all the mysteries of sentiment that had issued from her voice and her eyes. She had... ... that there was haply some plot to be worked out. The open space was quite luminous in the middle of those three deep walls of shadow. Emilia enjoined...

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...s the cook had fed her little Cesar well, and had explained to him certain mysteries of Parisian life, which she made him look at from the bottom; and... ... of his angel, less to purchase handkerchiefs than to communicate to her a luminous idea. “If you should have need of perfumery, Mademoiselle, I could... ... to Celestin. “Monsieur,” said Anselme Popinot, over whose dejected brow a luminous light flashed suddenly, “madame, do me the honor to grant me the h... ...f Nature herself, who knows no past, who begins afresh, at every hour, the mysteries of her untir- ing travail. Feeble existences, like that of Birott...

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...ved nor feared nor passionately loved,—a web of iridescent threads. He had luminous final theories about Love and Death and Immortality, odd matters t... ...ack bonnet over one eye and an ostentatiously clean apron outside the dark mysteries that clothed her, or the cheeky little ruffians who yelled papers... ...ers with remote coast towns shining dimly, waters that merged at last in a luminous golden haze, made a broad panoramic spectacle. It was as if one su... ...he hunched sky-line of Doulton’s potteries, and a kiln flared redly. Dimly luminous trams were gliding amidst a dotted line of lamps, and two little t... ...e. My sleeping peer in the library at Stam- ford Court and Evesham talking luminously behind the Hartstein flowers embodied the devil, and my replete ... ... little shadows spreading by impercep- tible degrees across that vivid and luminous cell. 8 8 8 8 8 The Handitch election flung me suddenly into promi...

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...o form a just opinion on the facts of this matter, which are buried in the mysteries of private life. One circumstance alone seems to give color to th... ...elf,— “a man who dines at Gondreville and spends the night at Cinq-Cygnes! Mysteries indeed!” “Well?” cried the circle around Mademoiselle Beauvisage ... ..., and his masterly power of initiating them into the difficult and elegant mysteries of Parisian society were powerful reasons to bind the two women t... ...oth- ing. But, as you can easily understand, the thought of Marianina is a luminous point to which my eye is forever attached. Shall I love her? Shall... ...ear monsieur, we are almost at the end of all 166 The Deputy of Arcis our mysteries, and soon, I hope, you will see that you have no cause to complai... ...” “Yes; but I confess that faith begins to stagger under the weight of the mysteries with which it is loaded down with- out relief.” “Seeing you at th...

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...s eyes and then receded to an incred- ible distance. His face seemed to be luminous. “Miss Beau- mont,” he said, and splashed up a spray of suspicion.... ...ill glowed yellow and warm. It was the first time Hoopdriver bad dared the mysteries of a ‘first-class’ hotel.’ But that night he was in the mood to d...