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...ness of the house as into a place of shelter, and lay long upon my bed, pondering these mysteries. It was late when I again woke, and I leaped into my... ...f it gratified his ear. He shut his eyes, and her image sprang up before him, qui- etly luminous and attended with good thoughts. The river might run ...

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...on twisting patterns that made phantoms in the air. Any natural light -- luminous algae and eels -- died quickly. And no matter how much sorcerous... ...r. The scene told absolute, ennobling truths and evoked deep, intriguing mysteries. Most of all, the terrible might offered the challenges of powe...

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...tion. I had published in France a work in quarto, in two volumes, entitled Mysteries of the Great Submarine Grounds. This book, highly approved of in ... ...adiation must have been pro- duced by an agent of great shining power. The luminous part traced on the sea an immense oval, much elongated, the centre... ... then making fourteen knots, and enveloped it with its electric rings like luminous dust. Then it moved away two or three miles, leaving a phos- phore... ... dis- pelled by the phosphorescence caused by our movements. I watched the luminous waves that broke over my hand, whose mirror-like surface was spott... .... Our prison was suddenly lighted, that is to say, it became filled with a luminous matter, so strong that I could not bear it at first. In its whiten... .... After shutting my eyes invol- untarily, I opened them, and saw that this luminous agent came from a half globe, unpolished, placed in the roof of th... ...e draw- ing-room were opened, and we were never tired of pen- etrating the mysteries of the submarine world. The general direction of the Nautilus was... ...n that Vigo Bay; and it rests with yourself whether you will penetrate its mysteries.” The Captain rose, telling me to follow him. I had had time to r...

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...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...

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...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...

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...ve the gloom of the low- lands the snowy peaks of the Cordilleras remained luminous and crimson for a long time. The soldiers before marching back to ... ...s of angels which visited his couch; for Gaspar Ruiz was instructed in the mysteries of his religion, and had even been taught to read and write a lit... ...ey rocks, the brown fields, the purple, undulating distances harmonized in luminous ac- cord, exhaled already the scents of the evening. The two figur... .... Our friend went forward in the warm gloom, his eyes fixed upon a distant luminous region extending nearly across the whole width of the Villa, as if... ...as if in a bath of some radiant and tenuous fluid shed upon their heads by luminous globes, drifted in its hundreds round the band. Hundreds more sat ...

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... so swingingly set forth, in such dramatic language, and illustrated here and there by such luminous bits of acting, that they could only lose in any ... ... light lying flatly along the top of it, so that against a dark background it seemed almost luminous. There was a great bush over the thicket (for, in... ...the broad country! the interlinked hills! the secret valleys! Oh to lose myself among their mysteries! I hurried into the midst, and came back without...

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...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...

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...with knowl- edge. You must treat with an understanding consider- ation the mysteries of her feminine nature, and then she will stand by you faithfully... .... With every daybreak the rising sun had to wade through a crimson stream, luminous and sinister, like the spilt blood of celestial bodies murdered du... ..., he looked piratical and monkish and darkly initiated into the most awful mysteries of the sea. XLIII ANYWAY, he was perfect, as Dona Rita had declar...

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...nd took an uncut book from the high desk. “Here is some sort of Key to the Mysteries that your Heloise has sent you. Religious! I don’t interfere with... ... But Julie did not flatter her friend, the princess’ eyes— large, deep and luminous (it seemed as if at times there radi- ated from them shafts of war... ... little wife. The princess pondered awhile with a thoughtful smile and her luminous eyes lit up so that her face was entirely trans- formed. Then she ... ... rather read the Epistles and Gos- pels. Let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries they contain; for how can we, miserable sinners that we are, know... ... brother, and through her tears the loving, warm, gentle look of her large luminous eyes, very beautiful at that moment, rested on Prince Andrew’s fac...

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...e camp fire and joined them. The cabin In a Far Country 29 was one of the many mysteries which lurk in the vast recesses of the North. Built when and ... ...at stirs. Your eyes are like a deer’s eyes now as you look at me.” And El Soo, luminous and melting, bent and kissed Akoon. “When we reach the Mackenz... ...He could sit for hours gazing at a solitary flower and philosophizing about the mysteries and riddles of being. A blue heron on a tiny crescent of sand... ...been placed the mark of the beast. They sat, flower garlanded, in the perfumed, luminous night, and their lips made uncouth noises and their throats ra... ...dom of the stars. What engines and elements and mastered forces, what lore and mysteries and destiny controls, might be there! Undoubtedly, since so m...

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...he alert, and had summoned Urquiza from T rujillo. By some means, not very luminously stated, and by paying proper fees in proper quarters, Kate was s... ...y!—to whom? Revenge!—for what? Ask not, whisper not. Look upwards to other mysteries. In the very region of his temples, driving itself downwards into... ..., when some brilliant skirmishings of the Aurora are exhibiting, or even a luminous arch, which is a broad ribbon of snowy light that spans the skies,... ...st public credit. But most readers will be aware of similar appeals to the mysteries of 243 Thomas de Quincey Providence, made in public by illustrio... ...y philosophy of Paganism, and its slight root in the terrors or profounder mysteries of spiritual nature, no comparison could be sus- tained for a mom... ... human sensibilities, to a depth below the surface. If cold could give out mysteries of suffer- *‘Harry Gill:’—Many readers, in this generation, may n...

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...ud, moveless along one of the upper pastures, and still dense enough to be luminous in sunlight, was the last of the mist. They watched it lying in th... ... not ex- ist. He spied into himself, and set it down to one among the many mysteries. Men uninstructed in analysis of motives arrive at this dan- gero... ...ured places in the libraries, to examine and see the sim- plicity of these mysteries, which it would be here and there a saving grace for them to see;...

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...dead, The murky night morning of wonder and fable inscrutable, The envelop’d mysteries, the old and unknown hive bees, The north, the sweltering south... ... confine—not the Western sky alone—the high meridian—North, South, all, Pure luminous color fighting the silent shadows to the last. TWENTY Y EARS Dow...

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.... Thus the mind and the attention of the captain were concentrated on that luminous circle where, without perhaps knowing it herself, the young girl w... ...ined to repress. If the sensibili- ties of the surgeon who probes into the mysteries of the hu- man body end by growing callous, what becomes of those...

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...iness is still on its way ‘twixt heaven and earth, now seeketh for lodging a luminous soul: with 147 Friedrich Nietzsche happiness hath all light now... ...s to ourselves, and to smile uncloudedly:— —Uncloudedly to smile down out of luminous eyes and out of miles of distance, when under us constraint and ... ...d heaven, rather will I sit in the abyss without heaven, than see thee, thou luminous heaven, tainted with passing clouds! And oft have I longed to pi... ...ver, am a blesser and a Yea-sayer, if thou be but around me, thou pure, thou luminous heaven! Thou abyss of light!—into all abysses do I then carry my... ...golden bar; the prince proposeth, but the shopman— disposeth! By all that is luminous and strong and good in thee, O Zarathustra! Spit on this city of... ...t falls into the hands of the uniniti- ated. The title suggests all kinds of mysteries; a glance at the chapter-headings quickly confirms the suspicio...

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...e in half sleep, Their swords upon their iron knees, Brood her high lonely mysteries. A POET TO HIS BELOVED I BRING you with reverent hands The books ... ...ones and thorn trees, under morning light; Until a curlew cried and in the luminous wind A curlew answered; and suddenly thereupon I thought That on t... ...awn breath When it was forged. In Sato’s house, Curved like new moon, moon luminous It lay five hundred years. Yet if no change appears No moon; only a... ...use, A sycamore and lime tree lost in night Although that western cloud is luminous, Great works constructed there in nature’s spite For scholars and ... ...and Blind Man stole the bread Cuchulain fought the ungovernable sea; Heart mysteries there, and yet when all is said It was the dream itself enchanted... ...if I Have lit upon a woman who so shares Your thirst for those old crabbed mysteries, So strains to look beyond Our life, an eye That never knew that ...

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...nd took an uncut book from the high desk. “Here is some sort of Key to the Mysteries that your Heloise has sent you. Religious! I don’t interfere with... .... But Julie did not flatter her friend, the princess’ eyes—large, deep and luminous (it seemed as if at times there radiated from them shafts of warm ... ... little wife. The princess pondered awhile with a thoughtful smile and her luminous eyes lit up so that her face was entirely transformed. Then she su... ...us rather read the Epistles and Gospels. Let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries they con- tain; for how can we, miserable sinners that we are, kn... ... brother, and through her tears the loving, warm, gentle look of her large luminous eyes, very beautiful at that moment, rested on Prince Andrew’s fac... ...ater. Princess Mary had long since put aside her book: she sat silent, her luminous eyes fixed on her nurse’s wrinkled face (every line of which she k... .... Prince Andrew looked at his sister. In the dim shadow of the curtain her luminous eyes shone more brightly than usual from the tears of joy that wer... ...the confidence of many highly placed persons, had been initiated into many mysteries, had been raised to a higher grade, and was bringing back with hi... ...g, with a written speech in his hand, “it is not sufficient to observe our mysteries in the seclusion of our lodge— we must act—act! We are drowsing, ...