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...ou at least knew somebody who knew his father and mother? To the peasants of old times, the world outside their own direct experience was a region of vagueness and mystery: to their untraveled thought a state of wandering was a conception as dim as the winter life of the swallows that came back with the spring; and even a settler, if he came from distant parts, hardly ever...

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...f old times, the world outside their own direct experience was a region of vagueness and mystery: to their untraveled thought a state of wandering was...

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... the beginning, had so communicated and interfused their several and joint vaguenesses, that at last no man knew or cared to know what any other man i...

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...ll alone, from its semi-cylindrical front, projected a glow upon the dusky vagueness of the Common, and as I passed it I heard in the hot stillness th... ...hadn’t been near her for ages. The measure of that neglect was given by my vagueness of mind about Jasper. However, I really belonged nowadays to a di... ... that.” “That young man, I suppose, particularly.” And then as I feigned a vagueness: “The handsome one who sits there. 33 Henry James Didn’t you tel...

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... which his elabo- rate fancy brooded, and which grew, touch by touch, into vagueness at which I shuddered the more thrillingly, because I shuddered kn...

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... not helped to do by the more and more confirmed appearance that the great vagueness cast- ing the long shadow in which he had lived had, to attest 2... ...matter beside. It all hung to- gether; they were subject, he and the great vagueness, to an equal and indivisible law. When the possibilities themselv...

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...sfied, 36 The Point of View indignant; it is evidently scolding me for my vagueness. My vagueness, indeed, dear Harvard! I loathe their hor- rible ar...

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... that burned pale in the dusk not yet established. It was into the con- venience of this quiet twilight that a gentleman on the doorstep of the Chambe... ... the degree of properness. CHAPTER XV She never knew afterwards quite what she had done to settle it, and at the time she only knew that they pres- en... ...some of them. She’s too outrageously beautiful.” Mrs. Jordan continued to gaze. “Outrageously?” “Well, yes; deliciously.” What was really delicious wa...

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...any great holiday he wanders about quite lost, and seeking, as much out of vagueness as for want of patience, the sheet by which he cheats an hour of ... ...; you have a sacred relic round your neck.” Madame Crochard, with a feeble vagueness which seemed to show that she had not all her wits about her, pul...

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...pathy. Mrs. Saltram had made her acquaintance through mutual friends. This vagueness caused me to feel how much I was out of it and how large an indep... ...iews, so far at least as that term may be applied to views viti- ated by a vagueness really infantine. A little learning’s a dangerous thing, and a go...

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...g he had believed during the rest of his descent. He saw, in its great grey glimmering margin, the central vagueness diminish, and he felt it to be ta...

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...ed on anatomical study is of course per- meated with the suggestion of the vagueness and instability of biological species. A biological species is qu... ... turn your implement towards the final absolute truth of things. This real vagueness of class terms is equally true whether we consider those terms us... ...ical sciences and those dealing with lifeless sub- stance, in the relative vagueness, the insubordinate looseness and inaccuracy of the former. The na... ...out can be presented only by parables. But the unapproachable distance and vagueness of these things makes them none the less necessary, just as a clo...

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...ainter during the few minutes when he was still under the influence of the vagueness that the shock had produced in his ideas, “my mother and I heard ...

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...d him awkwardly. “You listened too much to Mrs. Dangerfield.” He feigned a vagueness. “To Mrs. Dangerfield?” “That woman you were always sitting with;...

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...of the conscious smile which seemed a reference to the lady’s expensive identity, it was not the fault of this demonstration, which had, in a sort, bo...

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...om this very accumulation he manages to derive that sin- gular gigantesque vagueness—differing from the poetic vague, but ranking next to it—which I h...

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...eloquence and presence of mind were needful. And if it should be said that vagueness was not altogether the least eligible feature in a speech whose v... ...nfuse, and to leave no room for answer, we reply—true; but then it was the vagueness of art, which promised to be serviceable, and that of preconcerte... ...h promised to be serviceable, and that of preconcerted perplexity, not the vagueness of incoherence, and a rhapsody of utter contra- diction. 8 91 Th...

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...pendously opposite, and with the great hum of Paris coming up in softness, vagueness- for Strether himself indeed already positive sweetness— through ... ...hort, at her tone, before her; then, though seeing that it represented not vagueness, but a momen- tary embarrassed fulness, let his exclamation come.... ... widow then?” “I haven’t the least idea!” They once more, in spite of this vagueness, exchanged a look—a look that was per- haps the longest yet. It s... ...hing at the single stroke of which—and wasn’t it simply juxtaposition?—all vagueness vanished. It was the click of a spring—he saw the truth. He had b... ...ed costumed school repertory, and in especial of all mysteries of race and vagueness of reference, all swagger about “home,” among their variegated ma... ...e left the object vague; and he was struck with the tact, the taste of her vagueness, which simply took for granted in him a sense of beautiful things... ...eased Mrs. Pocock the more by it. “Well, Mr. Strether—!” she murmured with vagueness, yet with sharpness, while her crimson spot burned a trifle brigh... ...e dark, for the way he had 380 The Ambassadors dressed the possibility in vagueness, as a little girl might have dressed her doll. He had made them—a... ...t of their own—momentarily pull it for him, the pos- sibility, out of this vagueness; and must he not therefore take it now as they had had simply, wi...

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...rt pleaded, feeling, and without resentment, that the General at least was vagueness itself about that. But he wondered a little why, expressing this ...

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...te the hotel a tall wooden church-spire, painted white, rose high into the vagueness of the snow-flakes. The lady at the window looked at it for some ... ...hat was her little circle? His ideas about her marriage had a good deal of vagueness; but they were in so far definite as that he felt it to be a matt...

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...alked about again, 50 The Wings of the Dove only again to repeat both the vagueness and the vivacity. Distinctly he was a man either with nothing at ... ...ris, but not of its higher sides, and fond almost of nothing else; but the vagueness, the openness, the eagerness without point and the interest witho... ...re general appearances from which the girl’s own aspect, her really larger vagueness, seemed rather to disconnect itself. The nearest approach to a pe... ...h noting of his own sequences and neglecting of hers, had duly kept up the vagueness, they might have struck themselves, or may at least strike us, as... ...he let them freely follow: they rested largely, in her vague- ness, on the vagueness of other visitors; they attached themselves in especial, with mix... ...le to gainsay it without bringing it more to the proof than tenderness and vagueness could permit. Nothing in fact came to the proof between them but ... ...ly stare for it—which he as promptly saw. So he turned off as he could his vagueness. “And yet I oughtn’t to be.” Which sounded indeed vaguer still. S...