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... offerings to God, are they not likewise of- fered to love in this poem of luminous flowers murmuring their sadness to the heart, cherishing its hidde... ...fe! Long have I sought the meaning of this enigma. I have ran- sacked many mysteries, I have discovered the reason of many natural laws, the purport o... ...in my whole being, when I lived in that soul to which I strove to send the luminous breeze of the mornings and the hope of the crimsoned evenings, tha... ...own nourishment, the other exuding her soul, wrapping her dear ones in her luminous atmosphere; the one quick and slender; the other slow and massive.... ... surface of the globe, small indeed among that crowd, hurrying beneath the luminous spaces which light them; but what sense of humiliation could equal... ... sufferings you have caused me the last two months.” “Henriette, there are mysteries in the life of men of which you know nothing. I met you at an age... ...you? will God punish a poor woman for seek- ing the divine? Your great and luminous heart so resembles the heavens that I am like the gnats which flut...

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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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...t the headland they stood for a space by the seat that looks into the dark mysteries of Blackapit, and then he sat down. Isbister had resumed his talk... ...n the lull, I passed in great shining curves steeper and steeper up into a luminous haze. Wher- ever the snow-spangled light struck down, beams and gi... ...that crawled amidst these places. He stretched a huge black arm across the luminous pic- ture, and showed the room whence Graham had escaped, and acro... ...er of Ostrog’s headquarters from the Wind-Vane buildings. For the rest the luminous expanse was undisturbed. So vast was its serenity in comparison wi... ..., lingered in his mind. The bright-eyed lady was still struggling with the mysteries of Eadhamite when he perceived the girl he had seen in the theatr... ...rds him; he saw her first before she saw him. She was dressed in a faintly luminous grey, her dark hair about her brows was like a cloud, and as he sa... ...th the flying stages, to learn there when retreat was hopeless the ancient mysteries of warfare. And overhead save for a few sharpshooters upon the ro...

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...a bottomless pit of intense light. The circular sheet of water reflected a luminous sky, and the shores enclosing it made an opaque ring of earth floa... ...g sun entering the yard between the outhouses ruled the heavy shadows with luminous streaks. Over the ma- nure heap floated a mist, opal-tinted and od... ... to him he was on the point of sweeping triumphantly away all the illusory mysteries of existence. It was sim- plicity itself. “I hope you see now the... ... from before her. For a time the woman gasped and laughed at no one in the luminous stillness of the empty room. 144 Tales of Unrest He reappeared, s...

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...ance have met; have parted with mutual trust! It is strange; secret as the Mysteries; but it is indubitable. Mirabeau took horse, one evening; and rod... ...ly awak- ened: for their stormbell rattles and rings; their eyes glis- ten luminous (with tallow-light), as in rattle-snake ire; and the Village will ... ...th plot and riot, tumult by night and by day; but a dark combus- tion, not luminous, not noticed; which now, however, one cannot help noticing. Above ... ...teenth morning of October 1791, the unquenched combustion suddenly becomes luminous! For Anti-constitutional Placards are up, and the Statue of the Vi... ...ra.) Such is the combustion of Avignon and the South-West, when it becomes luminous! Long loud debate is in the august Legislative, in the Mother-Soci... ...entre of an invisible Anti-National Spider- web, which, for we sleep among mysteries, stretches its threads to the ends of the Earth? Journalist Carra... ...world? it has become necessary now to look at that also. Fair France is so luminous: and round and round it, is troublous Cimmerian Night. Calonnes, B...

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...rquesans: three brown- skinned generations, squatted cross-legged upon the floor, and regarding me in silence with embarrassing eyes. The eyes of all ... ...fraction either a wasting or a deadly sickness. A slow disease follows on the eating of tapu fish, and can only be cured with the bones of the same fi... ...why are they dead? Without doubt the living shells have a very different background set for imita- tion. But why are these so different? We are only o... ... fit destination of some ‘faery frigot,’ here some adventurous prince might step ashore among new charac- ters and incidents; and the island prison, w... ...r the author- ity to get his troop in motion and revive the singing, it was with much diminished forces that they passed musically on up the dark road... ...y finding some shadowy pleasure in the mere proximity. Within, about one-half of the great shed was densely packed with people. In the midst, on the r... ...mparable to that of Egypt; our din- ner-table (lent, like all our furniture, by the king) must be enclosed in a tent of netting, our citadel and refug...

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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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...ely, for no one had ever troubled to teach his mother any- thing about the mysteries of a child’s upbringing—though of course the monthly nurse and he... ...thought it would be splendid to be a diver and go down into the dark green mysteries of the sea. He led stormers against well-nigh impregnable forts, ... ...n way beneath him and he had dropped through into another, into a world of luminous clouds and of desolate hopeless wildernesses of desiring and of wi... ...tly, became incredibly busy with wire and brass junctions and all sorts of mysteries. “Fix it to the (kik) bathroom tap!” said Mr. Rusper. Next door t... ... aloud in the pitiless dark- ness for him? He peered into the unfathomable mysteries of the heart, and ducked back to a smaller issue. Wa s he feeble?...

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...ears, and who is so manifestly her inferior in station. This is one of the mysteries of the human heart. But the rage of illicit love, when it is once... ... and silence of the night, Otto’s conscience became suddenly and staringly luminous, like the dial of a city clock. He averted the eyes of his mind, b... ...d there, through the breaches of the hills, the sun-beams made a great and luminous en- 134 Prince Otto try. Here Seraphina hastened along forest pat...

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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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...ough she often returned bearing on her brow, as if from vast heights, some luminous reflections, oftener she seemed to carry in her hand the flowers t... ... tones as yellow as those of a church taper, shone two blue eyes that were luminous with faith, burning with eager hope. It was divided into two equal... ...r, growing low on his forehead, indicated energy. His eyes, of a clear and luminous yellow, were too near the root of the nose,—a de- fect which gave ... ...de France,”—and the gleam recalled to the procureur’s mind the unexplained mysteries of the T ascheron crime. Then, reflecting that there could be no ... ... was looking at the child with terrible atten- tion. This gesture, and the luminous look in the prelate’s eyes, sent a shudder through V eronique’s bo...

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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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...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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...o) for compelling those edifices to return where they belong is one of the mysteries of municipal administration. Mr V erloc did not trouble his head ... ...complexion like a sort of pink seal, impressed on the fatal darkness. This luminous and mutilated vision was so ghastly physically that Mr V erloc sta... ...as his doomed head bobs up, streaming, for the last time. The inexplicable mysteries of conscious existence beset Chief Inspector Heat till he evolved... ...e policeman on the beat projected his sombre and mov- ing form against the luminous glory of oranges and lemons, 109 Joseph Conrad and entered Brett ... ...Stott-W artenheim’s alarmist despatches was not the man to break into such mysteries. He was easily intimidated. And he was also indolent, with the in...

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...o pure was its modelling, shone forth discreet, calm to placidity, and yet luminous with thought: when and where could another be found so transparent... ...ased; all things in nature had a voice and spoke to me. The old church was luminous. It’s arched roof, brilliant with gold and azure like those of an ... ...rtured with maternal care, my love, my sacred love, this living mystery of mysteries—it is about to fall into vulgar hands, and they will tear its dia... ...ES THIS VISIT of the great surgeon was the event of the day, and it left a luminous trace in Modeste’s soul. The young enthu- siast ardently admired t... ...ng, and never returns. It would seem as though fame, like the sun, hot and luminous at a distance, is cold as the sum- mit of an alp when you approach...

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... two were there—getting themselves entangled with hoops and dolls—familiar mysteries to the children—prob ably in the eyes of most of them, harmless ... ...ift of the noble savage, I cannot possibly conceive; for it is so much too luminous for my personal civilisation that it conveys no idea to my mind be... ...oons. They all got into the next carriage together, accompanied by the two Mysteries. They laughed. I am alone in the carriage (for I don’t consider D... ...tle round tables in it, at one of which the Sister Art ists and attendant Mysteries are established with Wasp and Zamiel, as if they were going to st... ...ht now? Past one. Black and Green are waiting in Whitechapel to unveil the mysteries of Wentworth Street. Williams, the best of friends must part. Adi...

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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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...an interminable time in coming. At last they appeared, first one unwinking luminous eye, pre- ceded by a swaying yellow glare, and then, winking now a... ... answer to all his questions in Cheasing Eyebright; the new Vicar was less luminous even than the old, and the riddle of his pointless labour grew at ... ...gway still inclined downward towards black vastnesses, towards shadows and mysteries and inconceiv- able things, into which Redwood went slowly with r...