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As it wore on toward noon the atmosphere became insufferably sultry, and the sea looked as smooth as glass. I saw the captain's eye turn often and anxiously to windward. Far away in that direction, and alone in the blue heaven, I observed a little black cloud, and asked if it would bring us any wind.

Tell me what is the true form and colour of the Omnipresent and Eternal Brahman? But neither on the earth, nor in the sky, nor in the water of the ocean, is there anything like it, Neither in the stars, nor in lightning, nor in the clouds, is its form to be seen, nor is it visible in the atmosphere, nor in the deities, nor in the moon, nor in the sun.

The atmosphere was so clear, and the two armies so near each other, that the French could easily distinguish the costume of the queen. This striking costume was, in fact, one great cause of the danger she encountered in her flight.

'There's plenty of rugs there, miss, said the man, as he turned over the bridge with the same amused smile, and, as he had said, soon brought them into a better atmosphere, and finally to Brighton, where the sun was shining. 'If you'll let me know what time you wish to go back, miss, I'll meet you wherever you like, said the chauffeur, touching his hat.

The American deer, in the free atmosphere of our country, and as yet untouched by our decorative art, is without self-consciousness, and all his attitudes are free and unstudied.

He's in every way what you may call a representative American. There's no question about the home atmosphere of those old colonial houses. They make one feel sorry for the dinky, finicky, filigree houses built by most people in these days." There was a shout from the baseball field below, and, looking down there, they saw several boys scampering round the diamond.

The clearness and brilliancy of the heavens, the serenity and soft tranquillity of the atmosphere, diffusing the most calm and delightful sensations. The moon shines out with a greater radiance in those heavens than in ours, and when she coquettishly turns her back upon this side of our mundane sphere, her place is well supplied by the superior brilliance of the stars.

I simply thought that as the morning was so fine we might walk for a little time in the sunshine. But that is nothing." Naudheim shook his head. "Not one word do I speak of those things that are precious to me, in this house," he declared. "I tell you that its atmosphere would choke the life out of every thought that was ever conceived.

It might be supposed from the lively manner in which la Peyrade made these inquiries that his cure though sudden was complete; but this surface of indifference and cool self-possession was only the stillness of the atmosphere that precedes a storm.

The atmosphere was like that of a circus grounds when the circus was moving on, only a few things left for the last crew to come for. 'It feels like a graveyard, whispered Helen. 'What has happened? 'The old story, I suppose. He turned sideways in the saddle, looking about him for a sign of remaining life. 'It grew in the night; somehow it has pinched out; the bottom has dropped out of it.