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For a moment John hesitated, appalled by the silent splendour massed about him, seeming to envelop in its gigantic folds and contours the solitary drenched little figure shivering upon the ivory landing. Then simultaneously two things happened.
Rigel shows a line which some believe to represent magnesium; but while it has iron lines in its spectrum, it exhibits no evidence of the existence of any such cloud of volatilized iron as that which helps to envelop the sun. For another test of what the three-inch will do turn to zeta, the lower, or left-hand, star in the Belt. This is a triple, the magnitudes being second, sixth, and tenth.
Through tree and hedge, as she drove, came ever changing glimpses of gleaming palace fronts; glimpses that made her turn and look again; that stimulated but did not satisfy, and left a pleasant longing for something on the seeming verge of fulfilment. The very stillness and solitude that seemed to envelop these palaces suggested the enchanter's wand.
Burnside was ordered if he should succeed in breaking the enemy's centre, to swing around to the left and envelop the right of Lee's army. Hancock was informed of all the movements ordered. Burnside had three divisions, but one of them a colored division was sent to guard the wagon train, and he did not see it again until July.
And they seemed to envelop her in a flash of cerulean light. It was He ill, and about to die. His heart was wounded, bleeding, pierced, perhaps, by the shafts of mysterious melody, as hearts of the Virgin sometimes bleed on altars bristling with swords. Leonora could still see him as if he were there in front of her.
Each female catkin has a separate peduncle, charged with reddish, scarious, lanceolate scales, and is surrounded at its base with a double row of the same scales, which served to envelop it before it expanded; its form is perfectly oval, and its total length about half an inch.
With joy in my heart I look at you when you tear down the gates of Sodom, but my heart trembles at the same time, fearing that you might erect on its ruins new ones more chilling and darker ones. There will be no houses without windows; but fog will envelop the souls.... There will be no empty stomachs, but souls will starve.
What for?" "Daren and I are going to to be married.... Good-bye. No more till we come back." As one in a dream, Lane led Mel out in the whirling white pall of snow. It seemed to envelop them. It was mysterious and friendly, and silent. They crossed the bridge, and Lane again listened for the river voices that always haunted here. Were they only murmurings of swift waters?
Now she caught the low undertone, as of the wind sinking down to repose itself; then ascended with it, as it rose through progressive gradations of sweetness and power, until its volume seemed to envelop her with an atmosphere of awe and solemn grandeur. And yet, majestic as the voice sometimes became, there was for ever in it an essential character of plaintiveness.
"If you think it is better for you, too, then follow me, friend Elpidias." And the two shades walked on, while the soul of Ctesippus, released by sleep from its mortal envelop, flew after them, greedily absorbing the tones of the clear Socratic speech. "Are you here, good Socrates?" the voice of the Athenian again was heard. "Why are you silent?
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