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They had a fanciful train of argument to support their theory. They observed that the terrestrial paradise must be in the noblest and happiest part of the globe; that part must be under the noblest part of the heavens; as the merits of a place do not so much depend upon the virtues of the earth, as upon the happy influences of the stars and the favorable and benign aspect of the heavens.
We saw ancient tombs and temples of fanciful architecture carved out of the solid rock high up in the face of precipices above our heads, but we had neither time nor strength to climb up there and examine them.
Hugo Canning, of the well-known Pursuing-Sex; how the Great Young Man pursued Miss Heth to a Summer-house, and what stopped his Thundering Feet. Nor were the figments of sweet sleep too fanciful or far-flown. About eight-thirty o'clock, when Mrs. and Miss Heth stepped from a descending lift into the glaring publicity of the main floor, the first object that their eyes fell upon was Mr.
Since her meeting with Conrad Lagrange in the rose garden, Sibyl Andrés had looked, every day, for that promised letter. She found it early in the afternoon. It was a quaint letter written in the spirit of their meeting telling her the probable time of her neighbor's return; warning her, in fear of some fanciful horror, to beware of the picture on the easel; and wishing her joy of the adventure.
In that building, and in other works that he executed for that Pontiff, he endured much labour, but was badly rewarded for it. Finally Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, having recognized the genius of Vignuola, to whom he always showed much favour, desired, in carrying out the building of his Palace at Caprarola, that the whole work should spring from the fanciful design and invention of Vignuola.
"I have been imagining that if Dick is hiding, a fugitive, he might naturally come to me for help. I am fanciful, perhaps," she added hastily, lest she should have said too much. "But there it is. All day the notion has clung to me, and I have been asking myself desperately what I should do in such a case." "Time enough to consider it when it happens, Una. After all "
Here is not the slightest thing that ever we have seen save in pictures and we always mistrusted the pictures before. We cannot anymore. The pictures used to seem exaggerations they seemed too weird and fanciful for reality. But behold, they were not wild enough they were not fanciful enough they have not told half the story.
It is pretty obvious here that only the head is adapted from that of Lavinia, the full-blown voluptuous form not being that of the youthful maiden, who could not moreover have worn this sumptuous and fanciful costume except in the studio.
A vague, fanciful first cause of physical phenomena, a general idea, abstracted out of all content, so as to leave no meaning for the human mind whatever the imagination might make of it a mechanical, magnetic force, to which all motion might conveniently be referred; a deified principle of order and these held in conjunction with the popular polytheism, and impregnated with the national pantheistic conceptions was all that Greek philosophy could offer to the higher religious aspirations of the educated man.
Thornton laughed and slowed down. "I don't fancy it's used much, except in the winter for logging. But if the map says we can get through, I guess we're all right there's about an eight mile stretch of it." It was growing dusk, and the shadows, fanciful and picturesque; were deepening around them.
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