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He also concocted an advertisement beginning with "M.A., Oxford, accustomed to the best society and familiar with European languages," but though the newspapers charged highly for it, he only received one answer, except those from agents, and that, he said with illimitable disgust, was from a Yankee.
To remain with illimitable guesses at his choice was more agreeable, for the present at least, and he was not aware of having lapsed from them when he woke so late as to be one of the breakfasters whose plates were kept for them after the others were gone. It was the first time that Verrian had come down late, and it was his novel experience to find himself in charge of Mrs.
The word "God" stands for many things, but to present-day thought it must stand for the un-caused Cause of all existence, the unitary principle implied in all multiplicity. Everyone of necessity believes in this. It is impossible to define the term completely, for to define is necessarily to limit, and we are thinking of the illimitable.
It spread like an illimitable ocean in soundless billows out of which weird rocks stood up a dream-world of fantastic possibilities, but petrified into stillness by the spell of its solitudes a world that once surely had thrilled with magic and now was dead.
You seem to be wandering through illimitable halls of pillars; everywhere you catch glimpses of stately aisles, intersecting each other at all points. A strange silence, too, reigns far and near; the air flushed with the mellow stillness of a sunset. But after the long morning calms, the sea-breeze comes in; and creeping over the tops of these thousand trees, they nod their plumes.
Genuine flashes of rhetorical fire were occasionally struck by that plain and simple man, who knew what straightforward conduct was, and who did not know the illimitable caprice of a woman's mind. At this moment there was not in the whole chapel a person whose imagination was not centred on what was invisibly taking place within the vestry.
We lay, as it were, on a shelf in the sky, with a basin of illimitable forests below us and dim mountain-passes-in the far horizon.
Besides, I want to know everything." "They tell me you do, already," said Dr. Butts. "I am the most ignorant little wretch that draws the breath of life!" exclaimed The Terror. The doctor smiled. He knew what it meant. She had reached that stage of education in which the vast domain of the unknown opens its illimitable expanse before the eyes of the student.
It is not very much for you to give me, Mercy, after all, out of the illimitable riches of your beauty, your brightness, your spirit, your strength, just a few words, just a few smiles, just a little love, for the few days, or it may be years, that fate sets us by each other's side? And you, too, need a friend, Mercy.
Above him floated, blended with all the vague distortions of the cloud and the wave, boundless dreams of shadow. Who could tell what sinister mysteries lurked behind this phantom? The illimitable, circumscribed by naught, nor tree, nor roof, nor passer-by, was around the dead man.
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