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The light came up noiselessly and presently stood in the room not a lantern or candle, but a white phosphorescence. It advanced toward her, changing its form until she saw a cloudy likeness to a human being. For the first time in her life she feared. "Come no nearer!" she cried. "I know you. I believe you, and I forgive." The light vanished.
I see thy sire before me in all his strength and weakness; loving and honouring the King as a sort of lord mayor of the empire, or chief of the board of trade venerating the Commons, for the acts regulating the export trade and respecting the Peers, because the Lord Chancellor sits on a woolsack." "Mine was a likeness, Rashleigh; yours is a caricature.
'My lady would be quite contented if she could pass two months of the year in the mountains, Madge answered. 'Look at me. They say people living together get a likeness to one another. What's your opinion? Upon my word, your eyebrows remind me, though they're not the colour they have a bend! 'You've seen my lady in danger, my lord.
Procter deprecated with energy such an idea as that. Looking at the portrait again, Rogers said, with great feeling, "Children would run away from that face, and they never ran away from me!" Notwithstanding all he had to say against the portrait, I thought it a wonderful likeness, and a painting of great value.
Some lose appetite at its appearance, its likeness to a gigantic thousand-leg, and others find that it rests uneasy within them, as though each claw, or tooth of the comb, viciously stabbed their interiors. I found them excellent when wrapped in leaves of the hotu-tree and fried in brown butter, and they were very good when broiled over a fire on the beach.
Distances in the other life are not as distances on the Earth. In the other life distances are altogether according to the states of the interiors of each one. They who are in a similar state are together in one society and in one place. All presence there results from likeness of state, and all distance results from unlikeness of state.
"Hardly more than thirty." "Then how can it be the same man, who sixteen years before, had been with our father in the wars?" "You are right," said Dagobert, after a moment's silence, and shrugging his shoulders: "I may have been deceived by a chance likeness and yet " "Or, if it were the same, he could not have got older all that while."
It came in the shape of that most extraordinary likeness between me and that poor soul who threw herself into the river. I was not twenty-one when I left the stage for the second time, and I haven't made up my mind yet whether it was good or bad for me, as an actress, to cease from practicing my craft for six years.
Such was Darby Skinadre; and certain we are that the truth of the likeness we have given of him will be at once recognized by our readers as that of the roguish hypocrite, whose rapacity is the standing curse of half the villages of the country, especially during the seasons of distress, or failure of crops.
"Shouldn't you like, Miss Edith, to have a portrait of Prince Pullingo and his beautiful bride?" he asked. "I don't think I can do it from memory, but perhaps I can get them to sit for their likeness." "By all means," answered Edith; "though I very much doubt that you will succeed in inducing them to sit quiet while you make your sketch." "Trust me for that," said Tom.
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