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Nor do the brave inflict a shallower wound on maidens than the comely. Now it befell that Balder the son of Odin was troubled at the sight of Nanna bathing, and was seized with boundless love. He was kindled by her fair and lustrous body, and his heart was set on fire by her manifest beauty; for nothing exciteth passion like comeliness.
"I think it mighty nice of them to come all the way from Dryden with a pig on my soul, I do, Ann!" Taking a silver case from his pocket, he extracted a cigarette from it, while directing his attention to Flea. "I want it now as much as I did then; but I don't believe that I shall ever roast and eat him." Flea searched the speaker's face fearfully, her eyes lustrous with melting tenderness.
Here dwelt in days of yore many tribes of Rakshasas and Daityas, possessed of many kinds of celestial weapons, but they were all vanquished by the gods. Behold, there, in Varuna's lake is that fire of blazing flames, and that discus of Vishnu surrounded by the lustrous splendour of mighty caloric. Behold, there lieth that knotty bow that was created for the destruction of the world.
Her dress was always noticeably lovely; at present she wore pink tulle over lustrous gray, with a high silver girdle, a narrow black velvet band and diamond clasp about her delicate full throat. Anna Mantegazza was more elaborately gowned, in white embroidery, with a little French hat; but Anna Mantegazza was an American with millions, and elaboration was a commonplace with her.
So he looked past them into the temple halls; into a lustrous abyss of cool green shade, deepening on and inward, pillar after pillar, vista after vista, into deepest night.
Her hair fell loose over her shoulders and streamed down her back until it piled itself upon the rock, shining dark and lustrous in the light of the moon. Philip knew that she was not an Indian.
And then there came a louder roaring of the storm, shut off quickly, and the little Missioner knew that a door was opened and closed. He lifted the latch, and looked out again into the lampglow. Huddled at the side of a chair on the floor, her arms and face buried in the lustrous, disheveled mass of her shining hair lay Nada, and close beside her was Peter. He went to her.
Her cheeks burned dreadfully, and her voice was not quite steady, as, rising from her seat, she said: "I like a stool better than this chair. I'll bring it and sit at your feet. There, now I am ready," and seating herself at a safe distance from him, Alice waited for him to commence. She grew tired of waiting, and turning her lustrous eyes upon him, said gently: "You seem unhappy about something.
But for Harry every other thought was swallowed up in a moment by his attention being called to a little girl, about four years of age, who stole into the room, and stood for a while staring at him with one finger in her mouth, and her head drooping slightly, but not so much as to hide a pair of lustrous hazel eyes.
He stood with one hand holding his recovered cap, and with the other at his belt, the light of a complacent smile in his long lustrous eyes, as he made a parting reverence to his audience, before springing down from the bales when suddenly his glance met that of a man who had not at all the amusing aspect of the exulting weavers, dyers, and woolcarders.
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