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He seemed to sing out of very wantonness, and his song seemed to have that soft undercurrent of melody heard in the chimes of Belgium with just a hint of plaintiveness in it to make the joy and the brightness of the day complete. No wonder the Indians thought these majestic white mountains the abodes of their god.
At such a moment it is a more natural action to loosen than to tighten the purse-strings, and when a very neatly dressed young man presented himself at the gate, and, in a note of indescribable plaintiveness, asked if I had any little job for him to do that he might pay for a night's lodging, I looked about the small domain with a vague longing to find some part of it in disrepair, and experienced a moment's absurd relief when he hinted that he would be willing to accept fifty cents in pledge of future service.
It was the voice he had imagined for her low, and round, and clear, with just an undernote of plaintiveness matching the wistful appeal of her eyes. At the first sound of it a shudder of exquisite delight went through him, as though she had touched him with her slender white, bare hand on the naked breast. "Thank you for not quite forgetting.
She sat for a silent and studious moment or two, without looking at Copeland. Then she sighed, with mock plaintiveness. Her wistfulness seemed to leave her doubly dangerous. "Mr. Copeland, are n't you afraid some one might find it worth while to tip Blake off?" she softly inquired. "What would you gain?" was his pointed and elliptical interrogation.
Leyburn, who was strolling about the garden. She at once informed him with much languid plaintiveness that Catherine had gone to Whinborough for the day, and would not be able to join the picnic. Elsmere stood still. 'Gone! he cried. 'But it was all arranged with her yesterday! Mrs. Leyburn shrugged her shoulders. She too was evidently much put out. 'So I told her. But you know, Mr.
He had really borne patiently with much plaintiveness, and she knew it. She accused herself of ingratitude and unreasonableness, and went into a fresh agony on that score; but soon a tap at the door warned her to strive for composure. It was Sarah, and Violet felt sure that the dreaded moment was come of her giving warning; but it was only a message.
Her voice matched the expression of her face; there was a natural tone of plaintiveness in it. "When I last saw you," continued the count, standing as if spellbound before her, "you were only a child. Now," and his kindling eyes riveted themselves upon her, "you are a woman.
Then with renewed plaintiveness "I cannot make up my mind whether it is not my duty, my chivalrous duty, to seek an interview with Sir Charles Verity and explain put the aspects of the case to him as I see them." "Call on him by all means. I'll go with you. We ought, in common civility, to enquire for Damaris after this illness of hers.
It is loud, pervasive, and in quality of tone not unlike our Eastern phoebe, lacking entirely the sweet plaintiveness of our wood-pewee. A pewee chorus is a droll and dismal affair. The poor things do their best, no doubt, and they cannot prevent the pessimistic effect it has upon us. It is rhythmic, but not in the least musical, and it has a weird power over the listener.
I have known it all my life; perhaps that was why I mistook passion for love; and my baby O God, have mercy! God have mercy!" The plaintiveness of that cry, the awesomeness of what I had seen of what was going on at that moment almost within the reach of our arms the darkness, the desolation of our two souls, affected me as I had never been affected in my whole life before.
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