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"I should be stupid to inquire after your health," he said as he shook her hand. "You are positively radiant. I shall ask instead if you still find time to come up and see us occasionally, and if we improve on acquaintance?" "I go very often indeed, but I have seen you only three times." "I have been North for a week, and in my Committee Room a good deal since my return."

Dead He seems and buried out of sight, but He rises again clothed in the very matter in which He seemed to perish, and carries up His body of now radiant matter into heaven, where it receives the downpouring life of the Father, and becomes the vehicle of man's immortal life.

I shouldn't care much which, if only you were here. Roger minor is a dear boy; but you are " She didn't say what he was, but worked late into the night with her copy. At bedtime Jill came in radiant. "He's come back, Rosalind. Dear Mr Armstrong's come back." "Oh!" said Rosalind shortly. "Aren't you glad? Oh, I am!" "Why should I be glad?

In the old days before Georgia went dry he had to give up carrying a crook-handled umbrella. He would invariably leave it hanging on the rail. So I should have kept the bait in mind myself but I didn't, being engaged at the time in sun-burning a deep, radiant magenta. However it was not a fast color long before night it was peeling off in long, painful strips. Suppose you do catch something!

"When I was ill she came often and sang it to me, and when they would give me back my violin I found it at once, and now I am so happy. It talks of the butterflies in the woods, which are where she lives, and there is a little white one which flies up beside her with her radiant blue wings. And she has promised me that the music will take me to her, quite soon. Oh, Chérisette!"

Derby day dawned as fair as turquoise sky and radiant sun could make it. I had slept badly. Until late the night before I had absorbed a haze of cigar smoke and the talk in the hotel lobby. Despite Blister's confidence I had become panicky as I listened. There had been so much assurance about several grave, soft-spoken horsemen who had felt that at the weight the favorite could not win.

Els received the caress with surprise for, though both girls loved each other tenderly, they, like most sisters, rarely expressed it by tangible proofs of tenderness. Not until Eva released her did Els exclaim in merry amazement: "So it was delightful, my darling?" "Oh, so delightful!" Eva protested with hands uplifted, and at the same time met her sister's eyes with a radiant glance.

He gave his right arm to President Barbicane, and his left to J.T. Maston, more radiant than the midday sun, and nearly as ruddy. Ardan mounted the platform, from which his eyes extended over a forest of black hats. He did not seem in the least embarrassed; he did not pose; he was at home there, gay, familiar, and amiable.

As she came out again, she saw in the dim hall the radiant figure of the French lady come toward her and open the door to the left of her own room. "So we are neighbours," Mary thought, and felt flattered by the proximity. She would have liked to salute her, but she did not dare. Then she accompanied Nathaniel down to the promenade on the beach. The hours dragged by.

The orderliness and beauty of the churchyard struck her as it always did a veritable garden of sleep, with level close-shorn turf set thick with standard rose trees, that even the clustering headstones could not make chill and sombre. From the radiant sunshine without she passed into the cool dimness of the little building.