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He had no thought of the present, and the pictures of the past were all rich and ravishing.
Charlotte's shoulders were thin, but the hollowing curve from the throat to the arm was ravishing. Anderson's face hardened a little. He looked away again at the rain. All at once Charlotte glanced up from the dancing flight of the rain-drops on the road, and laughed. "Why," she cried, "there is Ina! There is my sister!"
One can never forget his morning visit to the American Falls when the sunlight comes from the required angles, heightening the beauty of the whole wild mass of waters, sifting in ravishing splendor through the clouds of drifting spray. What an artist Nature is!
"Mine's perfectly lovely" with a ravishing smile "but it's not very sweet." "I made them dry for you thought you'd like 'em that way," he stammered. "Perhaps you'd like 'em better if I put a collar on 'em?" The chorus negatived this suggestion very promptly. "Why don't you try a glass, Mr. Duncan?" Angie added with malice.
Now faint, now louder, it swelled and died away on the breeze, now fairly startling in its joyousness, now plaintive as the wind sighing among the reeds in some lonely spot after nightfall; alluring, thrilling, mocking by turns; elusive as the strains of fairy pipers; utterly ravishing in its sweetness. Migwan and Gladys lifted their heads and looked at each other in wonder.
With their permission he would say one word which would be enough for persons of so distinguished an imagination, and that word was "Tournament;" and then he would speak of nothing else except the beauty of the evening light upon the river, which he declared to be "ravishing," and the excellence of a certain kind of chocolate which he carried in his pocket, and shared generously with his "dogs."
What good chance?" returned the newcomer, rushing to him and kissing him on both cheeks, to the British horror of Sir Midas, who had followed. "Ah, but you are perfect!" he added, kissing his fingers in admiration of McFeckless's Florentine dress. "But you? what is this ravishing costume?" asked McFeckless, with a pang of jealousy. "You are god-like."
In the light of both desire and convenience she had, therefore, appreciated in his eyes. To marry her, become the proprietor of her snug home and ravishing person, and send her off to pray with the sick and sup with the older women of the flock, seemed to him such a comfortable consummation as to have Heaven's especial approval.
'Displaying that fair face * The tempted they assailed Who, had they wished me safe * That lovely face had veiled! Lord of the curling locks and rose red cheeks and ravishing look of whom saith the poet, And as saith another,
Of the wonderful beauty of the scene beyond her front windows She had never wearied, and now in the ravishing afternoon glow, with the blue air all saturated with golden gleams, she yielded to the Parthenopean spell, which, once felt, seems never to be forgotten. Had it the power to chant to rest that sombre past which memory kept as a funeral theme for ever on its vibrating strings?
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