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We can point nowhere to anything final; but tendency appears on all hands: planet, system, constellation, total Nature, is growing like a field of maize in July; is becoming somewhat else; is in rapid metamorphosis.... Says Nature 'I have not arrived at any end; I grow, I grow." It was a great relief to gain the open air after the long and saddening exploration of the Catacombs.
In short, the Fontanka is a saddening spot for a walk, for there is wet granite under one's feet, and tall, dingy buildings on either side of one, and wet mist below and wet mist above. Yes, all was dark and gloomy there this evening. By the time I had returned to Gorokhovaia Street darkness had fallen and the lamps had been lit.
On the mantel-pieces of variegated marble, supported by fluted pillars, with exquisitely carved capitals, rested a full length picture of a gentleman, the heavy gilt frame tarnished and crumbling. The house was desolate, deserted, inexpressibly saddening from the evident contrast between its present and its past.
It's a very saddening thought that we for whom all these beautiful things have been put together we whom labouring humanity has pampered and petted from our cradles upward, feeding us on its whitest bread, and toiling for us with all its weary sinews that we probably will never do anything at all for it and for the world in return, but will simply eat our way through life aimlessly, and die forgotten in the end like the beasts that perish.
All the windows in Beresford-place were filled with spectators, and the rain and cold seemed to have no saddening effect on the numerous multitude. The various bands of the trade were being disposed in their respective positions, and the hearses were a long way off and altogether in the back-ground, when, at a quarter to twelve, the first rank of men moved forward.
To her parents she was only a great girl rather in the way. To Mrs. Beaufort a rival, to Mr. Beaufort an encumbrance on the property. * "The moon Saddening the solemn night, yet with that sadness Mingling the breath of undisturbed Peace." WILSON: City of the Plague * "Tell me his fate. Say that he lives, or say that he is dead But tell me tell me! I see him not some cloud envelopes him." Ibid.
The woman's figure, scornfully erect, trembled with the excitement of the position she had on the moment assumed; but her beautiful face, refined and spiritualized of late by the imprint of womanhood's saddening wisdom, was coldly resolute. By contrast with the burly form and red, rough countenance of the man she confronted, she seemed made of another clay.
And then, a while after, "I don't understand." It was not like my mother to worry. The next day the coach lumbered up and rattled past, and did not stop, and the next, and the next. "We shall have a letter," mother said, her eyes saddening every afternoon. But we had no letter. And another day went by, and another.
The departure of the guests had a saddening effect upon the crew of the Young America, as they missed the children and the ladies very much; for, during their presence on board, the ship had assumed quite a domestic aspect, and all the idlers on deck found pleasing companions in the little boy and girl. The limits of this volume do not permit a full detail of the entire voyage across the ocean.
It is very saddening to see how many, who claim to be your friends while you are prosperous, are the first to assail with poisoned arrows when you are attacked in the courts or in the public prints; but my conscience is clear, and This delightful journey was a wonderful revelation of the greatness, power, and grandeur of this glorious republic in which we live.
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