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Then you and Miss Sinclair are to share alike." "I don't seem to comprehend it all yet," and Jasper placed his hand to his forehead in a bewildered manner. "It's only natural that you shouldn't. It will take you some time to grasp the significance of the bequest which has been made to you.
"You can wear yourself out if you insist, mamma, but I can't see any reason for it. I'm tired." Mrs. Becker sat down, hitching her chair toward her daughter's. "Lilly," she paid, eagerly forward and a highly specialized significance in her voice, "don't you feel well baby?" "Of course I feel well, mamma. As well as anyone can feel in this heat. If only you wouldn't harass me about this old house."
"Aren't you?" said Billy weakly, his mind in a whirl still from the lightning-like overthrow of all his theories of action. "I'm not going to do what Nancy is going to do, just out of sheer temperamental weakness, and and tendency to follow the line of least resistance." Billy had no idea of the significance of her last phrase, and let it go unheeded.
It must be remembered that children's curious questions are only their attempt to discover their world, that they have no peculiar religious significance, but that they afford the parent a vital opportunity for direct religious instruction.
She questioned him about his health and what he had been doing, and tried to persuade him to take a rest and come out to her. All this she said brightly, rapidly, and with a peculiar brilliance in her eyes. But Alexey Alexandrovitch did not now attach any special significance to this tone of hers. He heard only her words and gave them only the direct sense they bore.
It told him that when he came to shelter he would at least feel it, and that he must fight until the last. The pack on his back held no significance and no weight for him. He might have traveled a mile or ten miles an hour and he would not have sensed the difference.
What the black monk had told him of the chosen of God, of eternal truth, of the brilliant future of mankind and so on, gave peculiar and extraordinary significance to his work, and filled his soul with pride and the consciousness of his own exalted consequence.
These bulbous, indescribable sea-goblins are the first thing on which the eye of the poet lights in looking on a landscape, and the last in the significance of which he trusts in demonstrating the mercy of the Everlasting. There is another and but slightly different use of the grotesque, but which is definitely valuable in Browning's poetry, and indeed in all poetry.
Those marvellous figures that appear in ghostly procession upon the walls of S. Apollinare here in Ravenna are really indescribable, they must be seen if the lovely significance of their beauty is to be understood. What can one say of them? Upon the Epistle side we see as it were a procession of twenty-five figures all in white with palms in the right hands and crowns in their left.
Perhaps they were unaware that the WHOLE OF SPAIN WAS UNDER MARTIAL LAW, or if they were, the true significance of the fact failed to strike them.
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