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It is our lack of judgment if we hide ourselves so that we cannot be approached. No matter how high we rise, for the sake of our own brains we must allow men of ideas to get to us. We must not allow our minds to become stagnant. If we fail to get into daily contact with other people, we soon grow dull and uninteresting even to ourselves.
From this muddle, which resembles a sort of stagnant pool, emerge the strangest fungus-growths, clergymen who take to acting a 'miracle-play, ostensibly for the purposes of charity, but really to gratify their own tastes and leanings toward the mummer's art, all the time utterly regardless of the effect their behavior is likely to have on the minds of the unthinking populace, who are led by the newspapers, and who read therein bantering inquiries as to whether the Church is coquetting with the Stage? whether the two are likely to become one? and whether Religion will in the future occupy no more serious consideration than the Drama?
The trunks of trees already stripped of leafage showed their light-gray colonnades; the russet, tawny, grayish colors, artistically blended by the pale reflections of an October sun, harmonized with the vast uncultivated plain, green as stagnant water.
The words which his cousin had spoken had not turned him, had not convinced him. Were he again tempted to speak his real mind about this woman, as he had spoken in very truth his real mind, he would still express the same opinion. She was to him like a running stream to a man who had long bathed in stagnant waters.
My boy never had the least notion how he got home; and I dare say he was very young when he began these excursions to the woods. In some places Old River was a stagnant pool, covered with thick green scum, and filled with frogs.
The sun had set, the first star was in heaven, the "Fighting Man" was laid low, and on that spot where now, all forlorn and shattered, amidst stagnant water, stands the altar-stone of Battle Abbey, rose the glittering dragon that surmounted the consecrated banner of the Norman victor. Close by his banner, amidst the piles of the dead, William the Conqueror pitched his pavilion, and sate at meat.
Then the veil was suddenly withdrawn; the vast plain, stretching from the mountain to the sea, shone as clearly as in the light of day; the moving current of the channel glittered like black pearls, the stagnant pools like molten lead; but not a sign of life nor motion broke the monotony of the broad expanse. She must have surely dreamed it.
Protoplasm is essentially uniform and similar in appearance and properties wherever found, whether in the tissues of the human body, in a blade of grass, or in the green slime of a stagnant pool. And yet probably no two samples of protoplasm are ever exactly similar in all respects, though we may never be able to detect their precise differences.
The redeeming point in this stagnant domesticity is the tenderness of the parents for their children, and western writers have laid so much stress on this that one would suppose children could be loved only by inert and ignorant parents.
He went on to speak with a cold deliberate malignancy, but instinctively so sticking to absolute truth that he could trust himself to hurt most. The other listened, cold at heart and physically; his veins and arteries seemed stagnant. 'I won't tell you anything of her pretty embarrassments; how her voice fell as she pleaded; how she blushed and stammered.
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