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And again his eyes wandered from her to the suffusion of light and colour on the lake. 'How could anyone ever want anything better than this earth this life at its best if only one were allowed a full and normal share of it! And he thought again, almost with a leap of exasperation, of those dead and mangled men out there in France. Who was responsible God? or man?
He was smiling at me; there was a flush upon his cheek; his eye had a light in it, and with that a glow of tenderness which was different from anything I had ever seen; and it was glittering too, I think, with another sort of suffusion. His hand came smoothing down my hair and then touching my cheek while he looked at me. "What are you going to do with yourself now?" he said softly.
There's no other word for it. Did you know he was going to give me his?" "Yes, he told me he was going to," said Cornelia, looking at her sketch, with a dreamy suffusion of happiness in her face. "It's glorious, but it doesn't come within a million miles of yours. Mr. Wetmore isn't on the Committee, this year, but he knows them all, and " Cornelia turned upon her.
I am possessed by a shouting devil, who is continually prompting me to give the "hip-hip-hurrah!" under circumstances which might split apex and base of several of my most important arteries, which might bring on apoplexy, epilepsy, suffusion of the brain, or hernia, which might cause death, yes, Sir, death of the mother, father, and child. Really, good friends, I ask your pardon!
As Maso ceased, he cast a glance towards the attentive, breathless Adelheid, that continued to utter his meaning even after the tongue was silent The bright suffusion that covered the maiden's face was visible even by the pale moonlight, and Sigismund shrunk back from his rude grasp in the manner in which the guilty retire from notice.
Brevard was chilled by the possibility of an unutterable tragedy, when with a faint suffusion of color the girl gave a gasping sigh. Her voice stirred in a terror shaken whisper: "Uncle Edward, don't! Why don't. Oh!" She pressed her face with a long shudder into the pillow. "Whatever was it ?" her mother began wildly. Brevard caught her shoulder.
He always went with them to the crowded beach where they spent July and August, had had a car this year, Linda told her sister, and had been "so popular." Harriet would look off from her book; David's nearness did not hold the thrill, the shaking, the happy suffusion of colour that the most casual remembered glance of Richard Carter still possessed. No, she was richer in her memory of Richard
The figures and faces of the moonshiners showed against the deepening gloom. The sunset clouds were still red without; a vague roseate suffusion was visible through the falling water. The sun itself had not yet sunk, for an oblique and almost level ray, piercing the cataract, painted a series of faint prismatic tints on one side of the rugged arch.
I hastened back to the Major, to examine his wound, and, with the assistance of Timothy, I stripped him sufficiently to ascertain that the ball had entered his hip, and probing the wound with my finger, it appeared that it had glanced off in the direction of the intestines; the suffusion of blood was very trifling, which alarmed me still more. "Could you bear removal, Major, in the coach?"
The direction of this wider feeling about such relations tended strongly towards an increased closeness in them, more intimacy, and a more continuous suffusion of tenderness and long attachment. All this was part of the general revival of naturalism.
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