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Secretly triumphant though she was, she never so far lost her head as to do anything which would bore her or cause her to appear at less than an alluring advantage. When she could invent a particularly unique and inspiring shred of a garment to startle the public with, she danced for some noble object and intoxicated herself with the dazzle of light and applause.
Basil, which is top-heavy with spires, domes, and minarets, ornamented in the most irregular and unprecedented manner. Yet, as a whole, the structure is not inharmonious with its unique surroundings, the semi-Oriental, semi-barbaric atmosphere in which it stands.
They could judge for themselves whether the whole thing was not quite unique. That was why he was willing to talk about his own child that way, before a gathering of ladies and gentlemen; it was because they took no credit they felt it was a power outside. If Verena felt she was going to be stimulated that evening, he was pretty sure they would be interested.
There are many ways of watching the New Year in; but the somewhat unique personal experience of welcoming it on that eve of 1902, gazing at the vast expanse of the brilliant skies through the windows of a sleeping-car, had its claim to beauty and sacredness. The rush of the train gave a sense of almost floating out into the ethereal spaces.
This is in itself a sufficient indication of policy to give Leicester an almost unique position among the statesmen to whom the development of our representative institutions are due. But just as his parliament was not in any sense our first representative assembly, so it did not include in any complete sense a House of Commons at all.
When jealousy is genuine," said de Marsay, interrupting himself, "it is the visible sign of an unique passion." "Why?" asked the Princesse de Cadignan eagerly. "Unique and true love," said de Marsay, "produces a sort of corporeal apathy attuned to the contemplation into which one falls.
Meanwhile, dejected and melancholy as he was through the winter, he went on mechanically with his tasks; thought he found in Coleridge the first description of what he was feeling; feared the idiosyncrasies of his education had made him a being unique and apart. "I asked myself if I could or if I was bound to go on living, when life must be passed in this manner.
"Dream!" said General Triscoe with the glass at his eyes. "He's dead sure of it." "Oh, you don't really mean that!" "I don't know why I should have changed my mind." "Then it's as if we were in the presence of Charles II. just before he was called back to England, or Napoleon in the last moments of Elba. It's better than that. The thing is almost unique; it's a new situation in history.
Warren's gaunt frame appeared in the doorway. Jones' head lifted. "It ought to be as er unique," he drawled, "as an er Ancient Roman speaking perfect English." Like a flash, the false Livius caught up the knife from the bench where the false cobbler had dropped it and swung toward Average Jones.
So, on the whole, Mark's picture brings out prominently the following traits in John's personality and mission: First, his preparation for Christ by preaching repentance. The truest way to create in men a longing for Jesus, and to lead to a true apprehension of His unique gift to mankind, is to evoke the penitent consciousness of sin.
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