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Trigger turned to regard herself in the wall mirror on the right, which, she had noticed, remained carefully unobscured by drifting viewers and viewees. A thoughtful touch on the lounge management's part. "Until we walked in here," she explained, "I thought this was a pretty sharp little outfit I'm wearing." "Hmmm," Quillan said judiciously.
There were later instances, perhaps, of deeper satisfaction, but they were more or less perplexed, and not unobscured by anxiety. That afternoon it was all to know and to be experienced, with just a delicious foretaste. I said something presently about Lady Pilkey's picnic on the morrow, to which we had both been bidden. 'Shall I call for you? I asked. 'You will ride, of course.
The lamps of the gallery shone full upon the light grace of her figure, as shrinking with blushing modesty, and yet eager to be with her preserver, she stood hesitating before him. He threw his cloak over her, and putting her arm through his, in the unobscured blaze of his princely armor, he descended to the lower hall of the castle. One man only was there.
And since we know the state of things, since we know that the fault is really ours when we dare to stray to forbidden deeds and places, how constant and unrelenting, if we are truly wise, should be our efforts to keep our vision unobscured and our ears attuned to the voice and call of our heavenly Shepherd! We know that by following Him our way will be certain and clear.
Etna loomed up in all his sublime bulk, unobscured by cloud or mist, while a slender jet of smoke, rising from his crater, was slowly curling its wreaths in the clear air, as if happy to receive the first beam of the sun.
'I have set the Lord always in front of me before my face. Emphasis is placed on 'set' and 'always. God is ever by our sides, but we may be very far away from Him, 'though He be not far off from every one of us, and if we are to have Him blazing, clear and unobscured above and beyond all the mists and hubbub of earth, we shall need continual effort in order to keep Him in our sight.
Thin scuds of vapor darted across the sky, driven by the morning breeze; dissolved and reformed a little farther on. Tenuous wisps, evanescent, wraithlike. The sun shone steadily, unobscured. "Those little things," said Joan unbelievingly. "Why, if that's all you're depending on, we're finished." "Nevertheless they are rain clouds. But when the rain will come is another matter.
The young girl felt this blessed peace gently stealing over her; doubt and struggle were all past, and the sun shone ever serene and unobscured upon the widening expanses of the future. And in his breast, too, that mood reigned in which life looks boundless and radiant, human woes small or impossible, and one's own self large and all-conquering.
To enjoy the silent, perfect workings of the great household, to drive herself or be driven, to walk and read, to loiter through walled gardens and hothouses at will, such things to a healthy woman with an unobscured power of enjoyment were luxuries which could not pall. Walderhust found her an actual addition to his comfort. She was never in the way.
The city with its long blocks of buildings, its spires and bridges, faded away, leaving the scene as it was in the days of Fort Henry unobscured by smoke, the river undotted by pulling boats, and everywhere the green and verdant forest.
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