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Updated: May 29, 2025
A few reindeer wandered now and then over its frozen shores; a scanty vegetation of the correlative reindeer-moss grew with difficulty under the sheets and drifts of endless snow; a stray walrus or an occasional seal basked in the chilly sunshine on the ice-bound coast.
Instead, he basked in the sunshine, twiddling his bare toes ecstatically, and let the huge bulk of him sink more contentedly into the well-reinforced armchair which creaked under his slightest motion. Scattergood glanced across the dusty square to the post office. The mail was in, and possibly there were letters there for him.
In the middle of the sound a small green islet basked like a sea monster in the evening sunshine. As they stood on the top of the descent that ran steeply to the sea, he cast his eyes around for any signs of life on sea or on shore.
We had no automobile, but the sorrels were there in the height of their glory and slimness, and we still basked in the refulgence of the coachman and footman of Bee's own selection, so her soul was at peace. Only one thing happened to mar our pleasure. Jimmie fell ill. Mrs. Jimmie hunted me up one blistering morning, and said, anxiously: "Faith, I am very much worried about Jimmie.
He begins already to look forward, a little ruefully, to the time when his heart shall be "an extinct marriage-crater," and after a visit to Berlin, where he basked in the smiles of Queen Luise, he was again betrothed, this time to the less intellectually gifted, but as devoted and better dowered Karoline Mayer, whom he married in 1801. He was then in his thirty-eighth year.
Wiltshire kept all the "Gainsboroughs" he could get, reveled in them during his long life, basked and bathed his soul in their beauty, and dying, bequeathed them to his children. Had Wiltshire been moved by nothing but keen, cold, worldly wisdom which he wasn't he could not have done better.
The regiment was fed and caressed at station after station until the youth had believed that he must be a hero. There was a lavish expenditure of bread and cold meats, coffee, and pickles and cheese. As he basked in the smiles of the girls and was patted and complimented by the old men, he had felt growing within him the strength to do mighty deeds of arms.
But they're all down now and here I am!" He raised his wine-glass. "To home, and the sweetness thereof!" said Alexander. "I am glad to see you back," said Strickland, and meant it. The late sunlight streamed through the open door. Bran, the old hound, basked in it; it wiped the rust from the ancient weapons on the wall and wrote hieroglyphics in among them; it made glow the wine in the glass.
It basked in a great sun-swept plain, and away to the left a lateral valley, dimly blue, opened towards Modane and the Mont Cenis.
While Europe, during the eighth and ninth centuries, was in total darkness, Ireland alone basked in the light of science, whose lustre, shining in her numerous schools, attracted thither by its brightness the youth of all nations, whom she received with a generosity unbounded.
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