going-in

Updated: May 10, 2025

She did not return again, but a page appeared instead, ushering in with ceremonious civility a tall personage, clad in flowing white robes and muffled up to the eyes in a mantle of silver tissue, a majestic, mysterious, solemn-looking individual, who, pausing on the threshold of the apartment, described a circle in the air with a small staff he carried, and said in monotonous accents: "By the going-in and passing-out of the Sun through the Gates of the East and the Gates of the West, by the Vulture of Gold and White Lotus and the countless virtues of Nagaya, may peace dwell in this house forever!"

Marie Corelli - Ardath

Do you suppose I should have gone and humbled myself to those people, but for hoping to bring the parson to a sense of what he was doing in going-in for those enormous damages?" "I have not come home to you with any invention, mamma. Dr. Ashton has entered the action." "He has not," raved the dowager. "It is an infamous hoax you have played off upon me.

Mrs. Henry Wood - Elster's Folly : A Novel