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Among them, with that majesty that only a liner entering a harbour has, she went, progressed, had her moving English contains no word for such a motion "incessu patuit dea." A goddess entering fairyland, I thought; for the huddled beauty of these buildings and the still, silver expanse of the water seemed unreal.
It was a series of smooth undulations, not vulgar strides, but swift rushes, in which the loins seemed to propel the whole body, and the feet scarcely to touch the ground. It was the vigor and freedom of a savage, with the grace of a lady. And so it was she swept across the sands and up the slope, "Et vera incessu patuit Dea."
He'll write it." "But how does he know?" "Know it's the real thing? Oh I'm sure that when you see it you do know. Vera incessu patuit dea!" "It's you, Miss Erme, who are a 'dear' for bringing me such news!" -I went all lengths in my high spirits. "But fancy finding our goddess in the temple of Vishnu!
So he died, and she very imprudently married the master knacker, who had heard she was an heiress in her own right, and wanted to decorate his coat-of-arms with an escutcheon of pretence; and besides, his doctor had recommended a complete change " "Law, miss, how you do run on!" As she paced to and fro between the leaden statuettes pedes vestis defluxit ad imos Et vera incessu patuit dea,
As soon as he had said it he might have known that he was a fool; but Vanna's large grey eyes loomed upon him to swallow him up, her colour of faint rose glowed over him and throbbed. Vera incessu patuit dea! "By her presence ye shall judge her," quoth the prior to himself, and hid his eyes.
"Incessu patuit Dea." The self-conquest of her Ascetics, the patience of her Martyrs, the irresistible determination of her Bishops, the joyous swing of her advance, both exalted and abashed me. I said to myself, "Look on this picture and on that;" I felt affection for my own Church, but not tenderness; I felt dismay at her prospects, anger and scorn at her do-nothing perplexity.
Raleigh could not have been more unfortunate than he was in meeting her, since it gave him reason and excuse henceforth for visiting the Bawn at all seasons. The table was at last removed, the dew began to fall, Mrs. Laudersdale shivered and withdrew toward the house. "Incessu patet dea," Mr. Raleigh remembered.
Straight up to my mother she walked, a poor word to describe her sweet and stately motion, et vera incessu patuit dea, as the master has it, curtsied low and nobly to her and said, "Mistress Wheatman, I am a stranger in distress, and should have been in danger but for your son, who has served me and saved me as only a brave and courteous gentleman could."
"Incessu patuit Dea." The self-conquest of her ascetics, the patience of her martyrs, the irresistible determination of her bishops, the joyous swing of her advance, both exalted and abashed me. I said to myself, "Look on this picture and on that;" I felt affection for my own Church, but not tenderness; I felt dismay at her prospects, anger and scorn at her do-nothing perplexity.
There are continual glimpses of something in him greater than he, hints of possibilities finer than anything he has done. You feel that the whole of him was better than any random specimens, though of his best, seem to prove. Incessu patet, he has by times the large stride of the elder race, though it sinks too often into the slouch of a man who has seen better days.
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