ivory-soft

Updated: May 12, 2025

Stopped by some invisible, intangible barrier, which despite all his efforts, forcibly prevented him from advancing one step further, she was close within an arm's length of him and yet he could not touch her! ... Nothing apparently divided them, save a small breadth of the Ardath blossoms gleaming ivory-soft in the moonlight ... nevertheless that invincible influence thrust him back and held him fast, as though he were chained to the ground with weights of iron!

Marie Corelli - Ardath