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Nature might at least have paused to shed one tear over this rough jacketed little son of hers, for his wasted aims, his cancelled ambitions, his whole career of usefulness cut suddenly short. But not a bit of it! Jubilant as ever, her song went bubbling on, and "Death-in-Life," and again, "Life-in-Death," were its alternate burdens.
It's like having life-in-death in the very house. Oh, Steve, can't you talk him into going to a sanitarium? They'd have so many interesting kinds of baths to try!" "He won't mind your parties, if that is what is bothering you. The only thing he asks is to be left in peace in his room with plenty of detective stories and plenty of medical attention, and he won't know if you dance the roof off.
After his departure, Mr Benson took his Welsh grammar and tried again to master the ever-puzzling rules for the mutations of letters; but it was of no use, for his thoughts were absorbed by the life-in-death condition of the young creature, who was lately bounding and joyous.
There was something about them, an indescribable sort of silent vitality that suggested, to my broadening consciousness, a state of life-in-death a something that was by no means life, as we understand it; but rather an inhuman form of existence, that well might be likened to a deathless trance a condition in which it was possible to imagine their continuing, eternally.
A vision of the Shining One swirling into our world, a monstrous, glorious flaming pillar of incarnate, eternal Evil of peoples passing through its radiant embrace into that hideous, unearthly life-in-death which I had seen enfold the sacrifices of armies trembling into dancing atoms of diamond dust beneath the green ray's rhythmic death of cities rushing out into space upon the wings of that other demoniac force which Olaf had watched at work of a haunted world through which the assassins of the Dweller's court stole invisible, carrying with them every passion of hell of the rallying to the Thing of every sinister soul and of the weak and the unbalanced, mystics and carnivores of humanity alike; for well I knew that, once loosed, not any nation could hold this devil-god for long and that swiftly its blight would spread!
But the interval of blank, after the loss of her mother and during her father's life-in-death, had made her all the more ready to value and cling to sympathy first from Jenny, and now from Mr Bellingham. No coming shadow threw its gloom over this week's dream of happiness a dream which was too bright to be spoken about to common and indifferent ears. Treading in Perilous Places
Gently but firmly refusing the importunities of the Church, Vauvenargues was released from his life-in-death on May 28, 1747, in his thirty-second year.
"The nightmare Life-in-Death was he, That thicks men's blood with cold." Brandon stood while his blood ran chill, and his breath came fast. If that Form had suddenly thrown off its sandy coverlet and risen to his feet, and advanced with extended hand to meet him, he would not have been surprised, nor would he have been one whit more horror-stricken. Brandon stood fixed. He could not move.
She always, indeed, struck Newland Archer as having been rather gruesomely preserved in the airless atmosphere of a perfectly irreproachable existence, as bodies caught in glaciers keep for years a rosy life-in-death.
"The Night-Mare Life-in-death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold." "Yes, the other is worse! I can hardly tell why, except it be that you get at the sense of it easier. What does the Nightmare Life-in-Death mean?" "I don't know. I can't quite get at it." How should he? Richard was too close to the awful phantom to know that this was her portrait.
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