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But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! To spare the grossness of the names, and to do the thing yet more severely, is to draw a full face, and to make the nose and cheeks stand out, and yet not to employ any depth of shadowing.
Thinking that with two of them I might destroy the railroad bridges east of Lynchburg, I concluded, after the Mosby man had been brought to my headquarters by Lomas about 12 o'clock one night, to give him employment, at the same time informing Colonel Young that I suspected their fidelity, however, and that he must test it by shadowing their every movement.
She faltered the last few words. Kurt felt on common ground with her then. The sudden break in her voice, the change in her face, the shadowing of the blue eyes these were eloquent. "Oh, it's horrible this need of war!" she exclaimed. "Yes," he replied, simply. "But maybe your brother will not be called." "Called! Why, he refused to wait for the draft! He went and enlisted.
His brother sat with a drooping brow, In the gloom of the shadowing cypress bough. We roused him we bade him no longer pine; For we heard a step but that step was thine. HEMANS. 'What was that cry of joy, Oriana? exclaimed Henrich, as one evening during their journey, he and his companion had strayed a little from their party, who were seeking a resting-place for the night.
Then he picked up the bundle Nada had brought, and dived through the jackpines, with Peter at his heels. Swiftly they moved through the shadowing dusk of the plain, and came at last to the Stew-Kettle, and to their hiding-place under the shoulders of Gog and Magog.
Against the back-ground of the world she lived in Becky could have been painted as meekly white and beautiful as that lovely old picture of St. Cecilia at the Choir Organ. Perhaps Becky was not strictly a heroine; but she was a honey. Men can not "create" heroines in the sense of shadowing forth what they conceive to be the glory, beauty, courage and splendor of womanly character.
Cabs moved to and fro, shuttle fashion, but seemingly no pedestrians were following behind him. He was not particularly fearful of being pursued. Since he had cleared out from the Clarenden without mishap it was scarcely to be figured that anyone would or could now be shadowing him.
But the next moment she had searched the very soul in me with her eyes during that instant she led me in, and dropped the shadowing hood of her gray, draping cloak, which had previously hid part of the character of her countenance. The cottage was rude and bare enough. But before the picture of the Virgin, of which I have made mention, there stood a little cup filled with fresh primroses.
Tinman's posture stood for Attainment shadowing Expectation, and sunning itself in the glass of Envy, as he spoke of the appointed day. It was involuntary, and naturally evanescent, a momentary view of the spirit. He unbent, and begged to be excused for the present, that he might go and apprise his sister of guests coming. "All right.
He was absorbed in the picture she made sitting there by the lamp, near the fire, her red mouth smiling to itself a little, and her black lashes shadowing her cheeks as her hands moved deftly at her work. John himself, on the other side of the fire, had a paper across his knees, but he forgot to read it, watching her.
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