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Updated: June 16, 2025
"She set out those cherry trees over there," said Diana. "She told mother she'd never live to eat their fruit, but she wanted to think that something she had planted would go on living and helping to make the world beautiful after she was dead." "I'm so glad we came this way," said Anne, the shining-eyed.
I said something some platitude turning to go away. Then she managed to smile a shining-eyed smile saying: "Well, 'tis only for life. If 'twas for longer than that I don't know if we should hardly be able to bear it." This was but one old woman. Yet, if you have an ear for a folk-saying, you will recognize one there in that "only for life" of hers.
"Gee whiz!" he muttered softly. "If we ain't goin' ter go in a buzz-wagon! Some class ter that! Gorry! what'll Sir James say?" With the opulent purr that seems to be peculiar to luxurious limousines, Mrs. Carew's car rolled down Commonwealth Avenue and out upon Arlington Street to Charles. Inside sat a shining-eyed little girl and a white-faced, tense woman.
He squirmed when they looked at him with shining-eyed respect. He was embarrassed, also, by the necessary revelation to the Liberty's crew that he was neither the leader of a rebellion nor in command of a fleet; nor that he had performed quite all the fabulous feats credited to him.
"God must repay these men," said Mary, "because I cannot. He will not forget that they did it to a child of His, unworthy though she is." Mary was now a wrinkled, shining-eyed old lady, almost sixty years old. She was carried on board the ship that would take her to Scotland. Her friends, both white and native, cried and wondered if she would ever come back to Africa again. Journey's End
The gravity of the servants is imperturbable. One, Mr. Hawthorne calls our Methodist preacher. The service is absolutely perfect. Your affectionate child, The young Oxford graduate I remember most distinctly. He was thin, and so tall that he waved like a reed, and so shining-eyed that his eyes seemed like icebergs; they were very prominent.
Right athwart the Gap, peering into it, shining-eyed and splendid, lay the sea, calling her. "I'm coming!" her heart answered with a thrill, and she swooped toward it with a whoop and widespread arms. Her feet crashed into the jolly shouting shingle, and she ploughed her way through it, to the rocks under the cliff which made her bathing tent. The tide was brimming and beautiful.
Lakla, shining-eyed and half fearful too: "I have other tidings that I am afraid will please you little, Larry darlin'. The Silent Ones say that you must not go into battle yourself. You must stay here with me, and with Goodwin for if if the Shining One does come, then must we be here to meet it.
Slowly, for a great weariness was on him, he began to think of Pearl, the red-cheeked shining-eyed Pearl, who had singled him out for her favor ever since he came to the village six years ago; Pearl, with her contagious optimism and quaint ways, who had the good gift of putting every one in good humor.
People with delusions of grandeur sometimes get cured just by looking at something that's so much greater and more splendid than they are. I'd like to see a hospital up yonder!" Babs said, shining-eyed: "A city could be built in this valley. Not a tall city, with gray streets and gardens on the roofs. This could be a nice little city like people used to have.
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