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The handwriting of the announcement was crude and labored, and the boy felt sure he had never seen it before. He glanced with some excitement at the ruins of the old express shed, then he went over there. The embers had died down entirely, and the mass of ashes and debris was sparkless and cold. Bart went to a near railroad scrap heap and selected a long iron rod crowbar crooked at the end.
It may be said that 'the world's slow stain' the lowering influence of the aims and associations of all ordinary human life is the main subject-matter of Shelley's latest important poem, The Triumph of Life. With sparkless ashes. See the cognate expression, 'thy cold embers, in st. 38. +Stanza 41,+ 1. 1. He lives, he wakes 'tis Death is dead, not he.
It was dark when I opened the front door and walked into the house. I wondered how my fire would be; the night was cold, and I shuddered at the prospect of a grate full of sparkless cinders. To my joyful surprise, I found, on entering my sitting-room, a good fire and a clean hearth.
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny, and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again; From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain; Nor, when the spirit's self has ceased to burn, With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn.
The guy who refused to dig up, went sparkless and smokeless to bed. But what did we care? We had the immortal cinch on him, and if he got fresh, two or three of us would pitch on him and give him "what-for." You see, this was the working-theory of the hall-men. There were thirteen of us. We had something like half a thousand prisoners in our hall.
Nevertheless, they allowed themselves to be taken through the monotonous streets without displaying impatience, looking at the shops and people with sparkless eyes, overcome by a numbness that made them feel stupid, and which they endeavoured to shake off by bursting into fits of laughter.
Such a form of twin conductor trolley will permit the collection of a heavy current through the twin contact of the pantagraph with the two trolley wires, and should assure a sparkless collection of the current at any speed. You noticed that when I took the sharper curves there was an aerial exhibition. I want to do away with the fireworks."
What was the matter with her? Why did she feel so grey, so plain, so sparkless? "I ought to rouge a little," she said. "Everyone else does." He protested quickly and strongly. "But," she said, "if I'm tired? If I'm a fright? What then?" "I shouldn't like my wife to make up." "But, Osborn, I want you to think I'm pretty, well turned out, smart, like all the other women here."
For a moment she felt the waters of an immemorial ennui rise high in her own soul, then drop to the grinning skulls and sparkless ashes of old pleasures. She shuddered back, and raised her eyes once more to the haughty mask opposite. "I think I understand," she said, gently. "But you must go. I kept him from seeing you to-night. But he would find out in time.
Oh! that was a great mortification on field-days, when we were allowed to incorporate with the and Volunteers, whilst all the big lads actually fired off real powder, in line with real men, to be obliged to snap a wooden flint against a sparkless hammer. A mortification I could not, would not, endure.
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