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Updated: May 17, 2025
There was something so statue-like in this immovable wild creature that Fleda had watched it till it was hid from her view by a jutting rock.
The last sketch of hers I have seen in my Southern visits was of two children, a boy and girl, the youngest holding a silver goblet, like the one she held that evening when I I was so struck with her statue-like beauty.
The first appearance of all three for, thank God! she was alone the astonishment, the countenance of all have never left my memory. Our fixed eyes, our statue-like immobility, and our embarrassment were all alike, and lasted longer than a slow Pater-poster. The Princess spoke first.
As Rip and his companion approached them, they suddenly desisted from their play, and stared at him with such a fixed statue-like gaze, and such strange uncouth, lack-lustre countenances, that his heart turned within him, and his knees smote together. His companion now emptied the contents of the keg into large flagons, and made signs to him to wait upon the company.
His thought, in the moment of terror, is for himself: first, suicide; then, what he shall do, not to save his household, not to fulfil his duty to his office, not to repair the outrage he has been committing, but to secure his own personal safety. Truly, character shows itself as much in a man's way of becoming a Christian as in any other! Elsie sat, statue-like, through the sermon.
But the sentinel, still as marble, or moving like a well-adjusted machine that will not defy law he stirs us by his energy, his laboring vigilance. His care for others would make him surrender his life at once. The trusted soldier has left selfishness and cowardice on the first tenting-ground, and works hard, though he stands statue-like. It is his business to be of use, and he is never useless.
And, lo and behold, though we had left Miss B. tied and sealed to her chair, and clad in an ordinary black dress somewhat voluminous as to the skirts, a tall female figure draped classically in white, with bare arms and feet, did enter at the open door, or rather down the centre from between the two rugs, and stood statue-like before us, spoke a few words, and retired; after which we entered the Bedouin tent and found pretty Miss B. with her dress as before, knots and seals secure, and her boots on!
During all this time, Hester stood, statue-like, at the foot of the scaffold. If the minister's voice had not kept her there, there would, nevertheless, have been an inevitable magnetism in that spot, whence she dated the first hour of her life of ignominy.
With the black crepon skirt she wore a heliotrope blouse, and she stood, one foot showing beyond the skirt, in a statue-like attitude, her pale parasol held negligently over one shoulder. "My dear," she said, "I have come to ask you to let me lunch with you." "But I shall be enchanted, my dear. I wrote on the chance, never thinking that you would be in town this season." "Yes, it is strange.
On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand! The agate lamp within thy hand, Ah! Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land! It is the tendency of the young poet that impresses us.
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