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Enough that this superstition began to be colored a little by fancy, and his fatalism somewhat mitigated by hope. Dreams of this kind did not tend to promote his efficiency in the communistic labors of the camp, and brought him a self-isolation that, however gratifying at first, soon debarred him the benefits of that hard practical wisdom which underlaid the grumbling of his fellow-workers.
Her eccentricities were many, her nervous tendencies strange and often weird, but never had such a side of her character as she now presented been allowed to rise to the surface. At first Joan wondered as she listened. She wondered at the fierce purpose which underlaid this weakly body.
Then I became aware of the silence of a great city asleep the silence that underlaid the even voice of the breakers along the sea-front a thick, tingling quiet of warm life stilled down for its appointed time, and unconsciously I moved about the glittering shop as one moves in a sick-room. Young Mr.
I'll bet that if he had used the phrases: "Gaze, as it were, unpreoccupied, outward or rather laterally in the direction of the horizon, underlaid, so to speak, with the adjacent fluid inlet," and "Now, returning or rather, in a manner, withdrawing your attention, bestow it upon my upraised digit" I'll bet, I say, that Henry James himself could have passed the examination.
This was the great point of the evening, in the opinion of Simon Petrovitch. The Graces were then summoned, and after them the Muses all in hoops, powder, and paint. Their songs had the same burden, intense admiration of the father, and good-will for the son, underlaid with a delicate doubt.
Baird Smith, Italian Irrigation, vol. i., p. 196. The necessity of irrigation in the great alluivial plain of Northern Italy is partly explained by the fact that the superficial stratum of fine earth and vegetable mould is very extensively underlaid by beds of pebbles and gravel brought down by mountain torrents at a remote epoch.
Yet it was one of the finest regions of the world, underlaid with vitalizing limestone, a land where the grass grows thick and long and does not die even in winter.
Perhaps it was the calm sturdy strength, the courage of the young knight, that first appealed to the Prince's royal heart; perhaps afterwards it was the more sterling qualities that underlaid that courage that drew him to the young man; certain it was that in two weeks Myles was the acknowledged favorite.
These should be kept in stout manila envelopes, slightly less in size than the width and height of the drawer, and with the names of subjects contained, and arranged in alphabetical order. The carpet should be plain in design, and underlaid with padding. The curtains should be of heavier and darker stuff than those in the parlor, and easily adjusted to admit the light.
The creek seepage had turned out to be equally counterfeit, but even more ingeniously contrived. It had manifested itself where a stratum of clean white sand, underlaid with clay, outcropped at the foot of a high bank.
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