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Updated: June 1, 2025
There was something inspiriting in the sight of these bright mountains; something life-like, that prevented us from feeling the extreme and real desolation by which we were surrounded. At times we could not help fancying that we were in a thickly-populated country a country of vast wealth and civilisation, as appeared from its architectural grandeur.
Dark hollies clinging to detached rocks present varied and life-like forms. The air has suddenly become still. The butterflies hover over the foxgloves. The wild strawberry is at your feet. The sloeberries ripen around you. The sea before you might be the Mediterranean, so gently does it ripple up to the very edge of the hundred tiny plants that force their way amid the sand.
He has, in fact, no critical sense and possibly he would regard possession of such a sense as rather an evil thing and use of it as irreverent. He does not, as a consequence, succeed in presenting us with a very life-like or convincing portrait of either the man or the saint.
She resumed that rapid walk as if she were flying through an atmosphere of invisible fiends. It felt like it. Once, by a superhuman effort, she drove her mind to contemplate the possible the winds, the flames, the waves, and him struggling among them. She saw the face which she had last seen so life-like as a dead face, with its pale, pure features and fair hair.
Leaving the window wall, we now come to the finest of all the frescoes, the magnificent scene of the "Damnation." So vivid is the realisation, so life-like the movements and gestures, that the writhing mass appears really alive, and one can almost hear the horrible clamour of the devils, and the despairing yells of the victims.
Mildred brought straw, and Ailwin tied a knot here, and another knot there, while Oliver cocked the hat in various directions upon the head, till they all forgot what they were dressing up the figure for. The reason popped into Ailwin's head again, when she had succeeded in raising the right arm to the rail, in a very life-like manner.
Above all, it was necessary that his perplexities should be unexpected, and his expedients for meeting them unexpected; yet both perplexities and expedients so real and life-like that, when we were told them, we should wonder we had not thought of them before.
At her request he was beheaded, and his head, ornamented with a paper crown, placed on the gates of York, as shown in the rather life-like or death-like etching on the preceding page.
He looked through the portfolio very carefully, but found none of those careless yet life-like sketches which had attracted the attention of Sophia Granger. "She has destroyed them, I suppose," he said to himself; and the notion of her having done so annoyed him a little. He did not care to question her about them.
Fortunately a marriage in England was not a marriage in France. I saw her last night, François" with an insane look "in the flesh and blood; as life-like as the night before we took the stage for Brighton!" Suddenly he shrieked and a look of terror replaced the vain, simpering expression. "There, François!" Glancing with awe behind him. And truly there stood a dark shadow; a gruesome presence.
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