I remember every bar, how he played it, and the appearance of his long, attenuated fingers during the time he was playing.
This sensuous term is a fulcrum for the lever of signification, a point d'appui which may be indefinitely attenuated in rapid discourse, but not altogether discarded.
But were even this attenuated happiness impossible to realise, all rationality would vanish not merely from Christian charity and discipline, but from the whole Christian theory of creation, redemption, and judgment.
However, as Mr. Gladstone concludes with an official expression of regret for his error, it is my business to return an equally official expression of gratitude for the attenuated reparation with which I am favoured.
No doubt I ought to have hedged and fenced and attenuated the effect of Sir Wyville Thomson's brief note in every possible way.
How some of them could breathe our attenuated air, if they came from a gelatinous atmosphere-- Masks.
He was an attenuated and rather effeminate person, exquisitely dressed and powdered, and not without a suspicion of rouge upon his hollow cheeks, or of Vandyke brown upon his delicately pencilled eyebrows.
Those attenuated features were as regular in their lines as Greek sculpture; those hands, cramped in the death throe, were slender and delicate.
I daresay were I to conjure up his ghost for you, in his habit as he lived, you would find him a somewhat insignificant person, with a long narrow face and attenuated features.
The girl felt, sometimes, as she looked at the drooping, attenuated figure, each day growing more ethereal, that her burden was greater than she could bear.
Her all was centred in the slight, attenuated form, that lay tossing restlessly upon what might be her death-bed.
In fact, the random breeds in her were so attenuated that they were valued at eighths and sixteenths.
Out of the clear sky, filled only with stars and moonlight, fell a rain so fine and attenuated as to resemble a vapour spray.
The buds of shagbark fall into 2 classes based upon the length of the attenuated apex of the outer bud scales.
Shagbark Hickory Terminal Buds (1-X)] The longattenuated apex on the outer bud scales of the elliptical type of buds is evident in Figs.
BUDS AND TWIGS--The buds of shagbark were observed to divide themselves into two general groups based upon terminal bud shapes and two more groups based upon the sizes of the attenuated apex of the outermost bud scales.
Trousers of a kind of fustian, buttressed with leather under the knees and other places (apparently for resisting the friction involved by a life in the saddle), protected his attenuated limbs.
But one morning Dick Evans came up to Wilfred, sadly contemplating the attenuated cows which now represented the once crowded milking-yard.
And these were the furled, attenuated blooms of winter, born out of due season and nurtured in stoked warmth, like the delicate children of kings, and emanating a faint reluctant scent like the querulous sweet smile of an invalid.
From their feet trickled the attenuated thread of water which alone remained to tell the intent and reason of this leaf-covered aisle, and journeyed on in a zigzag line till lost in the shade.
He drew his breath in a slow and attenuated stream, as he waited in timorous hope for the answer.
He motioned and Cassy passed on into a room beyond which other rooms extended, each different, but all in the same key, a monotone attenuated by lustres and the atmosphere, infinitely relaxing, which wealth exhales.
Cassy foresaw, too, that the tedium would not be attenuated by Paliser's conversation.
Now, in all such cases when suitable vapours are employed in a sufficiently attenuated state, no matter what the vapour may be, the visible action commences with the formation of a blue cloud.
He was so thin and attenuated that his light weight was as nothing to Andrew Gray, who carried him in his arms as easily as if he had been a child.
The minister of Inverburn several times shivered and his hacking cough and attenuated appearance indicated that exposure was beginning to tell upon his aged frame.
On the second had been a race of immensely tall, but attenuated and physically feeble things with great heads and huge dull eyes and characters distinguished mainly for cold-blooded savagery.
In that annex were several dozen of the teetering, attenuated Rogans, and an equal number of slaves.
He had seen that attenuated monstrosity go down, and had assumed he was dead.
The screeching gargoyles, instead, devoted all their efforts to merely hurling their attenuated bodies on the two men as though they wished to capture them alive.
Through the disguise of rags, the sun-browned features, the heavy beard, and the generous and almost stalwart figure, his old and most intimate friends would have failed to recognize the delicate and attenuated man they had once known.
And like the vegetation about them, they, too, were tall and thin, attenuated of form and with skin like blood-stained ash.
A group of the attenuated figures, with their blood-and-ashes faces, regarded him curiously.
The water therefore expands and rises in the form of vapour, or water attenuated by heat.
When the cloak was thrown open in which this paragon was enveloped, Katerfelto did not fail to recognise in that worn, handsome face and attenuated form the most frequent and productive of his customers.
He retained Lothair's hand and pressed it with his pale, thin fingers; his attenuated countenance blazed for a moment with a divine light.
The leaves are of various sizes, sometimes spotted, lance-shaped, toothed, andattenuated at the base.
Our subject is irregular in every way, many of the leaves pushing out to double the length of others, and becoming attenuated at their junction, or club-shaped.
The small attenuated leaves are alternate and laxly arranged on the flower stems, which are 6in.
