Her face was oblong, and her features so replete with an expression of innocence and youth, as left on thebeholder a conviction that she breathed of utter guilelessness and angelic purity itself.
He was first at the trysting-place, but he had not been long in waiting when he saw Jessie coming down the trail, a picture of sunny beauty, which the eye of the beholder could rest upon without any feeling of weariness.
Occasionally a nondescript representative of the almost extinct races may be observed, disillusioning the mind of the beholder of whatever romantic notions he may have imbibed from the pages of Fenimore Cooper.
One sees buildings and courts the decorations and general appearance of which leave the beholder in doubt as to whether they are theatre or temple.
Rising magnificently at the crest of a bleak expanse of snow, the embrasured battlements, silhouetted against the sunset sky, might well have suggested to a beholder grim thoughts of mediaeval strongholds and robber barons.
There must be some expression in her face which she herself had never seen, which she could never summon from its reflection in the mirror, an expression of desire, impersonal it might be, but moving the beholder to a personal response.
He arises brighter and stronger from every fiery ordeal of criticism, and stands out to every beholderas the greatest benefactor of the race and the only Saviour from sin and ruin.
Before this figure, twice transformed into stone, and yet so inimitably animated--before this line of demarkation of all human suffering, the most callous beholder is dissolved in tears.
Dazzled by gold and costly gems, how should thebeholder do justice to the charms of a clear complexion, to neck, and eye, and arm, and finger?
For words have wings; they are no sooner out of the mouth than they take flight and are lost: but the delight of the eyes is ever present, ever draws the beholder to itself.
It was a quality that at first caught the beholder like the shock of a plunge into cold water, and then set him tingling through his pulses--also like a plunge into an icy pool.
They were good eyes, of the sort that look life straight in the face, and their pupils were such as impress the beholder with a conviction of fearless integrity.
The mouth is enclosed by an immense cage, intended to preserve the beholder from the vertiginous attractions of its depth.
If, excited by a momentary daring, the beholder moved towards the light upon which he gazed, it fled from him.
The simplicity and sublimity of revelation shine down from them, and make the beholder speechless with the thought of divine love.
He has made them intricate and teeming with imagery, giving the beholder much food for study and personal interpretation.
All of these panels so tone their brilliancy into the great sweep of the ceiling that the beholder gets a sense of the beauty of the whole rather than that of any part.
They caught the beholder and held him, as might the sudden sight of a rose in snow, or the morning star hanging luminous among the mists of dawn.
The wisestbeholder could not say if the importance were joy or sorrow.
One of three fabled sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snaky hair and of terrific aspect, the sight of whom turned the beholder to stone.
He fills his landscape with church spires and silver streams, not because he supposes that either were in sight at Bethlehem, but to remind the beholder of the peaceful course and succeeding power of Christianity" (Modern Painters, vol.
There is a striking peculiarity in all his movements that convinces the beholder that he is one among ten thousand.
The countenance of the monarch was pale, and his whole appearance gave the beholder to understand that he was one of the unhappiest of mortals.
Their whole bearing gave the beholder to understand that they were persons of distinction.
It was a certain indescribable, whitish, lurid light, flashing and quivering over his countenance, that made thebeholder involuntarily recoil.
It comes up out of the distance and goes down into the distance again, and it is named Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean.
The beholder either recognizes it as a projected form of his own Being, that moves before him with a Glory round its head, or recoils from it as from a Spectre.
In this altar they used to keep one of the most curious relics that human eyes ever looked upon--a thing that had power to fascinate the beholder in some mysterious way and keep him gazing for hours together.
