Those who inspected it closely have given a clear description of its aspect; but to this day its real nature has never been determined.
When once we were clear of the Earth's atmospheric envelope, the rocket-stream engines were useless.
The lid rose a trifle higher; the colored lights overhead gave us a brief butclear view of it.
The words made the matter clearenough now to our hero.
For several minutes I could not gather what he meant; but it became quite clear when he added: '"This congregasheen is large and wealthy enough to retain a preacher unto itself.
Your clear and merry humour daily cheers And triumphs over the distress of years; And you yourself smile at the silver hairs That your lovely head so gaily wears.
You move the clear mirror that beside The window stood, And your bunch of keys strikes the drawer Of the chest of wood.
And now your dreamy fingers Reverently shape the sere Roses wherein autumn lingers, Weaving them with many a tear, Into a crown of pale, clear flakes.
How well I love you, O my clear beloved, Your swooning body, caressing and caressed, In whose depth of joy I almost drown.
XII Those clear welcoming flowers along the wall's extent Will be no longer waiting for us at our return; The silken waters that prolonged till they were spent, Under a pure sweet sky no longer reach and yearn.
Bissell's voice rang clearand cheerful as ever, but his face was anxious.
The night was cool and clear and everything was quiet all along the lines.
The road, in fact all the way to Thibodeaux, lay along the Bayou Lefourche, a clear and cool stream, on which our steamers were passing bearing the sick and baggage.
After a sharp skirmish of half an hour we drove them clear out of the woods and into their rifle-pits.
It sits in the lap of an amphitheater of hills which are three hundred to seven hundred feet high, and carefully cultivated clear to their summits--not a foot of soil left idle.
Tangier is clear out of the world, and what is the use of visiting when people have nothing on earth to talk about?
If a certain species will not produce clear lumber, which is straight-grained, easily worked, and not subject to splitting or warping, it is at once classed as inferior.
When this method is used the purchaser is required to clear a fire line around the area to be burned and to furnish adequate help to the Forest officer who supervises the burning.
But he added with great enthusiasm, "Since the Service has taken charge the sky around here is as clear as crystal all summer.
Miss Rooney, slippin' him a smile that should have had him clear through the ropes.
It wasclear she wa'n't any highbrow, such as Father must have been.
In the middle of a clearspace is a big brown tent, with the flap pinned back.
He was red cheeked, clear eyed, then, and he had a normal brain.
We'd gone clear through the menu, and they was finishin' up their cordials, when I spots the waiter comin' with a slip of paper on his tray as long as a pianola roll.
I read three evenin' papers clear through from the weather forecast to the bond quotations, and I finished by goin' sound asleep in my chair.
But how was I going to dope out to her clear and straight what's so muddled up in my own head?
I remember it, and since then your words, often meditated, have acquired a terrible and clear meaning.
There was now no means of arguing upon the illusion of suffering: the lashes of presentiment cut his back so keenly and severely that it was clear the hand could not be wheedled by any reasoning.
A clear and spontaneous "yes" would have thrown me instantly into your arms.
Though he generally was incapable of giving a clear account of his impressions, he felt himself rejuvenated, and this astonished him.
Upon arising, he was another person, and certitude, pure and clear certitude did not abandon him an instant until evening.
He loved her and she smiled upon his love, except on certain days when a light cloud made ashen the pure face or the clear eyes of the beloved.
Clear and animate, the portrait gazes on me; it is, feature for feature, that of the woman with the reptile.
When you learn it, you will understand, and this very reticence will seem clear to you.
Florian Reicher, twenty-three years old, is accused of shooting at Fritz Schlipitska's affianced wife, with the clear intention of killing her.
If I'd made clear to her what she really was, I'd have lost her favour that moment--and it was precisely her favour I wanted to keep.
With this system of thought, which was supposed to be a master key, all locks were to be picked, all questions answered and all opponents confuted--everything was clear and simple.
The accused man certainly has a right to the services of counsel, but in the present case I think the facts are so clear that the people have reached a certain conclusion; and the murderer will hardly be able to regain their sympathy.
She, my pure white notepaper, was scribbled all over; her clear and lovely features changed in imitation of the satyr-like looks of strange men.
For the whole world shined with clear light and none were hindered in their labour.
So we're all guilty and not one of us is without blemish; and I believe my victim had no clear conscience either.
If a fish can jumpclear of the water he can very often shake the hook out of his mouth.
The water was just as clear as crystal and just as I lay down I saw a big old trout shoot under a big rock at the bottom of the pool.
Before many moments had passed the Balsam was once more sailing over the clearwaters of the lake and in a short time the four boys arrived back at camp.
Keep that sheet clear of everything," cried Grant, who usually assumed command in every crisis.
Her eye was clear and gray though, he noticed, and she had a pleasing smile.
A very intelligent woman of perhaps fifty-five or sixty with bright grey hair and clear light blue eyes was coming out with a book in her hand.
Her eyes were as clear as water; her skin as radiant new ivory.
She took good care to make it clear to the manager at Pottle Freres that she was doing this so that Eugene could have the money and saw to it that the check reached him promptly.
Eugene noted the wide space between his clear blue eyes as he talked.
He was a tight, smiling youth, as sound as oak, as clear as good water.
She had her wonderful wealth of hair and her large, luring, water-clear blue eyes.
He really did not understand the theory of news, and Williams could only make it partially clear to him.
In this atmosphere, with a fairly clear comprehension of the elements which were at work making the colour of the life about him, was Eugene, digging away at the task he had set himself.
That will make a clear two months since we first talked of this.
Winfield, so he told Eugene, expected eventually to clear six or eight million dollars himself.
After some particularly riotous scenes the police were called on to clear the court.
Also I will tell you how a hunter should go in quest among clear spires, and among high trees, and specially when it has rained the night before and in the morning.
The original sense is a smooth, bare place, or perhaps a bright, clear place in a wood.
And the place where the gathering shall be made should be in a fair mead well green, where fair trees grow all about, the one far from the other, and a clear well or beside some running brook.
In a few cases where, through the omission of words, the sense was left undetermined, it has been made clear after carefully consulting other English MSS.
Eke in the time when the heads of the harts be tender, commonly they abide among clear spires and in high woods, for a thick country peradventure would do harm to their heads which be tender.
His dissatisfaction with segregation became clear when he pointed out that although Jim Crow facilities might be separate they were never equal.
It soon became clear that the Bill would be entangled in a gigantic Congressional debate for months.
Like Gandhi, King wanted to make clear that nonviolence was not the same as nonresistance.
It wasclear that the legal system itself supported the position of Southern racists.
While Lincoln had made it clear that he himself opposed slavery, he also insisted that his political position, as well as that of the party, was to oppose the extension of slavery rather than to abolish it.
It became clear that nothing would change without strong government action, and it was also evident that this would not occur unless the entire Afro-American community could exert united, political pressure.
However, almost everywhere there was a clear trend toward increasing centralized authority and decreasing popular participation.
King made it clearthat nonviolent resistance was concerned with morality and justice and not merely with obtaining specific goals.
It became clear that the mutual fear between the police and the citizens had only intensified the catastrophe.
The difference between a warrior and a trader was especially clear to their untutored minds, they themselves being much better fighters than men of commerce.
It is also clear that he possessed sufficient social standing to warrant the use of de.
It was a time when the maritime states of Western Europe were all keenly interested in America, without having any clear idea of the problem.
This basis of compromise makes it clear that Pontgrave was in charge of the season's trade, while Champlain's personal concern was to found the settlement.
Champlain makes it clear that he did not credit Vignau's tale with the simple credulity of a man who has never been to sea.
Within two generations from the time of Columbus it became clear that America did not yield bonanza to every adventurer.
We must be clear about it, and we must confess that the divisions of the church are due to the invasion of a foreign spirit, an unclean spirit, into the Church.
All that caged water, held behind a flimsy-seeming sheet of clear foam, the corners joined with strips of thick gasket-rubber.
It was a clearaquarium tank, fifteen meters long and nearly seventeen high, and eight meters deep.
Clear observation and the wit to discern significances would have made satirists and commentators of the most subtle kind.
It was not her medium of expression, but it gave her a clear measure of the difference between the Oriental and Occidental philosophies of the dance.
Direct practical instruction is furnished on the subject of present-day ballroom dancing, to the extent of clear and exact directions for the performance of steps now fashionable in Europe and America.
Directly he heard him clear the range of the door, and before he could glance round the dungeon, he threw the door back, and, while he thus cut off his retreat, prepared to reduce him to subjection.
It was clear that she spoke the truth, and that she thought, in the confidence and simplicity of her nature, that he would believe her; for she had never uttered a falsehood yet.
It was clear that, say what he might, Bernard would be able to draw but little information from the wily trader; but, for all this, he was not inclined to let his project fall to the ground.
She determined, therefore, pursuant to her original intention, to seek him in the garden, and lend him her aid to get clear off.
Perhaps you run over a bridge with the clear brook sparkling and babbling beneath.
Some of the trees bend over the river as if they were looking at their reflections in the clear water.
He could save others; but it was clear he could not save himself.
That picture of the girl against the twilight, her figure silhouetted in the clear air, had come to him in sleeping and waking dreams, the type and sign of an everlasting melancholy.
Full clear blue eyes, healthy and untired as a child's fresh from an all-night's drowse, they looked and looked.
Well, it is a mystery which time no doubt will clear up.
Clear the room," he said to Filion Lacasse, who was now a constable of the parish.
It is for what you were they will arrest you," she said helplessly, and as though he needed to have all made clear to him.
It was clear to him that death by his own hand was futile, and that if there were trap-doors set for him alone, it were well to wait until he trod upon them and fell through in his appointed hour in the movement of the Great Machine.
The Cure had made it clearto her that she could carry to her grave the secret of the little cross and the work it had done, and so keep her word and still not injure her chances of salvation.
Come, Jo, clear out, and you shall have your new habitant in a minute," he said.
Go back, and bring Billy to justice, and clear his own name?
Yet here was mystery, and it was clear the tailor had something important to say.
Isn't it clear that the things that make us happiest in this world are the things we go for blind?
It must be clear to the minds of judge and jury that there were fatally weak places in the circumstantial evidence offered for the conviction of this man.
Do not think me too sanguine in the belief that Louisiana is now clear of the enemy.
The attack of Jackson was to the British like a bolt of lightning from a clear sky.
I guess Xuarez brought the guns to bear on The Bohemian, and ordered Philip to clear out.
His senses were clear now, and he could recall everything up to a certain point.
Under the clear sky lay the field of the dead, and as Jack stepped gently across the prostrate bodies he could not help shuddering.
We shall have a clear twenty-four hours in which to sink The Pizarro.
Hitherto he had spoken in a low tone, clear and distinct, but distinguished by no oratorical fire.
The moon shining brightly made all things as clear as day, and all around, at intervals of a yard, arose the mighty images, between which was but smooth wall.
They swept down the slope, the high sweet notes rising clear above the clatter.
Very likely it will be clear sailing for you, but it is my belief that some of us will run into a squall when we have left Leif and gone to our own homes, and it becomes known to our kinsmen that we are no longer Odin-men.
Now is the whole of my folly clear to me for the first time.
A long clear day under a warm sun was alone a gift to be thankful for.
The chief walked behind him with a face that was not only clear but almost radiant.
As he felt their clear gaze, it came back to him what it meant to take a human life,--to change a living breathing body like his own into a heap of still, dead clay.
