That dimness increased apace, and still he had not found the path.
He made his way cautiously, lest he might tread on some rattlesnake or other serpent, which could not be as easily seen in the dimness of the forest as in the path by the river.
Together they fronted the winds and the quick showers and the bright rays, saw the rainbow lift over the dark sea, watched its passionate colour die and the sunbright foam fade to pearly dimness or break over water turned to vivid blue.
Passing round the small copse they came to an opening, and in the dimness saw some large grey stones inside.
It was not indeed dark--unless there are clouds, the nights of summer are not dark--but the dimness that results from uncertain definition was equally bewildering.
With which Isabel was grateful for the dimness of the room; she felt as if her face were hideously insincere.
The thought was painful, and the lady retreated through her vestibule into the dimness of the hall beyond.
A dimness and a silence instinct with departed grandeur and infinite mournfulness reigned there.
Amidst the invading dimness and the quivering silence the ascent of the stairs seemed interminable to Pierre, who by the time he reached the second-floor landing imagined that he had been climbing for ages.
As soon as their eyes became accustomed to the dimness they were able to distinguish the spacious, blackened, malodorous chamber, whose only furniture consisted of some roughly made tables and benches.
That dimness which spreads itself over the world at nightfall, wrapping it up as in a vaporous shroud, has a mystic power over our nature.
The inflation of her long plain dress and the brighteneddimness of her proud face were still in the air.
The girl might in fact have been a political duchess as she sat, her head erect and her gloved hands folded, smiling with aristocratic dimness at Nick.
He thus, to pursue our image, planted his supports in thedimness beneath all cursing, and on the platform so improvised was able, in his relief, to dance.
The dimness of evening had grown rapidly through the room while they talked and now the light from the door was far less than the glow of the fire.
She seemed at liberty to roam about in the cave as long as she did not go near the entrance, and now the shadows and the dimness no longer frightened her.
When she glanced around her, she made out vague forms through the dimness that might be the uneven walls of the cave, or might be strange and awful forms of night.
So in the dimness Pierre fumbled, by force of habit, at his throat, and found the cross which he wore by a silver chain about his throat.
I wish--" The dimness of her eyes encouraged him with a hope.
The June afternoon was softening to a rosy dimnessas he came in, very tired physically, hot and grimy, and sick of soul.
In the dimness of the great sheds Bettina flitted silently like a white moth from place to place.
Ahead of them was the dimness of the hemlock forest; the solitude of the storm.
Glittering sand-hills slumber in breezy dimness around the land-locked harbour, and over the faint peaks of Yemen's distant mountains the unclouded sky floats bright and blue.
She was going to have room for the energies which stirred uneasily under the dimness and pressure of her own ignorance and the petty peremptoriness of the world's habits.
From the dimness of the taper it appeared unable to make out what approached, for the ghost now took up the snuffers, and snuffed the candle as scientifically as if it had once inhabited the tallow-tainted carcass of a scene-shifter.
There lived in that neighbourhood a certain thegn, whose wife was seized with a sudden dimness in her eyes, and as the malady increased daily, it became so burdensome to her, that she could not see the least glimpse of light.
And in the dimness and solitude which kept no more trace of the three strangers than if they had been the merest ghosts I seemed to hear the ghostly murmur, “Américain, Catholique et gentilhomne.
I slunk past it with only a side glance and sought the dimness of quiet streets away from the centre of the usual night gaieties of the town.
The greater then was my surprise to enter a hall paved in black and white marble and in its dimness appearing of palatial proportions.
There was only one rose-shaded lamp left alight in the long low room, and the dimness within made it possible to see out into the clear night and distinguish objects easily.
Geoffrey's door was wide open and his room was empty, but through the dimness of the long hall she discerned his figure, outlined against a wide window at the end.
But though his eyes were shut, he could still see those two figures walking together in the dreamydimness of the spring forest.
In the dimness the color of her hair and gown gave a stained-glass effect against a background of high square east window.
A glassy brightness suddenly shot over them; a dimness followed like the shadows of death.
The city's old cold front suddenly gleamed out in vivid gold, the spires grew rosy in the first rays of sunlight, and, all its dimness and dulness gone, Hastings lay gleaming and glowing in the fair morning light like some vision of fairyland.
Often, when we see strange forms moving in the dimness of distance, our hearts beat with a painful anxiety to know what or whom they may be, and what they are doing.
He was lying on beds of flowers in the twilight dimness of a thick, beautiful forest.
And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
Once in the cathedral, Westerham paused to accustom his eyes to the dimness of the light.
The lights were shaded so that the hard lines on her face were softened, and in the dimness of the pretty room she looked the really beautiful woman she once must have been.
Such is the dimness that this brightness produces, that the peasantry frequently lose their way in the fields in the glare of day; but on the approach of night they can see distinctly.
I have known a number of men and women subject to nervous complaints, who could not use tea in any form without feeling a sudden increase of all their unpleasant symptoms; particularly acidity of the stomach, vertigo, and dimness of the eyes.
Severe headache, with dizziness and dimnessof sight, followed.
This girl described the paroxysm as coming on with a dimness of sight and a noise in the head.
