It came with a swirl of paddles in the black void enveloping the great river.
She conceived the world as one immense censer into which men and women poured their all, and from which a wondrous white smoke, a scent incredibly lovely, rose continually, enveloping the universe.
Somewhere off in the enveloping fog that made all the world a gray chaos, lumbering, crawling monsters rammed and battered at each other at infinitely short range.
Then, as they spoke of the mystery and sadness enveloping the whole affair, and the deep sorrow occasioned by my supposed death, I learned of the suffering that my precious wife had experienced.
Great angry forks leaped from window to window and then shot upward, enveloping the wooden cornice in sheets of flame.
In short, it spins for itself the further positive consideration of a nonentity {72} enveloping the being of its datum; and as that leads nowhere, back recoils the thought toward its datum again.
Everywhere indeterminate variables, subject only to these few vague enveloping laws, independent in all besides.
After the camp meal was over and the desert grey of the soft night had begun to wrap itself like an enveloping cloak about the two camps, as quietly and without warning of their presence natives of that weird tract of earth began to appear.
By now there was a torrentenveloping us up to our knees.
When we reached him, there was but a crumpled heap of black and white garments enveloping a bleached white skeleton.
And that fleeting mirth became a warm, all-enveloping grin when he had detailed the climax of the Judge's prearranged sensation that same night.
Something loomed large and white below the brake, but the voice seemed to be on a level with her, and almost she fancied she could catch the gleam of his eyes in the enveloping darkness.
Opposite her, dark half-closed eyes full of malice and some other hateful quality passed over her in a gloating enveloping stare.
Good-naturedly he had taken hold of his fare and, as he spoke, was helping the stranger unwrap himself from the enveloping cloak.
The mystery enveloping her origin, which for some reason Mrs. Frost had never chosen to dispel, gave a certain piquancy to the interest and affection Tom felt for her.
To the east rise prodigious hills and mountains; they are Gibil Muza and his chain; and yon tall fellow is the peak of Tetuan; the grey mists of evening are enveloping their sides.
The Calymma, or the thick extracapsular jelly-veil, completely enveloping the whole central capsule.
Patagium incomplete, envelopingonly the basal half of the arms.
Originally this shell is probably everywhere an extracapsular or "cortical shell," which is developed on the outside of the jelly-veil enveloping the central capsule, and serves as a protective carapace for these soft enclosed parts.
Patagium complete, with four to five rectilinear parallel chamber-rows, enveloping the whole arms (with exception of the terminal spines) and forming a perfect equilateral triangle.
Sheaths very large, truncated conical, enveloping the spines almost entirely, with crested wall, only half as broad at the constricted mouth as at the base.
Patagium complete, very large, enveloping the whole shell, and forming a pentagon with rectilinear base and transverse constriction, and with five rounded corners.
Patagium incomplete, enveloping only the basal half of the arms, forming a regular square with concave sides.
Patagium complete, enveloping the arms completely, so that the whole body represents a regular hexagonal disk.
The clearer complete patagium, enveloping the whole cross perfectly, forms a regular square with rounded edges.
Patagium incomplete, enveloping only the basal half of the arms with three to four convex chamber-rows.
The simplest of these are the Ethmosphaerida, with one single lattice-shell, enveloping the spherical central capsule.
The extracapsulum is formed by the large, structureless, spherical calymma or concentric jelly-veil enveloping the capsule, and by the thin granular matrix or the layer of exoplasm which separates the calymma from the membrane.
The form assumed by his malady was arachnitis, an inflammation of the network of nerves enveloping the brain.
This flattery was the jam enveloping the information that he had drawn on his publisher for another fifteen hundred francs; there was also a promise made that he would come back with his pockets full of manuscripts.
The exact time when theseenveloping masses were heaped up, and how much of them were formed during submergence, and how much after the re-elevation of the temple, cannot be made out with certainty.
After these observations on the nature of the strata enveloping and surrounding the cities, we may proceed to consider their internal condition and contents, so far at least as they offer facts of geological interest.
Beneath the enveloping brown paper was an encasing of the corrugated cardboard in which breakables are packed.
At last the sparks falling from the lurid heavens ignited this sea of alcohol, which surged in bluish, spectral waves, enveloping the wretches, drowning while it set them on fire.
The very uncertainty of the sketch lent to it an ethereal, almost supernatural character, enveloping it in that vague, ideal film which veils the figures in a dream.
I should be glad to believe you," said Reuben, enveloping her in a glance of fire.
The greave was a rigid gaiter fitting at first only over the front of the leg below the knee, but afterwards enveloping it; and it was either of metal or cuir-bouilli.
A ridged knee-defence of cuir-bouilli or plate envelopingthe knee, over the mail.
To the east rise prodigious hills and mountains: they are Gibil Muza and his chain; and yon tall fellow is the peak of Tetuan; the grey mists of evening are enveloping their sides.
Turning our eyes in the direction of Spain, however, we perceived a magnificent conflagration, seemingly enveloping the side and head of one of the lofty mountains northward of Tarifa.
There was a piano in black and gold, a little out of tune, and surmounted by a Benares brass jar, enveloping a scarlet geranium in a pot.
So many things, such wide and interesting fields, he did not so much think about as cover with a large enveloping shallowness.
But the months slipped by, and nearer and nearer crept the forces enveloping the Central Powers.
Dick followed him, and they sat down to their abundant tea, Charlotte pausing a moment to regard them with her all-enveloping lavishment of kindliness.
Yet really it was on the queerness of things as they are in the uniform jacket of propriety and the same things when circumstance thrusts the human creature out of his enveloping customs and sends him into battle.
She went over to the couch, took up the child, and began to tuck about him the folds of her enveloping blanket.
It was found that the enemy's position extended some sixteen miles, their left, the Diamond Hill, being so strong and so extended that movement of an enveloping kind was thought to be almost impossible.
A great combined envelopingmovement was planned out.
Still the wily one--slim by instinct, slimmer now by experience--contrived to become slippery as an eel whenever the fingers of the enveloping British hand began to curve in his direction.
For three months he had been enveloping her in the irresistible net of his love.
Duroy sought to divine, fancied he could trace, the outline of her plump, youthful figure through the soft material enveloping it.
