Furthermore, abstention from the gratification of the sexual appetite was stipulated in certain cases, and this, no doubt, had a similar effect, especially as concerns magical evocations directed to the satisfaction of the sexual impulse.
And then he would paint the life around him instead of producing pastiches of old masters or sickly evocations of an unreal past.
I had got," he said, glancing at his last chapter, "to where the alchemic experiments and diabolicevocations have proved unavailing.
In the tones of his voice were evocations of fancies.
In her eyes were evocations of summer, and beneath them, on her cheeks and on the lobes of her ears, health had placed its token in pink.
Pliny says that the memory of these evocations is preserved among the priests.
We have in history instances of these devotings and maledictions, and evocations of the tutelary gods of cities by magic art.
We see there the custom of evocations of the dead distinctly pointed out, and solemnly practiced in a temple consecrated to these ceremonies; that demonstrates at least the belief and custom of the Greeks.
It is the direct parent of Pierre Loüys's Aphrodite, and laterevocations of the antique world.
What evocations of enchanting summer afternoons in Italy floating down the mirror-like stream under a blue sky, with the entrancing Duchess!
This Parable, with its notations and evocations of naked nerves and soul-states, is inscribed in all gratitude to the charming morganatic ladies, les belles impures, who make pleasanter this vale of tears for virile men.
It is a dream-architecture, this, with its evocations of Asiatic color and music.
There are perhaps better evocations of similar moods, but not of this precise mood.
One begins to suspect that it is more necessary to be subtle in evocations of despair than in those of hope, even if the hope is tremulous.
Verlaine is one of those great original poets the thought of whose wistful evocations coming suddenly upon us when we are troubled and vexed by the howl of life's wolves, becomes an incredible mandragora of healing music.
Yes, for all his panoramic evocations of sea-effects, Pierre Loti does not touch the old eternal mystery of the deep, with its answer of terror and strange yearning in the heart of man, in the way this other touches it.
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