The life of every man is as the well-spring of a stream, whose small beginnings are indeed plain to all, but whose ulterior course and destination, as it winds through the expanses of infinite years, only the omniscient can discern.
In this case, as in all similar ones, broad expanses being covered to an enormous depth with ice, the surface of the latter must in some degree be modified by the ridges and valleys it conceals.
Below stretched theexpanses of roofs--the tiles of the Army Bakehouse, and the slates of the houses on the quay--like sheets of white cloth fringed with black.
Paris was gradually detaching itself from amidst the smoke, spreading out more broadly with its snowy expanses the frigid cloak which held it in death-like quiescence.
The arrow-head likes such swampy expanses as the converging surface roads form at Dead Man's Curve and the corners of Twenty third Street.
At the same time the dark expanses become more distinct, as if the melting of the polar snows had supplied them with a greater depth of water, or the advance of the season had darkened them with a heavier growth of vegetation.
Other dark expanses in the southern hemisphere are not difficult to be seen, although their outlines are more or less misty and indistinct.
Dull blue and purple expanses were transfigured into plains of gold, in which were lakes of sapphire and rivulets of ruby fire.
Vast expanses of smooth surface, polished by the constant winds, reflected the glow of the moon and gleamed like isles of silver in a motionless, deep, sapphire sea; but all was covered with the air of night.
New combinations had taken place in the interior of the great expanses not included in the Roman limits.
Marshes were formed over whole districts, and the cattle picked up an uncertain existence by browsing over great expanses of poor and unenclosed land.
If there are broad expanses a town like Urubamba or a great hacienda like Huadquiña is sure to be found.
And, finally, their all but unpopulated loftier expanses are a great vacant barrier between farms in the warm valleys of eastern Peru and the ports on the west coast.
Mine be the ungracious task (for reasons) of leaving unmention'd both sunnyexpanses and sky-reaching heights, to dwell on the bare spots and darknesses.
The beautiful greenexpanses were hunted over and over, but only a gardener's little boy in his best clothes, whistling faintly, was found.
Somewhere outside--clear outside--of the green expanses there was a gay, frivolous world where almost always they two stayed.
Maresfield, where the furnaces and forges of the old Sussex iron-masters clustered thick, retains vast expanses of the cinder and slag they created centuries ago.
There was the best of riding over the smooth grass in the open sunny expanses or among the quiet and shady glades.
The day slid rapidly into water that had lost its blueness for expanses of chalky shallow green, and the flat roofs of Key West and masoned arches became slowly visible across the sea, and a stir of departure filled the decks.
Heusch certainly painted the same effects of evening in wide expanses of country varied by rock formations and lofty thin-leaved arborescence as Both.
Often she was thus seen, in the afternoon; the scarlet made a bright moving patch on the vast expanses of snow.
But in the connecting doorways there were expanses of bare, highly-polished oak floor, and here he did stamp.
It was like spending an afternoon in Holland, so very Dutch are those long expansesof rich meadow-lands, those streams with their boats and tall water-plants.
I have been for three days at Cobham, where the woods covered with bluebells were like expanses of Italian sky brought down and laid on the earth.
This track is the No Man's Land, which lies like a broad green regular stripe between brown expanses along the hillside.
In the Y Ravine, which provided these great expanses of banks, he dug himself shelters of unusual strength and size.
Sunlight across that brine-laden air, across those pungent expanses of bog, is never crudely definite in its revelation; there is a hint of romance and glamour in the pearly shimmer of its brightness.
Single thatched houses were separated by expanses of rice-fields, green rectangles framed in sepia mud walls, picked out here and there by intensely white and intensely Japanesque egrets.
Palace; substituting therefor bare and blank expanses of lawn and wide gravel paths.
There is here little more than a clump or two of trees and shrubs, a wide gravel path, and two large vacant lawns, separated from the public walk by a wire fence, and between this and High Street mere expanses of grass.
Again and again she went to look out into the quiet moonlight night, across the glittering expanses of pure white glistening snow.
There were slope fields strewn with black lava rock where never a solitary blade of grass upthrust a thin spear; there were broken expanses across which the eye might travel wearily for what appeared endless miles.
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