But this was a fleeting fancy only, and was rendered utterly ridiculous by recurrence to her transporting figure, the golden warmth of her hair and complexion, and above all to the fragility of her lineaments, which stamped her mortal.
But you found a suggestion rather than a character of fragility in the beauty of her face that caused the very delight you took in the gold and lilies and violets of her loveliness to grow pensive.
She held each note in a silvery vibration that had the fragility of old age.
It had, however, the effect of intensifying his desire, his passion for her fragility of silk and flesh.
She had a look of at once extreme fragility and fading beauty.
The white fragility of her neck and shoulders, in the generous display of which he recognized the gown's quondam possessor, gave him a little pang of fear.
They impress none with any fresh conviction of the fragility of our nature, because none had any particular interest in their lives, or was united to them by a reciprocation of benefits and endearments.
Her constitution was naturally frail, a fragility indicated by the extreme delicacy and mutability of her complexion, and the profusion of her pale golden hair.
A poetical friend had given her the name of Eglantine, and well did her beauty, sweetness, delicacy, and fragility justify the name.
Both classes of facts are reconciled by the assumption, or rather the experimental verity, that the fragility of ice and its power of regelation render it possible for it to change its form without prejudice to its continuity.
But as I ascended, the width and depth of the fissures increased, and the fragility of the snow-bridges became more conspicuous.
There was some difficulty in detaching the more delicate ones, their fragility was so great.
I have only wished to show the fragility of human affairs, and the want of foresight in those who direct societies.
The bizarre contrast between her dark eyelashes and her fair hair seemed to find some kind of echo in the combination of health and fragility that she expressed in her movements.
She produced, I thought, an impressive effect of fragility and power in her contrast with that massive table.
I said the inhabitants of the adjacent houses hurled their furniture from the windows with more precipitation than attention to the fragility of the articles.
She seemed of such a delicate, chaste fragility that she could be shattered by a single harsh touch.
The only obstacle that prevented me from using this process at once on a large scale was the fragility of the paper, which tore into pieces under the slightest carelessness in handling.
The fragility of the Solenhofen stone requires the use of thick slabs for printing.
Because Peter was strong and burly the contrast of her appealing fragility attracted him all the more.
The banker, to avoid overloading the table with gold and silver, had completed the array of each service with porcelain of exquisite fragility in the style of Dresden china, which had cost more than the plate.
Most importance attaches to the fragility of the bones met with in general paralysis of the insane, locomotor ataxia, and other chronic diseases of the brain and spinal cord.
These terms are used to describe a condition in which an undue fragility of the bones dates from intra-uterine life.
My comfort is, that he appeared to live like a man that had always before his eyes the fragility of our present existence, and was therefore, I hope, not unprepared to meet his judge.
There was an aspect of fragility and virtue about her which stirred in the bold and shameless male the almost atrophied instincts of chivalry and protection.
But this aspect of fragility was without any suggestion of feebleness.
When one considers also thefragility of the human body, one looks in wonder at the wisdom and the goodness of the Author of Nature, who has made the body so enduring and its condition so tolerable.
Now this very fragility is a consequence of the nature of things, unless we are to will that this kind of creature, reasoning and clothed in flesh and bones, be not in the world.
And men speak of the future still with these awful monuments of fragility before their eyes!
The old stands a mournful monument of the fragility of human things: yours as a sanctuary of eternal right.
And the spirit of the immovable Past rose before my eyes, unfolding the misty picture-rolls of vanished greatness, and of the fragility of human things.
So the powerful cities of the ancient greatness of a giant age; their very memory but a sad monument of the fragility of human things.
The fragility of her was most wonderful to him, accustomed to the honest motherly brawn of the girls of his own race.
She passed from sight again, and for the time he scarcely regretted her, for she left glamour behind her and a vision of womanhood equipped, debonnaire, heart-breaking in its fragility and its daring.
Still with violence (slightly modulated to spare the comparative fragilityof the objects she was handling) she dashed them one by one upon the table where Essy, with elbows planted, propped her head upon her hands and wept.
Her smallness, her fineness and fragilityenchanted him.
