There they found the princess sitting, as the star-gazer had said, on the rock; and the dragon was lying asleep, with his head upon her lap.
The star-gazer took his glass, looked up, and said, 'Five.
All the authorities agree that the crystal gazer should sit with the light behind his back, and never in front of him.
Some authorities advise that the crystal gazer should make funnels of his hands, using them as he would a pair of opera-glasses.
Pictures giving information as to something past, present, or future, which the gazer has no other chance of knowing.
But for the fanaticism of the last Stewart, the pillared front of the Latin Jupiter might still form the proudest of crowns for the height on which the gazer from the walls of Rome fixes his eye more commonly than on any other.
Then the gazer saw "The top of heaven full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets.
Sight of truth, with devout and loving submission to it, is an achievement whose nobleness outweighs its sorrow, even if the gazer foresee his own destruction.
Towards the east it looks perpendicularly into the dyffrin or vale, nearly a mile below, from which to the gazer it is at all times an object of admiration, of wonder and almost of fear.
The view of the hill of Dinas Bran, from the southern side of Llangollen, would be much more complete were it not for a bulky excrescence, towards its base, which prevents the gazer from obtaining a complete view.
On the street this fair enchantress is but a shroud-like mass of drapery, through which the curious gazer can sometimes discern the outline of a delicately oval face and the flash of a black liquid eye.
The crystal-gazer known to the author once managed to see the person (unknown to her) who was in the mind of the other party in the experiment.
The author at once wrote asking his friend the crystal-gazer if she had seen this work of art, which might have unconsciously suggested the picture.
A Christian Father asserts that, in some cases, a basin with a glass bottom was used, through which the gazer saw persons concealed in a room below, and took them for real visions.
But while, as a rule, only one gazer sees the visions, the sounds (usually but not invariably) are heard by all present.
Towards the east it looks perpendicularly into the dyffrin or vale, nearly a mile below, from which to the gazer it is at all times an object of admiration, of wonder, and almost of fear.
It is "the tall dark man" which the amateur crystal-gazer really wants.
I imagine that if a young man went to a crystal-gazer and was told that he would work desperately hard for the next twenty years, and would by that time have earned (and saved) a fortune, he would be very disappointed.
But his was the old story of the star-gazer walking into the well, who might have studied the stars in the well, but could not be warned of the well by the stars.
Accurately to distinguish the features was impossible,--tantalizingly so; for the gazer was convinced that she was both young and beautiful.
But this country, however it may delight the gazer or amuse the naturalist, is of no great advantage to its owners.
Often enough the gazerknows the bitterness of divine discontent, and finds the golden glory but a bar, shutting out God.
At that very moment there rose up from far away to the ears of the stricken gazer the sound of a cock-crow.
The gazerwilted back in his seat; turning white, he held his hands to his eyes, his whole frame trembling.
The principal point insisted upon by nearly all the teachers, is that of placing the back of the gazerto the light, instead of having him face the light.
What a sensation must that have occasioned as gazer after gazer caught sight of the fresh colours glowing on what was a blank wall the day before!
Yet an ordinary gazer would have found little or nothing attractive in the appearance of Rose Heathcote, for she was but a homely, innocent-looking girl, such as we meet with every day of our lives.
Faith gave dignity to the tenets of the star-gazer and fire-worshiper.
After this there arose a war at Gazer against the Philistines: in which Sabachai the Husathite slew Saphai of the race of Raphaim, and humbled them.
And their possessions and habitations were Bethel with her daughters, and eastward Noran, and westward Gazer and her daughters, Sichem also with her daughters, as far as Asa with her daughters.
And they gave the cities of refuge Sichem with its suburbs in mount Ephraim, and Gazer with its suburbs, 6:68.
I will be a safely married man and you--you will be a window-gazer no longer.
Far away, on peaks half hidden, snow still lay--a whiteness so ethereal that the gazer caught his breath.
Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.
