His head was dizzy, a curiouslightness took possession of his limbs, and he felt that if he should undertake to cross the lodge, he would stagger and fall like a drunken man.
He had barely done so, when the young Shawanoe was after him, going over with a lightness and grace that showed no special effort.
And with an unusual lightness of spirit, which he ascribed purely to his satisfaction that he need punish Sylvia no longer, he started off upon his long journey.
Here, surely the fear would die out of her soul, the eyes would lose their shadows, the feet regain the lightness of their step.
For two days, however, Sylvia persevered, and on the third her lightness of spirit unaccountably deserted her.
But in the morning she was only aware of a great lightness of spirit.
Under the hands of Palladio, the Grecian orders seemed to borrow the lightness and airiness of the Gothic.
It was evident from the beginning that Crab Wilson meant to throw no chance away, and that he would trust to his lightness of foot and quickness of hand until he should see something of the tactics of this rough-looking antagonist.
Eye-witnesses agree in their superior lightness of complexion over the Chinooks.
They are 'much stronger than their lightness would lead one to suppose.
It was the first time that she had crossed the Channel, and the lightness of the air, the freshness of the colouring, and the general picturesqueness of things, delighted her from the moment of landing.
And thus even our old memories must be treated with the same lightness and unaffectedness.
But I do not see that earnestness is in the least incompatible with lightness of touch and even with humour, though I have sometimes been accused of displaying none.
I ought to have known it, Greeba, that your old lightness would lead you to some false dealing yet, and I have none but myself to blame.
But now, the lightness of spirit that had been with him but a few moments before was gone, and a restlessness, bordering on depression, took its place.
He stretched out his arms again across the rail; and then turning, and hurrying because there was a lightness in his steps that would not let them lag, he sought the deck companionway close at hand, and ran up to the deck above.
Yes, yes, the gaiety, the lightness of spirit was only make-believe; the tears were more genuine than the smile that came tremulously to her lips.
But in lightness and security in the saddle the General excels them all.
Even Abel Mallory became agreeable; and Hollins, sitting beside Mrs. Shelldrake on the back seat of the foremost carriage, shouted to us, in boyish lightness of heart.
Her Ladyship's views were Tory to the backbone, but she had a speculative cynical lightnesswhich leavened any retrogressive tendencies.
The quickness and lightness with which subtle and clever sallies were answered--the perfect ease of everyone!
The wind was light, and the brig drifted quietly down the river and, when evening came on, anchored as, on account of the sandbanks and the lightness of the wind, Fairclough had thought it unadvisable to continue his voyage at night.
Tis the lightness of your eyes, which are of a colour rarely seen; but somehow or other, it appears to me that it was not at Jooneer, but at Poona, that I noticed your face.
Soyera had told him of this herb, when he related to her how Balloba had detected him by thelightness of his eyes.
He was practically carrying them both, but the lightness of the one almost made up for the burden of the other.
She seemed disappointed in the lightness with which apparently he took her search.
These men always appeared to Captain Clapperton to be the best troops in this country and that of Soudan, on account of their lightness and activity.
Behind thelightness of his words she saw the truth--the craving of famine.
And then there swooped down from out of the cover of the black spruce a gray cloudlike thing that came with the silence and lightness of a huge snowflake, hovered for an instant over the porcupine, and disappeared into the darkness beyond.
At the summit of the highest peak, "moved deeply at first by that vast spectacle, and affected by the unusual lightness of the air, I stood as if overwhelmed.
There was an elegant lightness of drapery in Mrs. Birch's dress, but poor Lady Aspen had certainly a very trifling way with her in shaking continually her leaves, which sounded as if she was tittering at everything around.
Harrison says that the women do far exceed the lightness of the men; "such staring attire as in time past was supposed meet for light housewives only is now become an habit for chaste and sober matrons.
Master," asked Julian, "why is not that divine lightness mine, that gaiety which used to make so splendid the men of Hellas?
This lightness sustained him and increased his strength tenfold.
Thanks to extreme temperance, he felt continually full of nervous excitement, and at the same time a lightness of body, as if he had wings.
This singular lightness or physical adroitness he has caught also in his representation of elephants, the Elephant of Senegal Running, showing to an especial degree the agility of the animal despite its enormous bulk and ponderosity.
But in this instance he has rendered with great skill the curvetting spring of the bull into the air and the lightness of the motion in contrast with the weight of the body.
By reason of the great lightness of our airplane one good 400 horse-power motor is all we need for pulling purposes.
The soil should contain an ample supply of humus, well worked into the ground, to secure the lightness and moisture-retaining property of forest soils.
In the case of clay the thorough incorporation of a large amount of decayed vegetable matter tends to givelightness to the otherwise heavy soil, facilitating aeration and drainage.
This substance is employed to fabricate not only bottle corks, but small architectural and geognostic models, which are very convenient from their lightness and solidity.
The roofs of these sheds present in general circular profiles, and being made of cast or bar iron, they display a remarkable lightness of construction.
The quantity of indigo must be proportional, of course, to the depth or lightness of the tints required.
Such wire is much used for making bread-baskets, toast-racks, snuffers, and articles combining elegance with lightness and economy.
A very considerable improvement in the lightness and elasticity of silk hats has been the result of this invention.
