Then wing they for the western strands Of boweréd vales and lulling dells, Where silence holds the winds at bay, And myrtles stir the sylvan air.
The distant lawns were lulling to sleep the breezes that kissed them.
She led him back to bed, soothing him like a child, lulling him with a fib.
But I may honour and obey my parent without loving her more than my Saviour," argued she with herself, in hopes of lulling her conscience by this reflection.
That thy groans, like thunder prest, Begin to roll, and almost drown The sweet notes whose lulling spell Gods and the race of mortals love so well, When through thy caves thou hearest music swell?
But the Cardinal had reverted to that instinctive, lulling tramp by which he apparently hoped to quiet his impatience and arrive the sooner at the explanation for which he was groping through a tumultuous maze of ideas.
The lulling hymns were like the very vertigo that bore them away.
Then everything slowly vanished from Pierre's eyes as a fresh wave of memory brought the past back from afar; and nothing of the present remained save the lulling hymn, the indistinct voices of dreamland, emerging from the invisible.
Yes, in the trenches it was the same; they had settled down once more into the lulling secure feeling of the protection of a dirt wall, six feet high, which paradoxically ends by killing them.
We had let ourselves feel comfortable in the lulling security of the trenches, which paradoxically kills men.
Rose had just succeeded in lulling the restless baby to sleep upon her bosom.
Her gentle lulling and gentler touch, for babies know well how to appreciate an experienced and skillful hand, soon soothed the little sufferer.
And then the tranquillity within her seemed to increase, her future serenity appeared to be assured, thus endearing the church to her andlulling her into a blissful condition of patient endurance.
The old woman's chatter, in fact, ended by lulling her into a pleasant drowsiness, and when she went off she promised to give her a bonnet and gown, as soon as she should be able to get about again.
Mrs. Garnett was with him now, and had had a "great deal of trouble in lulling him off to sleep, the pretty dear.
Baby woke just as I was putting him in his cot, and I had some little trouble in lulling him to sleep again.
The willow leaves with a soft cheek upon the lulling tide, Forgot the lifting winds"--What does this mean?
She stood with her hands gripped together, fighting the old intolerable misgiving that even the lulling magic all around her had never succeeded in stilling.
I cannot imagine ever feeling active in this lulling atmosphere.
To make it more agreeable, the soft wind fanned our faces, and the sea seemed to be whispering in a curious lulling way that was delightful.
At the best his position was a perilous one, and he was very conscious of the necessity of not lulling himself into a false security because of that day's immunity.
Deciding for the present not to harrow Violet with news of the altered situation, she spent a grudged five minutes in lulling suspicion by sauntering about the upper deck.
The gallery was thronged with spectators, clustering like bees about the large windows, and the notes of the band came floating out over the lawn, bringing to the groups there the lulling impression that life is all a summer holiday.
The rapid current of the Tiber washed the foundation walls of one side of the building, within which the clear, lulling bubble of the water was audible with singular distinctness.
While, mingling with both in discordant combination, the strange music of the temple still poured on its lulling sound--the rippling of the running waters and the airy chiming of the bells!
Thick as was the darkness in which the lulling and involuntary memories of the past had enveloped the perceptions of Ulpius, the father's piercing cry of anguish seemed to have penetrated it with a sudden ray of light.
But the soft, lulling notes of the bird were powerless over the girl's ear, as the light sunbeam over her face--still she never woke.
