Drag what lurks Behind the operation--that which works Latently everywhere by outward proof-- Drag that mind forth to face mine?
There is no worse poetry on earth than that which lurks between those covers, or in the pages of young ladies' albums.
And loss of grandeur to the sage there is none; for he is as profoundly sensitive to the greatness of nature as to the greatness that lurks within man.
Is it impossible to find--it matters not where, nor how great be the silence--the same undlssolvable matter that lurks in the cup of the noblest external existence?
What an imp of mischief lurks in that little woman.
Now I know where in thy bonnet lurks the bee, I will ware his sting; I will but pluck the secular goose.
These compositions spoke of Hymen and Cupid, and told how Hymen at first appears alone, while Cupid lurks concealed, until, at the door of the bridal chamber, the elder brother gives place to the younger.
It behooves you, men and women, it behooves you to be heeding, For there lurks a note of menace underneath their plaintive pleading.
They propose instead--and therein lurks horror--that the Federal electors be asked to abandon Adams for Aaron.
And in that presentation lurks a peril; for she is eighteen and he is twenty.
It lurks within the wry bassoon The blind man plays, the porch beneath.
It comes, the uninvited guest, And lurks beneath the banquet chair, Unseen from the pale bride to wrest Her little silken garter fair.
The rise of man from the lower orders taxes our powers of belief and our faith in the divinity that lurks underfoot far more than did the special creation myth.
Even in the daytime, A Man never deserts me: he haunts the solitary country lanes, lush and lovely with spring; he pops out upon me from mountain woods; on the stretches of beach he lurks just around the point.
Ambition here displays no gilded toy, That tempts on desperate wing the soul to rise; Nor Pleasure's paths to wilds of woe decoy, Nor Anguish lurks in Grandeur's proud disguise.
Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower; Each season has its own disease, Its peril every hour.
It also runs through all Greek history from the Persian War to the conquests of Alexander, and lurks still in the present struggle between Greek and Turk.
Brother, I like not this; For many men that stumble at the threshold Are well foretold that danger lurks within.
Here lurks no treason, here no envy swells, Here grow no damned drugs, here are no storms, No noise, but silence and eternal sleep.
But say, and of my son some comfort yield, If he goes on in first fights of the field, Or lurks for safety in the obscure rear?
I would to heav’n thou knew’st, and could but speak, To tell me where he lurks now!
The landscape was ominous; the sight of it was strangely discomfiting; perhaps because it impugned the sense of the infinite that lurks within us.
Our souls are still the crafty synagogues who betrayed Him, and the vile Caiaphas that lurks within us rises up at the very moment when we fain would be humble and love Him while we pray!
He dreaded the suggestion of the machine that lurks in the polished surface and the perfect curve.
The subject is derived from the ancient literature, half myth, half history, in which he had long been steeped, but in its treatment lurks a suggestion of the great moral excitement of the Socialist campaign.
There is none of that veiled pruriency which lurks underneath the more conventionally expressed, but really vicious sentiments that are to be found in too many novels of our own day.
In our time, and in the midst of our advanced refinement there lurks a sickly sentimentality, a false modesty, and an unhealthy delicacy which are in a degree inimical to morality.
Surely in a way where such a danger lurks we need a commandment which will shine as a lamp, a law which will be itself a light (ver.
Every time she looked at her husband, there seemed a demon rising up within her--that demon which lurks strangely enough in the heart's closest and tenderest depths.
A dusky rose sometimes lurks there with such an effect of vitality as you will hardly get from the shallower pink of the flaxened haired.
It had so long taken its place in that past whereinlurks all the antiquity of the world.
Wherein lurks anything which indicates that the witnesses in this case stated anything that was not substantially true?
For lurks this essence far and deep and under, Nor in our body is aught more shut from view, And 'tis the very soul of all the soul.
In sooth, where no one part of soul remained Lurking among the members, even as fire Lurks buried under many ashes, whence Could sense amain rekindled be in members, As flame can rise anew from unseen fire?
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