Bounding footsteps mingled with shouts reached her, approaching momently nearer, and ascending the stair-case.
Keyed now to the highest pitch of anticipation, with every faculty concentrated on his purpose, he worked his silent way onward, expecting momently to gain a view of the great ram.
But she waited in a sort of horror, expecting momently that a dreadful shadowy face would darken one or the other of them and glare in upon her.
We made friends with her, the more easily because she was much interested in the sketch momently growing under my companion's touch.
As the flowers from an orange tree in its time of blossoming, that burgeon forth, expand, fall and are momently replaced, such is the sequence of hourly and momently charities in a pure and gracious soul.
I looked on at a distance, wrapped up in the impenetrable folds of a pride, whose sleeves were momently plucked, as I watched, by the nervous fingers of jealousy and suspicion.
The question became momently more and more serious.
I felt my power over him momently increase; and I sometimes won where he did not wish it.
I spoke to her with as much freedom as fondness; and, momently expecting her to make the necessary revelation, I hung upon her slightest words, and hung upon them only to be disappointed.
On the very edge of that, on the lip of it, where the smoke rose, I also saw human shapes; and it seemed as if they stood on the brink of Tartarus and in momently imminent peril.
He returned me no answer, but hammered momently on his anvil.
My lantern lighted only a few yards around me, and the wind was so strong that it blew through every chink, and threatened momently to blow it out.
Thy smile and frown are not aloof From one another, Each to each is dearest brother; Hues of the silken sheeny woof Momently shot into each other.
The garden-glasses shone, and momently The twinkling laurel scatter'd silver lights.
In a moment her eye lightened, the expression of extreme horror which had momently darkened her countenance passed away, and her partial composure returned.
I feigned re-awakened love, proffered marriage, and a home across the Atlantic, as soon as certain trifling but troublesome affairs which momently harassed me were arranged.
The tinkling sound and the slow steps of the beasts of burden became momently louder, together with the harsh tones of a human voice.
Faint rosy flushes--momently brightening--merged finally into long tremulous beams of pure unearthly light, which shot up as if in an ecstasy of triumph over the conquered gloom.
Many of her officers and men jumped overboard, some clinging to the spars and pieces of wreck with which the sea was strewn, others swimming to escape from the destruction which they momently dreaded.
I feigned reawakened love, proffered marriage, and a home across the Atlantic, as soon as certain trifling but troublesome affairs which momently harassed me were arranged.
Momently the crowds, the tumult, the terror were growing.
A more immediate danger menaced him than the bodily appearance of the devil, which he had momently expected as he gazed at the flaming water.
Darkness came on apace; the tangled ways of the forest seemed momently more tortuous; wolves were not rare in the vicinity; rumors of a gang of horse-thieves were rife.
While the west grows momently more pale, the eastern heavens flush with afterglow, suffuse their spaces with pink and violet.
The Castle towered up rosy-red and shadowy sombre, enshrined, embosomed in those purple clouds; and momently ran lightning forks like rapiers through the growing mass.
The breakwaters were submerged, and the sea seemed gaining momently upon the solid land.
The slope of the sides of the vast funnel became momently less and less steep.
