In much better mood the good Bishop recognized empire as moving gently in the pathway of light.
Not that it met my ideal of that sacred front, but because it took me in a mood that clothed it with life and reality.
In tender mood I pictured forth the spot Wherein I should be laid to take my rest.
The mood of a nation after a war is a practically unfailing test of victory or defeat; and the mood of America after 1814 was happy, confident, creative--the mood of a boy who has proved his manhood.
He was readily quarrelsome, utterly without judgment and susceptible to that mood of panic in which mediocre persons are readily induced to act the "strong man.
But England was not in the mood for more fighting.
And that evening both brother and sister called on Abby Miles, more to escape the home mood than to enjoy her society.
I shall not need to recall that song to remind me of you," he said in a low voice as he spread it on the music rack in front of her, "but I shall always feel its mood when I think of you.
She seemed in unusually good spirits, and in a far brighter mood than usual, and ready to jest and joke with unaffected gayety.
By no means," he said, "only I may perhaps have a little of the same mood at times that Ben Bolt had when he heard of the fate of his sweet Alice.
Yet it was enough for him to cling to; it buoyed his mood to higher courage.
His mood was so tense in its devotion to the puzzle presented by the player, Wantage, that the news brought him by Vanlief did not suffice to rouse him.
In that mood he turned fiercely upon some of the drawings on his walls.
It was in this mood that he saw, on the other side of the avenue, a figure that sent a flush to his skin.
Indeed I have," said Evelyn, coming out of her reflective mood into a girlish enthusiasm.
Mrs. Mavick was not in the mood to help him with any general conversation, and presently said, looking at her watch: "You wrote me that you wanted to consult me.
And, in the mood of the moment, she was tired of the Newport palace.
When that was over, he was in no mood to go anywhere but to his rooms.
I was not, however, in a mood to suffer my flowers of oratory to blush unseen.
It was in a melancholy and thoughtful mood that I rode away from the parsonage.
His mood veered, and it was he that was gay and she glum; for he suddenly seized her and subjected her to one of those tumultuous ordeals so disastrous to toilette and to dignity and to her sense of personal rights.
But his mood of delight in her charms as a woman had completely eclipsed his deference for her charms as a lady.
The fact was, this melting and inviting mood had far more of nature and sincerity in it than there had been in her icy aloofness.
She was in no mood for the barren blossom of non-marrying men's compliments.
Margaret, being in perfect physical condition, was deeply depressed for only a short time after the immediate cause of her mood ceased to be active.
Her strangest mood of the tender cruelty was when the passion to anatomize him beset her.
The title this girl scornfully supplied was balm to the vanity she had stung, and his burnt skin was too eager for a covering of any sort to examine the mood of the giver.
I'm in themood to-day of Horace hymning one of his fair Greeks.
Clotilde kindled to the hint of his festival mood of Solomon at the banquet.
Well at ease now, and more than ever in the mood for joyous company, Gonzague turned to re-enter the supper-room, but the hunchback clawed at him and brought him to a halt.
What we have seen and heard leaves us in little mood for merrymaking.
Hold on to that idea and you grasp me in my entirety, both in my mood when we met on the beach and in my present frame of mind.
Tropical landscapes and mood pictures gave way to stanzas taken from familiar and unfamiliar ballads and romances of every historical and non-historical type of content.
My mood had changed; I hastily put up my hair, and turned away from the glass.
Perhaps in the sound of a human voice of happy mood amid the awful din she recognized a resemblance to the voice of him whose blood moistened her shoulders and was even yet dripping from saddle and housings.
Philip, deeply affected, softly closed the lid: for they both were in too melancholy a mood to continue to examine the contents of the chest; nor was it till several days had passed that they assumed firmness enough to open it again.
When Oakley read the obnoxious editorial his blood grew hot and his mood belligerent.
He must admit, however, that he found Lord John in a mood willing to let himself be convinced.
But thismood was dissipated by the angry temper in all sections which arose out of the imprisonments, the hunger-strikes, the penalties imposed, and the successive concessions to violent resistance.
But at the moment recruiting was increasing weekly and the War Office were in no mood to make further concessions than those by which the improvement had been brought about.
Indeed, the family lawyer had intimated in a genial mood that he might possibly feel it his painful duty to place them in the dock, on a charge of conspiracy to defraud—a situation for which neither of them had any fancy.
If the papal court was roused into so menacing a mood by the mere intimation of the secret marriage, it was easy to foresee what would ensue when the news arrived of the proceedings at Dunstable.
As ample time remained, Morton continued his walk along the road, his mood in harmony with the brightness of the morning.
One day he paced his cell in a mood of more than usual depression.
This sudden apparition, breaking in upon the brightening mood of the moment, incensed Morton almost to fury; and his anger, absurdly enough, was a little tinged with a feeling not wholly unlike jealousy.
Proscribed and hunted, starved into fierceness, his best friend murdered at his side, his mood was, to say the least, none of the most benign.
Half an hour later he was riding homeward in a moodquite novel to his experience.
Wentworth followed him with his eye as he disappeared; then sank into the musing moodwhich had grown habitual to him.
Happiness blinded him, and he was in no mood to doubt of human nature.
One would think," she observed, "that after the sufferings that you have passed, you would have come home in a different mood of mind.
And leaving the hotel, he walked up the crowded sidewalk of Broadway, in a mood any thing but tranquil.
Still, though every day more helplessly spell-bound, his mood was not despondent.
Morton walked the street, on the next day, in a mood less grave than had lately been his wont, but in one of any thing but self-approval.
The book that he took up did not interest him; he was in no mood for the quiet meditation that it usually suggested to him, and he put it down and strolled out, directing his steps farther up the height, and away from the suburban stir.
When he was in this mood Carmen felt that she was like a daisy in the path of a cyclone.
Jack tripped up this ungallant speech by remarking that if Mavick was in this mood he did not know why he came ashore.
But this mood was no more favorable than the other for beginning a new life, nor did there seem to be, as he went along, any need of it.
The people were in no mood to listen to legal quibbles.
But the Roman public would not be hellenised in this particular, and showed their moodwhen a musical exhibition was attempted at the triumph of Lucius Anicius Gallus in 167.
The mood of the king responded to Jugurtha's words, and without an instant's delay they took the field together.
I only know, that if the reader will turn back to some parts of my history, he will find me very often in a similar mood on similar occasions.
I loved the dear angel, but never had wronged her; and I went to sea in a mood which I sometimes thought might end in an act of desperation; but salt water is an admirable specific against love, at least against such love as that was.
Edith was in themood to think that any pleasure enjoyed away from her was a tacit affront, or at best a proof of indifference.
I am in the mood in which women of another religion take the veil.
She came down ready equipped, in a brisker mood than usual.
Not a mood of his but what found a ready sympathiser in Margaret; not a wish of his that she did not strive to forecast, and to fulfil.
He was in a moodto take a surly pleasure in giving answers that were like riddles.
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