She had sat there under her stiff old father's portrait, with which her own, on the other side of the chimney, mildly balanced; but these presences acted from that time but with cautious reserves.
In Maeterlinck's The Blind, the baby in arms is aware of the unearthly presences better than the men and women.
Temple Thurston, is a symbolic fairy novel, the fairies being figures of the man's besetting sins, bodiless presences blown on the winds of feeling, as the woman he loves is lured by the fairy of her own beauty.
The hint of spectral sounds or presences quickens the imagination as no other suggestion can do, and no human shapes of fear can awe the soul as those from beyond the grave.
Supernatural presences that could not be imaged on the boards may be represented in the novel or story, as Blackwood's Elementals or Psychic Invasions.
To lonely hearths the presences that gladdened them before.
V In the citrine shadows there What tall presencesand fair, Godlike, stood!
He had come into a marsh of miasmic mist lit up by pale fires that were not of heaven and where dreadful presences thronged the purple gloom.
The gloom is alive with mysterious and impalpable menace; the encompassing presences which everything suggests and nothing betrays, grow more and more oppressively real, until the decisive moment when Roland's blast suddenly lets them loose.
Then as she gained the top of this rocky bastion, sounds more indicative of human presences were in the air, the report of a gun came from not far off, and immediately afterwards a string of shots.
If all this were true--and he repeated to himself that he knew it was true--these presences were about him now, so why was it that he was no longer frightened?
It would, so to speak, have been a suitably dramatic setting for his thoughts if he had been thinking in character, vaguely suggestive of presences and hints and peeps into the unknown.
These presences were natural and normal; even as a Catholic he believed in them.
The Will, the Soul, which for the first time had journeyed outside our common home, had to take upon themselves bodily presences likewise.
The Will, the Soul, which for the first time had gone along outside of our common home, had to take upon themselves bodily presences likewise.
He is troubled because there are strange presences in the woods, presences that he dreads.
It seemed as though something solemn and elevating had entered and driven away the frivolous, chattering presences which had filled the room.
Sometimes, too, he had felt as though presences were near him, but who they were or what they meant he could not tell.
Such presences are grouped, for the modern student, under the general title "spirits.
In life as in lives, the presences move dark and dread or shining and lovely; and in the lives of the great as in life itself the shining and lovely would seem to be the more constant visitants.
For, by the same token, it would seem there must be other presences not morbid; other haunting influences, not dreadful, but lovely.
She did not think of the people who had been her own in the different days so far past, nor of her living friends, nor of the young presences whose laughter Lucy had insisted upon hearing.
We would wish rather for our thoughts a directness such as belongs to the messengers of the gods, swift, beautiful, flashing presences bent on purposes well understood.
Divine presences revealed themselves in brook and cornfield, on mountain-tops and in the faces of animals.
When Louie took this down one day and put it out of sight, she told herself that she did so on Jimmy's account; but perhaps those absences that she had to convert into presences as best she could had something to do with it too.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "presences" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
