At Huntsville we made a few prisoners, who said they were on their way from Price's army to Forsyth, Missouri.
It took but a short time to cut off enough "money" to pay for twenty canteens of the worst whisky I ever saw.
These men, and some others, had been sent away because they had no weapons with which to enter the fight.
The passage was still too dark for him to distinguish his face; but when the man reached the staircase a ray of light from outside fell upon him, and Jean Valjean saw his back perfectly.
But the spade and pick were a ray of light for Boulatruelle; he hurried to the bush at daybreak, and no longer found them there.
A solitary ray slanting through the window, flitted over the trembling verdure, and smiled on the gloomy wall, like a child on its grandame's knee.
He ever felt a tremor when he heard her voice: each accent, like a ray of the sun, penetrated his soul.
He has a good heart, but a heart always ready to be set on fire, either by a ray of the sun or by a spark of hell.
But, as a ray is inferior to the sun, it seemed to follow that the Christ must be inferior to the Father.
It has truly been said that "he was as inveterate an enemy to learning as ever lived;" that "no lucid ray ever beamed on his superstitious soul.
The sole ray of hope, the one chance of rescue from this sad plight, lay in "Rienzi.
The only ray of light in the dark night of our life is that which sympathy affords us.
The whole of the Paris period is "a gem of purest ray serene" in the diadem of Minna Wagner.
He could now wholly surrender himself to the supremest love, without fear of any flickeringray of light, any caressing breeze or scent, any buzzing of an insect's wing disturbing him amidst the delight of loving.
The yellow and white and crimson roses were now only a ray of their delight, a sign of their smiles to one another.
All the Chapter were there, the priests of all the parishes thronged thick amid a dazzling wealth of apparel, a flaring of gold beneath a broadray of sunlight falling from a window in the nave.
Whenever he touched the tentacula with his finger, all those of that ray or limb were gradually withdrawn, but those of the other rays were not in the least affected by it.
The body is nearly circular, and thicker than any other of theRay kind, and is sometimes so large as to weigh between seventy and eighty pounds.
A very simple thing," replied Simoun, his face lighting up with a ray of hope.
Yet she tried to seize upon a ray of hope, she smiled, thinking that Sister Bali was joking with her, a rather strong joke, to be sure, but she forgave her beforehand if she would acknowledge that it was such.
In that one steadfast ray he saw that whatever he did he must not do it for himself; but what his duty was he could not make out.
A darkness, which the obscurity of the night faintly typified, closed round him, pierced by one ray only, and from this he tried to turn his face.
I didn't know you had one," said the minister, brightening in the rayof hope.
Bright thing of a day Thou hast caught a ray From Morn's jewelled curtain fold On thy burning cheek, And the ruby streak His dyed it with charms untold-- And the gorgeous vest On thy queenly breast, Is dashed with her choicest gold.
Day fretted the east with its stormy gold, Creeping slow through a casement old, And stealing sadly with faint, cold ray Into the hut where the old man lay.
Of us and with us, veiled his dazzling ray Of awful Godhead, and at home in clay, A living, dying man?
By which alone we may approach to Him Before whose faintest ray the sun grows dim, And all the brightest glory of the skies Like twilight's feeble glimmer fades and dies.
Who turns from the glorious fountain of Day, To follow the wild ignis fatuus' ray Through quagmire and swamp, ever farther astray, With every step that he takes.
Seeing a ray of light issuing from the door of the children's room, he went in.
The candle, placed on the ground, cast a ray of light on the first steps of the stone staircase, while the lower part was lost in total obscurity.
The action of the photophone is based on the peculiar fact observed in 1873 by Mr J E Mayhew, that the electrical resistance of crystalline selenium diminishes when a ray of light falls upon it.
This can be seen by connecting the plates through a galvanometer, and allowing a ray of light to fall upon them.
A ray of light from a lamp L (figure 52) falls on the mirror, and is reflected back to a scale S, on which it makes a bright spot.
Another week passed; the shadow of the gallows crept over the days; on, on, remorselessly drawing nearer, as the last ray of hope sank below the horizon.
A breath of coolness and purity seemed to waft into the feverish ball-room; a ray of fresh morning sunlight.
The lamp had come to a stand-still, was deposited on the ground, and by its dim ray the adjutant could be seen bending over a dark object that was half sitting, half reclining at the platform of the shed.
Mrs. Ray told me you played Rubinstein so well,--that melody in F, for one.
The earliest ray of the golden day On that hallow'd spot is cast; And the evening sun, as he leaves the world, Looks kindly on that spot last.
O, what were man, did not her hallowed ray Disperse, the clouds that thicken on his way!
Rose, as a ray of celestial joy illumined for an instant the livid faces of the orphans.
At this moment a farewell rayof the setting sun, piercing the dark mass of clouds, threw a refection upon the Calvary, vivid as a conflagration's glare.
