GRIEF, alleviated by recordingrecollections of the dead, i.
I was sitting conning over to myself the recollections of some faces I had seen before, when the head waiter appeared before me, with a request that I would be kind enough to give up my place at the table, which was No.
I did not dare to break in upon the current of recollections I saw were crowding upon her, and was silent.
My Uncle Toby's recollections had been an inducement for the journey, had I not the more pleasant one in my wish to see the Meuse, of whose scenery I had already heard so much.
I refer to the old superstitions and folklore which still linger on in the recollections of the "oldest inhabitant," and which ought to be at once treasured up, lest they should be altogether lost.
By your youth and cheerfulness you can brighten the one; by your gentleness and sympathy you can soothe the recollections of the other.
It is not, therefore, so surprising that tender recollections should have revived with unusual force in the veteran's memory.
When left alone, and still affected by these lively recollections of my poor uncle, I began to think of the letter which the notary had left with me.
You may imagine what a number of old recollections they discussed during dinner.
On hearing our footsteps, a young lady whom I at once recognised, from the recollections of my childhood, hurried to the door.
Doubtless he has met with panthers and wolves, each one of whom will to its dying day retain impressive recollections of the wee monster, from which they fled as a trifle too uncanny even for them.
Recollections of moments, months of excitement, of intense power, have returned!
Her recollections of the past grew tender in their youthful grief; her thoughts for the future became patient, solemn, and serene.
The few mournful words which his daughter had spoken had been sufficient to banish its fulness of joy from his heart, and to turn him from the happy contemplation of the present to the dark recollections of the past.
All the evaded dues of his nation, his family, and his calling; all the suppressed recollections of the martial occupation he had slighted, and the martial enmities he had disowned, now revived avengingly in his memory.
Fearful recollections associated with the place are beginning to stir his weary memory, to lift the darkness of oblivion from his idle thoughts.
As the wind lulled again, and the clashing of the metal ceased with it, he began to give these recollections expression in words, uttering them in slow, solemn accents to himself.
Surrounding objects failed to impress her attention; recollections and forebodings stagnated in her mind.
One after another these banished recollections returned to his memory as he listened to Alaric's rebuking words--reviving past infirmities, opening old wounds, inflicting new lacerations.
It will free the prisoned imagination of youth, and freshen the fading recollections on the memory of age!
Laudonniere, long and grateful recollections of a tried fidelity, to which he had not always done justice, extorting from him a groan; "Ah!
But my clearest recollections of those days centre about Scafell, and a certain rock upon the Pillar Mountain in Ennerdale.
I remembered what interest the Countess had seemed to take in my uneventful history, and how her questions had delighted me, flattering my vanity and lifting me to the topmasts of hope; and the irony of my recollections made me laugh aloud.
Recollections of Marshal Macdonald), but are brief and wanting in balance.
The fullness and inaccuracy of detail which are a feature of the book suggest that Jason's information was derived from the recollections of eye-witnesses orally communicated.
She had sewn it up in a carpet, and when it came out, Helen was struck with its likeness to a favourite chair of her uncle's; many painful recollections occurred to her, and tears came into her eyes.
General Clarendon, evidently moved by his ward's benevolent enthusiasm, paused and said that there were many recollections which made it rather painful to him to revisit Old Forest.
Many, many indeed, are the unpleasant recollections which, in the case of nearly all of us, will mingle with the joy with which we recall our college days.
Who in the south of the province, where these events took place, will cease to have grateful, and tender recollections of it?
They are haunted by the recollections of great spirits of past ages, who have sought for relaxation among them from the tumult of arms, or the toils of state, or have wooed the muse beneath their shade.
He had been her confessor and intimate friend, and in moments of agony and doubt produced by horriblerecollections he had revealed to her a secret which had been imparted to him in confession.
Mount Charles attributes the King's obstinacy to his recollections of his father and the Duke of York and to the influence of the Duke of Cumberland.
For it is certain that such recollections lived on a very long time in the nations of antiquity, and that, if the special tendency of the reporter be stripped off, they may yield objective matter of history.
But popular tradition has preserved far more recollections of graves of Patriarchs and Prophets than Scripture, and Mohammedan tradition considerably more than Jewish.
I trust that when I next return from you, I shall have--not to thank you less--but with less painful recollections of the trouble and anxiety I have occasioned you.
From a volume containing The Search after Proserpine, Recollectionsof Greece and other Poems by Aubrey de Vere, author of The Fall of Rora.
Recollections of Love must have been written on his return to Keswick from Malta in 1806: The Happy Husband at that time, or earlier.
In calling up the recollections of the great ages of English change, we can discover but slight evidence of their connexion with our own.
With these recollections vivid in his mind, he put aside the portrait, and looked for a study, which had been long abandoned, of a head of Psyche, an idea he had some time before thrown sketchily on the canvass.
I hope the reader will pardon me for having quitted my subject for a short time to fulfil the duty of gratitude; but are they not my recollectionswhich I am detailing?
Reflections andrecollections beyond number thus occupied my mind.
The journey was as agreeable as my melancholy recollections would permit.
I could not forget Jala-Jala, and my recollections never quitted that place where were deposited the remains of those whom of all the world I had most loved.
Fresh from his recollections of Bonneville, Guadalajara, and the dance in Annixter's barn, Presley was astonished at the beauty of these women and the elegance of their toilettes.
However, when the sorrow of his life reassailed him, and the thoughts and recollections of Angele brought the ache into his heart, and the tears to his eyes, the temptation to return to the garden invariably gripped him close.
Annixter, with recollections of the stolen buckskin in his mind, cried out sharply: "Who's there?
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