In the deep shadow cast by the wall of an old and tumble-down barn near the cross-roads at Niddry, about three miles from Edinburgh, two Russian infantry officers were in earnest conversation.
Over the gigantic Capital of the World hung the darkShadow of Death.
I said that--I said that, although of course I had no shadow of authority over you, I did care for your happiness.
Of course you realize that you have noshadow of right to interfere.
In less than a month I became the shadow of the three principal persons in the play.
Now that I am but the shadow of the once brilliant Casanova, I love to chatter.
The oars had been muffled, and they glided along through the faint mist, in a ghostly way, well in the shadow of the cliffs, Gurr keeping up a whispered conversation with the lad by his side.
For, O my friends, how can there be the least shadow of wisdom when there is no harmony?
The legislator will instruct the people that the body is a mere shadow or image, and that the soul, which is our true being, is gone to give an account of herself before the Gods below.
There is no one who keeps a chariot among us, and any rivalry in such matters would be altogether out of place; there would be no sense nor any shadow of sense in instituting contests which are not after the manner of our country.
It's just because it's such a shadow that it's so intangible--so unconquerable.
On a sudden, that fallen Colossus is raised again, and its dark shadow has over-spread the brightening horizon.
The low sun, too, lends a weird and jagged shadow to gallop in before the crest of each advancing wave, and sometimes there is a second crest on the shoulders of the first, as if there were more than could be contained in a single curve.
Presently the motion ceased, and suddenly across the curtain came the shadowof a woman.
She raised in her arms the shadow of a baby, and kissed it; then both disappeared, and I walked on.
What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, so traced as to endure forever?
It could only be this, that shadow and substance are always ready to link themselves, in unexpected ways, against the diseased imagination; and that remorse can make the most transparent crystal into a mirror for its sin.
This crossed, they come to Minor Canon Corner: of which the greater part lies in shadow until the moon shall rise higher in the sky.
And covered her face, as if the lightest shadow of the idea of founding murder on such an idle vanity were a crime almost as great.
Then remove theshadow of the gallows from her, dear one!
She actually did look round, as if she dreaded to see him standing in the shadow behind her.
Through its latticed window, a fire shines out upon the fast-darkening scene, involving inshadow the pendent masses of ivy and creeper covering the building's front.
You then discover that although you can see the dim shadow of your game, your bullet will have to cut its way through at least twenty twigs before it can reach its goal.
For an instant I saw a large black shadow apparently walking along the trunk of a fallen pine.
There is no particular satisfaction in sitting for hours in a cramped position, with mosquitoes stinging you from all directions, while your eyes are straining through the darkness, transforming every shadow into the expected game.
He only stopped when the moon sank down behind the pine-trees, and the long deep shadow reached out and enveloped him.
As he emerged from the shadow and crossed the strip of moonlight, she perceived that he carried a pair of well-filled saddle-bags which he at once flung across the animal's back.
The two lived alone in a three-roomed cabin, almost within the shadow of the ruin.
While the outward pressure of a young and joyous existence had forced her footsteps into the light, her soul had stayed in the shadow of the ruin.
She and Felix have something pleasanter to talk about, out under the oaks, or back in the shadow of the oleanders.
So, instinctively, when Zoraide came out of the awful shadow she gazed questioningly about her and felt with her trembling hands upon either side of her.
Why, it seemed but yesterday that Desiree was little more than a baby herself; when Monsieur in riding through the gateway of Valmonde had found her lying asleep in the shadow of the big stone pillar.
Not only sorrows but sufferings, and with the anguish of maternity came the shadow of death.
It was no wonder, when she stood one day against the stone pillar in whose shadow she had lain asleep, eighteen years before, that Armand Aubigny riding by and seeing her there, had fallen in love with her.
Marthe sat weeping; a long, long way off her shadow seemed, yet in an instant that same shadow was bending over the bed.
The train crawled slowly under theshadow of the vine-covered cliffs, far to the west the rain-clouds were drifting away as if driven by the last rays of the setting sun, which they had hidden during the day.
We had lain for many hours in front of our trench with bayonets fixed, expecting an attack at any moment, finding alarm in every shadow and fear in the rustling of night breezes.
No one knows anything or has a shadow of fact to go on, but this is an insignificant detail which does not tie their tongues in the least.
Now, an angel, you know, becomes tiresome if one never gets out of the shadow of its wings.
Of Surrenden he is, on the contrary, as fond as he can be of anything except the lost Achnalorrie and a little cosey house that he has at Newmarket where the shadow of Lady Usk has never fallen.
The loch was like lead, with a ripple of mysterious changing lights in the darkness, as the boat shot round under the shadow of Kinloch Houran.
There was not a shadow upon the walls, not the sound of a step.
She felt herself to have become a sort of shadow of him, watching his movements with an anxiety which was without any parallel in her experience, yet at the same time able to interpose for him, when he could not act for himself, to save him.
A softness and melting of the heart indescribable came over her as she felt his light touch on her shoulders, and found herself enveloped as it were, in his shadow and the sentiment of his presence.
Beyond this moraine we found smoother ice and better light, for we had previously journeyed in the shadow of the mountains.
We had to cross in the shadow of a tower of ice, of a loose and threatening character, which quite overhung our track.
I finally reached the Faulberg by the glacier, and with great comfort consumed my bread and cheese and emptied my goblet in the shadow of its caves.
It was pitched in the shadow of a great rock, which seemed to offer a safe barrier against the cannonade from the heights.
I have seen similar effects upon the fresh neves of the Alps, the shadow being that of the human body looked at through an aperture in a handkerchief thrown over the face.
Before us were the buttresses of Snowdon, crowned by his conical peak; while below us were three llyns, black as ink, and contracting additional gloom from the shadow of the mountain.
She swung with her convex surface downwards, the common boundary between light and shadowbeing almost horizontal.
The crescent moon was in the sky, but for a long time we had to walk in the shadow of the mountains, and therefore required illumination.
The 'Twins' were most singularly illuminated; across the waist of each of them was drawn a black bar, produced by the shadow of a corner of the Breithorn, while their bases and crowns were exposed to the crimson light.
The whole shadow of a tree may thus be seen with stem and branches of the most delicate blue.
He did not reflect for the shadow of a second; he rushed forward to meet her and while he ascended toward her who was coming down, for the first time their gaze rested the one on the other and entered.
Neither one nor the other of these poor little creatures so much as considered the shadow of an idea of escaping from that destiny which must separate them.
As from the height of a hill, Pierre and Luce watched the shadow that moved upon the town.
Scarcely did a shadow cross the brow of the young lover.
He gazed again, and the shadow seemed to assume the form of a wide range of heathy bushes blown about by the air.
Bruno, in guarded tones, as he looked forth from shadow into moonlight, seeing scores upon scores of armed shapes flitting to and fro, all looking for the enemy, yet none able to precisely locate the trouble.
Not until that moment had uncle Phaeton dared indulge in even the shadow of a hope.
Shadow and shine is life, little Annie, flower and thorn.
She could not harm that pure, loving, trusting girl, and she sent her from her with a kiss and blessing, praying silently that she might never know a shadow of the pain which she was suffering.
The boat sped onward like a shadow amid a world of shadows, and the most prosaic soul would have been touched by the profound beauty of this watery world.
Its inviolability depended upon its remaining hidden in the shadow of the forests; and in this isolated valley none would guess the secret of its existence.
Here, in the shadow of the wall, they found Dolores stained as was her lover, and fantastically tricked out in savage finery.
