Slowly theshadows crept To the bases of the crags, and I slept.
Through Porton village, under the bridge, The clear bourne floweth with grasses trailing, Wherein are shadows of light cloud sailing, And elms that shelter under the ridge.
The brilliant moonlight revealed everything, and cast sharp, black shadows of wheel, and bar, and spring, on the pavement.
The strange anecdotes recounted of the room in which I stood by Monsieur Carmaignac returned vaguely upon my mind, drowning in sudden shadows the gaiety of the more frivolous stories with which he had followed them.
At dawn His Majesty's trawlers Golden Feather and Peggy Nutten foamed up, but the shadows had disappeared.
The sharp blue shadowson their western slopes emphasized the effect.
When the cat's away, the mice may play; the shadowsof night dance when the moon is absent.
From the mountain come forth the mice of night, the shadows of night, to which the cat-moon and the cat-twilight give chase; the thieving propensities of the mice display themselves in the night.
Hence it is believed in Germany that when storks fly round, or over a group of persons, some one of them is about to die; the clouds and the shadows that collect together presage the disappearance or death of the sun.
At the corner of the Rue de la Loi they heard singing and shouting and saw shadows flitting round a brazier of live coals.
But, amid the shadows of this momentary death, she felt herself overborne by a flood at once of horror and voluptuous ecstasy.
Simultaneously with his jump he detected a movement in theshadows that banked the wall at his elbow and saw the flaming spurt of a revolver-shot.
For her part, she saw nothing except her brother vanishing slowly into the shadows as though stricken at her glance, the curtains closing before his livid face--and then pandemonium broke loose at her feet.
He slunk back into the shadows and remained hidden for a considerable time after the lawyer left, for the dancers were returning from the hotel and passed close by.
Noiselessly they followed me wherever I went, heads bent, but their eyes watching me from beneath shaggy brows, their hands concealed within their wide hanging sleeves; it was as though dark shadows were dogging my every step.
The sinking sun behind them gives them the appearance of shadows coming from very far out of the desert where the paths have neither beginning nor end.
The warriors do likewise, and her shaft speeds upon its mission of death, shot down amidst the shadows of the gorge.
She claps her hands, and cries aloud to others still in the shadows of the mountain.
And thus speaking, they joined their tawny followers who awaited them in the neighboring thicket, within the shadows of which they soon disappeared from sight.
She approached it not, though watching it from sunset till the gray twilight lapsed away into the denser shadows of the night.
But, apparently, he took them for the shadows which walked in the dreams of his delirium.
The hemlocks were throwing ever-lengthening shadows on the grass.
Herb was standing on the ground, horn in hand, screened by the great shadows of a clump of hemlocks; the three were perched upon branches high above him, a safe post of observation if any moose had answered.
A man bounded forth from the pitch-black shadows into the clearing, where a little daylight still lingered.
It came to a stop amid shadows so dense and black that they seemed almost tangible, close to a bank fringed with overhanging bushes, having a background of evergreens.
The vague shadows and lights of night were abroad by this time.
On its gravel surface reposed the sharp shadows of the pointed gables above, and the tufts of grass on its surface had not been bruised by recent carriage wheels.
But my melancholy grew deeper; the shadows lengthened--and an irrepressible yearning to revisit Golden Friars and Malory seized me.
The light, as he looked this way and that, touched his energetic bronzed features, the folds of his dress, and the wet planks of the boat, with a fire that contrasted with the grey shadows behind and about.
It is reeking with hearts that ache and break, Which we ought to comfort and strengthen, As we hurry away to the end, my friend, And the shadows behind us lengthen.
And morns will fade, noons pale, and shadows darken, While sad eyes watch for feet that never come.
We think of the mountain’s grandeur As we walk in the heat afar-- But when we sit in the shadows of it We think how at rest we are.
The immediate grounds sloped a little to the south, and beyond them was a very extensive, if somewhat flat, prospect, ending on the horizon in certain mild blue shadows which were believed to be hills.
Again the room was silent, while the fire flickered and painted flame-shadows on the wall, and lit up the dusky corners with its red glow.
The sun set, and shadows began to steal over the sea, gradually and softly wrapping its farther distances in hazy indistinctness.
Ambition sighed; she found it vain to trust The faithless column and the crumbling bust; Huge moles, whoseshadows stretched from shore to shore, Their ruins perished, and their place no more!
The house, this gray evening, with the shadows gathering in the corners, weighed on her.
He saw that she was pale and that there were shadows under her eyes, and the man's tenderness went out to her.
Democracies can no more jump away from their own shadows than the rest of us can.
The shadowslay along Broadway, 'Twas near the twilight-tide-- And slowly there a lady fair Was walking in her pride.
Even in repose the sun threw shadows from the curves of his skin, but when he exerted himself every muscle bunched itself up, distinct and hard, breaking his whole trunk into gnarled knots of sinew.
He still held the light, but his fingers twitched, and with every twitch the shadows sprang from the walls to the ceiling.
Sometimes he would touch one of us with his hand, and sometimes the other, and so he sat, with his soul too satiated for words, whilst the shadows gathered in the little room and the lights of the inn windows glimmered through the gloom.
A long stretch of road lay before us, barred with the shadows of wayside trees.
The sun sank slowly towards the low Surrey hills, and the shadows crept steadily eastwards, but the whirr of the wheels and the roar of the hoofs never slackened.
The light from their lamps seemed to cast strange shadows across the road.
They walked along the high-road for a short distance, then turned up a lane with high banks and hedges, and at last came to the little country church, with some shady elms and beeches casting cool shadows across the sunny churchyard.
Ceridwen consults them before she prepares the mysterious caldron which shadows out the awful catastrophe of the Deluge.
The shadows groan on the ways of Hel (the goddess of death), until the fire of Surt has consumed the tree.
Wildly the din of battle roared in the mountain solitudes, and swiftly, as if in pity, the shadows of the night crept over the bleak hill tops, and up the sombre valleys, until it wrapped conquerors and conquered in its kindly folds.
The shadows of evening were already beginning to gather over the surrounding scene, making objects at a distance somewhat indistinct.
The day was now closing in; the feeble wintry sun had sunk behind a bank of ominous cloud on the western horizon, and the grey bleak shadows of the night were darkening down.
I see the shadows of the night are wearing away from the castle heights, and day breaking in the east!
S: And whoever is in the heavens and the earth makes obeisance to Allah only, willingly and unwillingly, and their shadows too at morn and eve.
Its (very) shadows return from right and left, making obeisance to Allah while they are in utter abasement.
P: Have they not observed all things that Allah hath created, how their shadowsincline to the right and to the left, making prostration unto Allah, and they are lowly?
P: Wait they for naught else than that Allah should come unto them in the shadows of the clouds with the angels?
P: And unto Allah falleth prostrate whosoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, as do their shadows in the morning and the evening hours.
There could be no room for the grey shadowsof doubt any longer.
He rearranged his books and hunted up half-forgotten treasures, slid down the shiny banisters fifty times a day and dispelled the silent lurking shadows with a merry whistle and a laugh that woke an echo in quiet rooms.
Look at the dark shadows over there--on the cornfield.
The fire crackled cheerfully and strange shadows lived uncertain lives on the ceiling.
In the shadows the spirit of Trehayne still seemed to be waiting.
It seemed to me that to our party of three had been added a fourth, the spirit of Trehayne, and that he anxiously waited there yonder in the shadows for the deliverance of our judgment.
Good-by until for us the morning break and theseshadows fly away.
Clemens wrote to Twichell: We like it here in the mountains, in the shadows of Monadnock.
When he came back to the table he said: "Speaking of companions of the long ago, after fifty years they become only shadows and might as well be in the grave.
The dusky shadows from the east that rise, Steal midway o'er the heavens; the blazing car Of Day is sunk; and Sunset's gorgeous dyes Fade fast away.
Saxe was wakeful enough now, and in a very short time the coffee kettle was steaming, while the fire threw strange shadows on the rocky wall.
The sun was now getting so low down that the great ragged pyramids and crags of ice cast fantastic shadows eastward.
I shall be glad when Melchior comes back," said Dale, as they sat resting that night, with the dark shadows gathering in the valley, and the various peaks burning still in the sinking sunlight like glowing fire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shadows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
