And why my fury, my insignificant flame, blowing here and there, when there is really no wind, only a shroud of still air, and these flowers of sunlight that have been dropped on me!
And these shadowy figures, wrapped each in his own little shroud of fog, took no notice of each other.
Reaching up, he grasped hold of the shroud lines, twisted around and glanced toward the north.
The silk of his parachute clung to it in shreds, and the shroud lines were wrapped about jutting rocks like a spider's web.
Another few seconds and he was dangling feet downward at the ends of the parachute shroud lines and swaying gently back and forth like the pendulum of a clock.
As he spoke the last, he started gathering up the tangle of parachute harness, shroud lines, and silk.
He shot up both hands and grabbed hold of the shroud lines on the right and pulled downward with every ounce of his strength.
He relaxed his grip on the shroud lines, returned his gaze to the shadows directly underneath him and silently praised Flight Lieutenant Wiggins' flying and navigating ability.
How come he had been left hanging unconscious on his parachute shroudlines for the rest of the day?
And the fourth, and perhaps the most important realization of all, was that he was dangling at the ends of the shroud lines of his parachute, which was hopelessly fouled in the crooked and gnarled branches of a scrub tree.
This red gown will make a shroud Good as any other!
The Shroud Death, I say, my heart is bowed Unto thine,--O mother!
No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Never yet was royal banner Steeped in such a costly dye; It hath lain upon a bosom Where no other shroud shall lie.
It is believed that shortly before a death takes place among the inhabitants, a tall withered female may be seen in the twilight, just yonder where the rocks open, washing a shroud in the stream.
The sun, labouring too, was climbing upwards in a shroud of glory.
The mother prays for her sailor-boy when "His heavy-shotted hammock-shroud Drops in his vast and wandering grave.
Oh, evil the black shroudof night of Chantilly, That hid him from sight of his brave men and tried!
Oh, evil the black shroud of night of Chantilly, That hid him from sight of his brave men and tried.
Now he knows, with a shudder of dread, The Ghost of the Well he has looked upon Washing the shroud for some one dead-- Some one dear to him, dead and gone!
And from that pallor of the dead, we borrow the expressive hue of the shroud in which we wrap them.
Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
Meanwhile, Shmul had finished praying; he removed theshroud and cap, put them away in the room, then returned with slow step, important and calm.
Last night the gifted seer did view A wet shroud swathed round lady gay; Then stay thee, Fair, in Ravensheuch; Why cross the gloomy firth to-day?
But she begged for just two hours to herself, that she might make her will, and send for the sheriff's secretary to draw it up properly; also to search for her shroud which lay in her chest.
Let no cloud, Here in the very morn of our delight, Drift up from distant foreign skies, to shroud Our sun of love whose radiance is so bright.
He bade them on their wings bear blackest storm To upheave the sea, and shroud Caphereus' heights.
Gazing down in her white shroud From the edging cloud Comes at night the dimpled moon, Comes, and like a ghost is gone 'Neath the flying cloud O'er the haunted house.
Unhappy memories and wretched degradation would close his unhappy days and shroud his name with an unmerited and unjust obloquy.
In a thick grove of cedars, in the shroud of the blackest night, Arnold waited the return of the rowboat, its oars muffled with sheepskins, its passenger on board.
It was a setting well fitted to shroud deep and dark designs.
I would like to be one of the liaison chaps and fall if I must in a shroud of white swords.
The maiden's kiss was for the Flag, the death-shroud of the brave.
Splendid in sunshine, steadfast under storms, Facing the fiercest tempests with disdain, The blackest clouds that shroud your giant forms, Leave on your glittering panoply no stain.
