It is my body leaves my love, not I; My body moves away, but not my mind; For back to her my struggling fancies fly Like silken banners borne against the wind.
Behind the long, silken curtains, the shutters were of bullet-proof steel.
He lay in a silken hammock, smoking those little Brazilian cigarettes which are made of fragrant black tobacco and wrapped in maize leaf.
Death had put on the Emperor's gold crown, and he had the gold sceptre in one hand, and the silken banner in the other; and he looked at the Emperor with his great hollow eyes.
But there were twelve servants appointed to wait on her, and those twelve servants went with her every time she went out, and each of the twelve had hold of the end of a silken string which was tied to the little Nightingale's leg!
Ranged around the building in ring fashion, the hamlet's squat white huts stand girdled with belts of plaited wattle, shawled in the gorgeous silken scarves of gardens, and crowned with a flowered brocadework of reed-thatched roofs.
And upon that a very human tale filtered through the silken monotonous swish of the downpour, with, for listeners to it, only the rain and myself.
He took the soft, silken wrapper from her and wrapped it round her shoulders.
And the unhappy girl knelt at Lady Lanswell's feet, and laid her head on the silken folds of her dress.
The elegant embossed binding is similar to that of last year, which we mentioned to our readers, and which we think an improvement on the silken array.
The long black hair From the fillet's silken band In dishevelled masses riven, Is streaming downwards to the floor.
There were silken young caribou hides, soft, fluffy white and blue fox pelts, as well as the skins of hares and the young of bears.
Her dark silken hair straggled luxuriantly from under the loose hood of immaculate white fox fur which had fallen back from her head.
Under pavilions of Oriental weave, silken carpets were spread over the turf for royal feet to tread, and thrones erected from which the sovereigns issued their commands.
The men smiled grimly, and the elder made a signal, as though to someone behind me, and next instant I felt a silkencord slipped over my head and pulled tight by an unseen hand.
So the princess wore beautiful garments made of silken gossamer, and the spiders wove a new robe for her every morning, just when the sun was up.
To the high and mighty they present wine, or a capon, or money discreetly jingling in the depths of a silken purse.
What sighs of relief when the stranger trots off again, sitting high on his horse and taking with him a silken purse, or a blood-band or a pair of gloves in "courtesy" from the nuns.
In the same year Anne St Quintin left the same noble lady "one silkenquilt and one pair of sheets of cloth of Rennes"[1019].
She was sitting by her table and leant her hand upon her cheek; she had been sewing a white band with pearls and silken roses in red and leaves in green, and it fell now to her feet from her lap.
Her downcast eyes were shielded by long curving lashes; high arched silken brows showed dark against a skin as fresh and free from chemist's pigment as the petal of a rose.
She looked at them carefully and slipped them into her bosom, and then, reaching under the pile of silken pillows, she pulled forth the geography.
The purplish dusk was velvet overhead, and silken smooth below.
A wide, white silkenscarf of Sophy's formed his peplum.
Silken banners and plumes of many bright hues floated on the breeze.
You saw her fine dress and pretty pale face, but you didn't see her little shrunken foot, dangling helplessly beneath the silken robe.
These were merely of three colours, white, red and green; but its silken stuffs were strong and heavy, and were worn for a long time as the favourite royal and princely robes in many lands.
The large, stiff, silken garments of staring colours are in striking contrast with the high and spurred boots.
It is on the Turkestan boundary, has a weekly market, at which much silkenstuff is sold.
The firelight flickered and danced across thesilken shimmer of it.
There was a brief and futile struggle, and a hissing of breath in the silence till the hat tumbled from the head of Jack and down over the shoulders streamed a torrent of silken black hair.
Charlotte's face, gazing downward at the silken breadths, had quite its natural expression.
Charlotte slipped off her calico waist, and thrust her firm white arms into the flaring silken sleeves of the wedding-gown.
Over it lay a silvery lustre that was the very light of the silken fabric.
Charlotte took up the skirt, and slipped it, loud with silken whispers, over her head.
Barney, watching out from his window that Sunday, caught a flash of green and purple from Sylvia's silken skirt as she turned the corner of the old road with Richard.
The body-guards of the Abbot of Unreason were all arrayed in gaudy colors bedecked with gold or silver lace, with embroidery and silken scarfs, the fringed ends of which floated in the wind.
The silken clad, who courtly breeding boast, Their own discourse still sweetest to their ears, May grumble at the old man's lengthened story, But here it is not so.
Then to his lord he hied him straight, Where round on silken seat Sat many a courteous dame and knight.
Full hard against his writhing brows His clenched hands he prest; Full high his lab'ring bosom rose, And rent its silken vest.
She sighed it rather than spoke aloud; the next instant she had slipped away through the shrubbery, with a swift, cruel rustle of her silken dress, toward the parsonage.
Big barges full of yellow hay Are moored against the shadowy wharf, And, like a yellow silken scarf, The thick fog hangs along the quay.
