He was now becoming an old man; his friends sinking round him one by one; his path desolate, encompassed with danger: unless he could find hope in his own heart, the outward face of things was but hopeless for him.
I said, my heart sinking as I thought of my conversation with Sergeant Daw in the morning, and of the disturbing and harrowing fears which it had left in my mind.
He pointed to where the sun was sinkinginto the sea in a halo of golden fire, and his face was as set as flint.
I listened with a sinking heart; for, though his manner was not illuminative of distrust, his argument was disturbing.
Margaret must have had a suspicion of what was coming, for it was with a sinking voice that she asked: "What are you going to do now?
The rash mariner who trusts the gale of winter draws fate on himself with his own hands; Cleonicus, hastening home to Thasos with his merchandise from Hollow Syria at the setting of the Pleiad, sinks with the sinking star.
Carroty hair and freckles, and a figure bobbing out where it should go in, and sinking into a great hole where it should bob out, and feet!
Her sinking was the climax of the most memorable voyage I ever expect to take.
Guadazni sang amongst the other musicians, but seemed to be sinking apace into devotion and obscurity.
The form of the hillocks is varied and picturesque, and the sun, sinking behind them, suffuses their summits with tints of the brightest orange.
I traced the course of these exotic insects by their blue light, now rising to the summits of the trees, now sinking to the ground and associating with vulgar glow-worms.
Sinking to the ground, I wept bitterly for three-quarters of an hour, when hunger beginning to assert itself, I started upon this long journey, which has at length brought me to you.
Like the captain of a sinking ship, the noble fellow had waited until all had found safety before he sought it for himself.
Presently I was astonished and alarmed to find that the bottom of the barrel, which I had imagined to rest on the earth, began to give way and open like a trap-door, and I felt myself sinking lower and lower, down a sort of well.
Juliet, sinking on her knees beside him, and clasping his fettered hands within her own.
The depth increases as we travel south or north from the equator, and corresponds with the shape of the earth's surface, sinking under the valleys, and rising under the hills.
Knowledge of Medicine enables the physician to overcome the ravages of disease, and to save suffering patients from sinking prematurely to the grave.
I have a sinking of the heart, even now, when I recall our setting out.
I remember to this hour the sinking of the heart with which I heard him.
In one more burst it sings in big and little in the same alluring harmony, whence it dies down to soothing close in brilliant gamut as of sinking sun.
He wished he had stayed at camp as Hugh had told him to, but it was all so quick that he was conscious of nothing except a horrible sinking of the heart, and this feeling that he was helpless.
A curious sinking sensation came over him as he heard them.
It was the older Jimbo that preferred captivity to escape without her, whereas every minute now he was sinking deeper into the normal child state in which the intuitive flashes from the buried soul became more and more rare.
For a short time he succeeded, but he soon felt himself sinking gradually downwards again.
Clear the wall without sinking into the yard, and mind he doesn't tear your wings off as you fly by.
There are sunsets more rich and glowing, but if we see them, it will be to think of that sinking orb which sent its last rays over that wide river, and lit up in a golden glory this little chamber.
With this brief prelude, Cashel commenced a narrative of the voyage from the evening of the departure from Kingstown to the moment of the vessel's sinking off the south coast.
Every crime Has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
That day when thou didst leap from off the rock Into the waves, and grasped thysinking brother, And bore him to the strand; then, son of Valdez, How sweet and musical the name of Alvar!
He was particularly anxious that Dr Pendle's guilt should be proved without loss of time, as Mr Leigh of Heathcroft was sinking rapidly, and on any day a new rector might be needed for that very desirable parish.
Arcadian rhyme, and with the sinking sun dies the glory of the day.
The Experiment of a brass Ketle swiming when empty, & sinking when full, alledged to prove that water gravitates in water, answered.
The diversity of Figures given to this or that Solid, cannot any way be a Cause of its absolute Sinking or Swimming.
Think of that, ye who gloat over the sinking of my mortal self.
The moon, resembling a crushed orange, is sinkingin the Mediterranean.
Whether the failure of food to reach us were due to the sinking of our ships at sea or the failure of those ships to obtain cargoes at the port of embarkation the result in the end would be the same.
We must finance our customers or lose them and share their ruin, sinking deeper every month into the morass of doles and relief works.
And there follows, of course, the usual invective about the submarines, war criminals, the sinking of hospital ships, and the approval by the whole German people of all these crimes.
Few sailors can behold the ship in which they have sailed sinking before their eyes without the same emotion of distress and pity almost which the spectacle of a drowning man excites in them.
There were times when despair looked blankly from Millicent Hallam's eyes as she saw the months glide by and her husband surely and slowly sinking into sensuality.
The afternoon had passed away, and the fast-sinking sun had turned the clear sky to gold; and as the great orb of day descended to where a low bank of clouds lay upon the horizon, it seemed to glide quickly from their view.
Seen by the glory of the sinking sun, and after the long, monotonous voyage, it was like some glimpse of Eden, and with one consent the soldiers sent forth a hearty cheer, which died away into silence as the great ship glided on.
The evening-blood of the sinking sun flowed into the clouds, as into the sea sinks the blood of its giants dying in its depths.
O Eternal One, I go; on the longest day the happy spirit wings its way out of this temple of the sun, and the green earth opens and closes with its flowers over my sinking chrysalis, and covers the heart that is gone with roses.
I do not rejoice extraordinarily in the fact that half an ounce of grains of sleep can eat away clean out of man a whole glowing world, and that the turning over of the body is the sinking of his paradise and his hell.
Already the sun wassinking and the air was growing chill, and a mist was gathering under the trees in the Landslip.
The fire was sinking down and Denys rose and lit a candle and looked at herself critically in the glass, and then she laughed into her own face at the ridiculousness of the position.
The Hun U-boats at that time were sinking ships and cargoes at a rate that the governments concerned did not even dare to make public.
