The king also put upon Sulamith's neck carcanets of great price, of pearls that had been dived for in the Persian Sea by his subjects; and the pearls put on a living lustre and a softcolour from the warmth of her body.
From behind, Madame felt two soft hands close on her straining eyes, and a sympathetic voice: "Has daddy been scolding you again?
Still farther a misty haze of distant mountains rose, with the great soft bell of the curving sky hovering over all.
Through it all was the soft swish of the falling spray, the sharp blip!
From the doorway of the tomb we could feast our eyes on unrivalled scenery, bask in the sun, scent the soft zephyrs with the aroma of tobacco, and envy no man.
Brown to black hair, with soft liquid brown eyes, rich red lips, and a rosy flush in their tawny faces.
Here he made many friends, and during his stay in the region acquired an intense love for the scenery of the hills, whose long gentle slopes and soft melancholy always appealed to him more than the stern grandeur of the Highlands.
They may stumble an' throw us, but as we'll hit in soft mud it ain't likely to hurt us.
A soft healing breeze stirred the leaves and grass.
If it was soft mud down below we might not get hurt mortal.
She on whose tongue a whirlwind sits to blow A man out of himself, from his soft pillow To lean his head on rocks and fighting waves, Is not that scold a witch?
Your hearts of sponges, soft and smooth in show, But touched, with poison they do overflow.
The soft mixed metal of which that worthless coining was composed, was known among the Irish as Uim bog, pronounced Oom-bug, i.
A pretty girl: and in her tender eyes, Just that softshade of green we sometimes see In evening skies.
Of splendid, and resistless fire, Lays all its pointed arrows by, For the mild gleams of soft desire!
Ye streams, that play'd Around her limbs in Summer's ardent reign, The soft resplendence of those azure eyes Ting'd ye with living light.
Dimly the soft and musing Form is seen In the hush'd, shelly, shadowy, lone concave.
There are few more pleasing bits of masonry in Britain than the great cathedral gateway at the foot of Mercery Lane, with its rich carving, weather-worn to a soft blur of gray and brown tones.
The ruins are not extensive, but the crumbling walls, bright with ivy and wall flowers, and with the soft green lawn beneath, made a delightful picture in the mottled sunshine and shadows of the English May day.
Much of the beauty of the landscape was hidden in the gray mist, and the distant Welsh hills, rich with soft coloring on clear days, were entirely lost to us.
We saw few more beautiful landscapes than those which stretched away under the soft glow of the English twilight from the upland road leading out of Rye.
He said that the stone of the screen is rather soft and brittle, and that in cleaning it was never touched, the dust being blown away with bellows.
The old buildings lining the winding river and canal form in many places delightful vistas in soft colors almost as picturesque as bits of Venice itself.
The whole effect was delightful and so soft with sunset colors as to be suggestive of Venice.
The murmur of the nearby Swale and the notes of the English thrushes filled the air with soft melody.
Just across the lake, which gradually grew narrower as we went north, lay the low Scotch mountains, their green outlines subdued by a soft blue haze, but forming a striking background to the ever-varying scenery of the lake and opposite shore.
The two women approached the bush and Mrs. Boynton carefully parted the leaves to show the dainty morsel of a home thatched with soft gray-green and lined with down.
Waitstill and Ivory went into Mrs. Boynton's room quietly, hand in hand, and when she saw Waitstill she raised herself from her pillow and held out her arms with a soft cry of delight.
I thought I'd begin making some softsoap to-day," said Patty mischievously, as she left the room.
There had been a soft rain in the night and every spear of grass was brilliantly green and tipped with crystal.
One may hear tunes from the Rime, said he, in the thick of a storm on the scarp of a rough hill, in the soft June weather, or in the sunset silence of a winter's night.
Sim stumbled over a soft body, and a hand caught feebly at his heel.
Anon it was evening, and the melody dwelled among the high soft notes which mean the coming of dark and the green light of sunset.
It would speak of the soft shiny night with the moon high in the heavens.
It flashed in the sunlight, and then sank in the soft green tides so noiselessly that it seemed as if the hand of the Sea-god had been stretched to take it.
The sun in the heavens, the mellow lines of upland, the blue mystery of the far plains, were all part of that soft voice.
The pony, with a great eleven-pointer lurching athwart its back, was abreast of us, and from the autumn mist came the sound of soft Highland voices.
And in it were the sting of rain and the blatter of hail, the soft crush of snow and the rattle of thunder among crags.
The great fire, where the Grove had been, was still blazing fiercely, and the smoke made a cloud over the upper glen, and filled all the air with a soft violet haze.
We were making our way over a light-coloured soft sand, sprinkled in some places with tall grass, rising in tufts, with bare spots between them.
It is strange that, huge as the elephant is, from the soft padding of its feet, the sound of its steps is not heard even on hard ground.
The flesh wassoft and gelatinous, greatly resembling calves-head, and was so tender that we could scoop it out with a spoon.
English coal is all soft coal, and the stone is soft stone.
Soft maple makes a very fine white sugar, superior in quality, but far less in quantity.
Every root and rootlet under ground must have felt it; the buds of the softmaple and silver poplar felt it, and swelled perceptibly during the day.
I thought it a significant fact that I found no place of amusement set apart for the men; where one sex went the other went; what was sauce for the gander was sauce for the goose; and the spirit that prevailed was soft and human accordingly.
The silver poplars were masses of soft gray bloom, and the willows down toward the river seemed to have slipped off their old bark and on their new in a single night.
A maple before your windows in October, when the sun shines upon it, will make up for a good deal of the light it has excluded; it fills the room with a soft goldenglow.
As he sat there in the soft spring morning a little bird perched itself on a budding bough, and began to chirp.
But the burning stack was even farther from the fence than the first one had been--and there were no marks of feet in the soft earth on Mrs. Atterson's side of the boundary.
Beyond a fir plantation, high on the hillside, the sharply outlined steeple of a little church lay against the soft blue horizon.
Finally he took a turn of the bow-string about the pencil, fitted the point into the soft pine that rested on the floor, and the other end into the hard wood block on which he leaned his breast.
This is said to be an excellent developer, giving soft negatives full of detail, but requiring more time than other developing agents.
With one hand he now drew the bow swiftly to and fro, causing the pencil to revolve with great rapidity, and with the other he held a small quantity of tinder close to its point of contact with the soft pine.
He selected a bit ofsoft pine, and worked a hole in it with the point of his knife.
Yet the hardy storm-children of Ennishowen love the seals although they eat their fish--for their coats are warm and soft to wear; their oil gives light through the long winter evenings for weaving of stuff and net-mending.
A birth in which we have a mighty interest is about to take place, but every now and then comes to the heart the impression of low whispering and soft treading in the back-ground, as of those who wait about a death-bed.
To the rudest carol that ever flung its notes upon the still air of these solemn hours we have hearkened with a hush of pleasure which recognized how well-- "Soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony!
Cotton wool, sheeps' wool, and soft stuffs, generally are bad conductors of sound.
Looking about him, he perceived near at hand a sofa of rich brocade, covered with a multitude of soft and luxurious pillows.
