That morning, for the first time in her life, Mary travelled in a first-class carriage, an experience far from exciting, since it meant remaining in solitary splendour for the whole of the journey.
When the crucial moment arrived, she intended to seat herself sultana-like on her couch and burst in fullsplendour upon the admiring throngs.
You will not be able to hide your light any longer, and I shall be dazzled by the splendour of it.
Before her stretched a wide expanse of earth and sky, lit into splendour by the rays of the sun which was sinking, a ball of fire, into a sea of flame.
And now my turn comes; pale and trembling under the blinding splendour and the melting heat, it drops at my feet, spinning silently round upon the deck; I try to move my foot away, but cannot.
The electric light was reflected in sparkling splendourfrom the schist, limestone, and old red sandstone of the walls.
It was not the light of the sun, with his dazzling shafts of brightness and the splendour of his rays; nor was it the pale and uncertain shimmer of the moonbeams, the dim reflection of a nobler body of light.
I know that Laura cares not forsplendour or station, and I will request her to become mine, before any one can separate us.
I was recognised by him instantly, notwithstanding my fine apparel; though, to say the truth, the splendour of his own appearance had almost made me doubt his identity.
They were Laura de Villardin, and, hand in hand, my little page Clement de la Marke, dressed in all the splendour of a high noble of those days, and entering with a step that seemed familiar with courtly halls.
For Osmond the place was ugly to distress; the false colours, the sham splendour were like vulgar, bragging, lying talk.
She looked through them at the beauty of the day, the splendour of nature, the sweetness of the old English churchyard, the bowed heads of good friends.
You have struck your roots entirely in German soil; you are, and remain, the glory and splendour of German art.
There is something about you which causes you to appear surrounded by splendour and light, and makes it difficult for us to understand what could make you sad.
The windows are delicately tinted: in spite of the excess of splendour naught can offend the artistic taste.
In such weather the cold splendour of the scene is beyond description; everything is satisfying, from the deep purple of the starry sky to the gleaming bergs and the sparkle of the crystals under foot.
The truth is, as soon as I perceived a few red-coats I had turned another way, to avoid being marched at, and therefore their number and splendour had all been thrown away upon me.
A summer of unusual splendour had passed unblessed away, for the sustained drought represented scanty hay and an aftermath of meagre description.
His mother, returning long before him, was already in some argument with Chris concerning the disposal of certain articles of furniture, the pristine splendour of which had been worn off at Newtake five-and-thirty years before.
Before this incident, however, there had arisen upon Will's life the splendourof paternity.
Detail vanished from the Moor; dim and dimensionless it spread to the transparent splendour of the horizon, and its eternal attributes of great vastness, great loneliness, great silence reigned together unfretted by particulars.
It added not a little to the solid splendour of the apartment, and Mrs. Blanchard viewed it with placid but genuine satisfaction.
But the last vapours quickly vanished; the day grew very hot and, as the sky indicated noon, all things beneath Clement's eyes were soaked in a splendour of June sunlight.
But her eyes were brown, like her dead father's, and a gypsy splendour of black hair crowned her head.
The mellow splendour of these forests extended to the river's brink, along which towered noble masses of giant osmunda, capped by seed spears of tawny red.
Great splendour of light gleamed upon a ring of human beings.
Seven streams of shining splendour rayed his brow, While the dread voice said: 'I am Agni, chiefs!
Splendour of love, in whose sweet light Darkness is past and nought; Ah, beyond words that sound on earth, Golden bloom of the garden of heaven!
A diamond gleamed where Sorrow's tear had fallen, and amethysts glowed now with purple splendour to mark his patient meeting with Defeat.
In the wars which he waged he saw little of the murky splendour which covers the horrors of death.
Seen in the splendour of evening there is a curious savagery about that little patch, which is neither veld nor woodland, but something dwarfish and uncanny.
And then slowly the splendour ebbs, lingering only to the west in a shoreless, magical sea.
One can imagine the fighting, but it will all be too much swept and garnished to call up the scenes of splendour and luxury that were piled one upon another even in times of misery--of war and of flood and of plague.
But in the issue, instead of Rene deriving any splendour from the match, he was involved in the misfortunes of his daughter, and repeatedly obliged to impoverish himself to supply her ransom.
But even out of my ingratitude Thine infinite goodness has brought forth some good; and the greater my wickedness, the greater the splendour of the great mercy of Thy compassions.
I used to keep his feast with all the solemnity I could, but with more vanity than spirituality, seeking rather too muchsplendour and effect, and yet with good intentions.
Hence his processional splendour fatigues, and his descriptive ingenuity comes at length to be deficient in novelty, and all the miracles of art cannot supply us with one touch of nature.
There also exists a race of poems which have hitherto been confined to one subject, which the poet selected from the works of nature, to embellish with all the splendour of poetic imagination.
He pursued his poetical career with uncommon splendourin the Horaces, Cinna, and at length in Polyeucte; which productions, the French critics say, can never be surpassed.
The suddensplendour of the afternoon made me lay down my pen, and tempted me afield.
Her part seemed only as a foil to the sombre splendour of his.
Nor shall I forget the wild gaze of surprise and lust when the Count first beheld the splendid and hairy form of the glorious Frankland when she entered the room in all the dazzling splendour of her perfect nakedness.
Any one might shove his prick against any part of her body, and spend at once from excess of lust, at her very beauty and splendour of form and exquisite colour and fineness of skin.
I forced her down, and she presented her glorious backside, in all itssplendour of rotundity and size, before my delighted gaze.
The stays kept in the waist, and allowed the splendour of her hips and buttocks to stand out in all their glory.
The splendourof my aunt's arse captivated the Frankland and the Count.
T is not mere splendour makes the show august To eye or heart--it is the people's trust.
Meanwhile Miss Field and others flitted about, adding all the luxuries of daily use to the splendour of the rooms.
The very scene of these offences partook, to my rustic apprehension, of fairy splendour and magical abruptness.
My wild reveries of inheriting this splendour and appropriating the affections of this nymph, I now regarded as lunatic hope and childish folly.
Perhaps the turban that wreathed her head, the brilliant texture and inimitable folds of her drapery, and nymphlike port, more than the essential attributes of her person, gave splendour to the celestial vision.
The afternoon was delightful, the setting sun glorious in the crimson splendour of the west, but the elder members of the party driving home to Linau through the warm summer air were scarcely in the mood to enjoy it.
There was only one thing which could justify such a mesalliance, and that was immense wealth on the part of the inferior in rank,--wealth that could reinstate in splendouran impoverished family of noble descent.
Our readers have witnessed the origin of this Love-mania, and with what royal splendour it waxes, and rises.
To them it was as the shining of Heaven's ownSplendour in the waste-howling darkness; the Pillar of Fire by night, that was to guide them on their desolate perilous way.
From of old, was there not in his life a weight of meaning, a terror and a splendour as of Heaven itself?
Like a little well in the rocky desert places,--like a sudden splendour of Heaven in the artificial Vauxhall!
Such a one will take thee back to Nazareth itself; thou wilt see the splendour of Heaven spring forth from the humblest depths of Earth, like a light shining in great darkness.
Eternal Lamp of Love, whose radiant flame Out-darts the heaven's Osiris; and thy gems Darken the splendour of his mid-day beams.
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