We may talk of merry frosty days and starlit nights and unsullied snow and Christmas cheer; but the potter and the iron-worker know as much about cheeriness as they do about stainless snow.
Everything seems so delightfully placid and clear that the thought of danger vanishes; no one would imagine that even a sea-bird could come up unobserved over that starlit expanse of water.
By slow degrees it spread over the starlit sky, lightening its blackness to a deep Prussian blue, and lining the sable clouds on the horizon with silver.
With a hurried exclamation he ran across the empty room to the door and looked down the starlit street.
There was something in their sphynx-like attitude, in the moveless reaching of their muzzles out into the wonderful starlit mystery of the still night that filled him with an indefinable sense of awe.
It was a beautiful, cool, starlit evening in the middle of June when we drove up the imposing avenue of banyan-trees which leads to the main entrance.
Chumbley strolled on with the Princess in the soft light shed by the paper lanterns beneath the spreading palms, between whose mighty pinnate leaves an occasional glimpse of the lustrous starlitsky could be obtained.
Lights are moving about in the town beneath; there is an unwonted midnight stir and bustle; the whole population is up and about, running hither and thither with lamps and torches through the starlit night.
In this starlit hour among the pine woods his life came to its meridian; everything that was him was at its best and greatest there.
The group gave way, and by the light of the clear starlit skies, and a single lamp hung at the entrance of the alley, gazed upon the stranger.
Poor Winnie looked a little crestfallen but cheered up under the promise of chocolates, and a minute or two later they were outside in the starlit night, tasting the salt freshness of the air.
The glass roof of the Promenade Hall glimmered faintly under the immense sweep of starlit sky, and the quiet waves drew away--"C-raunch!
But the faint shadows, in that starlit vista, were unwavering.
The darkness, the shore, the starlit gardens were just the same.
They carried lights, and as they flew in the starlit sky they themselves looked like shooting stars until they dropped low, when their planes were diaphanous as butterfly's wings in sunlight.
So we discussed the world, while the music played under the starlit southern night.
Who would grudge them these primordial joys, conducted under the indulgent motherly eye of Madonna, and hallowed by antiquity and the starlit heavens above?
I remember a night in September of 1908, a Sunday night, fragrant with the odours of withered rosemary and cistus and fennel that streamed in aromatic showers from the scorched heights overhead--a starlit night, tranquil and calm.
Suspended on starlit waters as if in eternity, and watching the smoke of her past go up from a looted island, Elizabeth had the sense of a great company around her.
Two starlit eyes looked wonderingly down into his.
Daylight dies hard up here in the mountains, but at last twilight held the world, a clear, starlit twilight.
When the last car dipped into the mouth of the snow-shed he was still standing there, gazing after, his hat in hand, a straight, lithe figure against the starlit sky.
Ye have won the crown immortal, And the cross of death is o'er, When the oriflamme is burning On the starlit Eden shore!
We must win the crown immortal, Follow where they led before, Where the oriflamme is burning, On the starlit Eden shore.
When the oriflamme is burning, On the starlit Eden shore.
She was, as we have seen, the survivor of his Royal father, and the kindness which she had received from Genji was to her like the reflection of the broad starlit sky in a basin of water.
I knew this, but a strange confusion fell upon me when I found myself out of doors, under the blue-black starlit sky.
Outside in the courtyard under the dark, starlit sky, I found Peter with Mademoiselle Capello and Gaston Cheverny.
I strolled leisurely back to the inn, beneath the starlit heavens.
It was Japheth Pettigrass; and what he said was said to the starlit night outside.
When he could bear it no longer, he crossed the room to the western window, drawing the draperies and standing between them to stare miserably out into the calm, starlit void.
The house was intensely quiet in the midst of the starlit silence, and he dreaded above all things to have Mrs. Jebb peering at him over the banisters in curling pins and dressing-gown as he went out of the door.
At last the apples were all gathered, and the misty twilight had cleared into the soft radiance of a starlit night.
I would give a great deal to see this brilliantly starlit sky overcast, but we must take things as we find them, and only use the greater precautions.
The trees were dark and tall about him and loomed overhead against the starlit sky, and the broad high moon threw a thick tracery of shadows on the dusty white road where the horses stood.
The night was calm, still and starlit when I started.
The night was sultry and the sky was brightly starlit as Nosembe glided between the patches of scrub which dappled the hillside at the back of the kraal.
So in thosestarlit hours that dragged interminably he looked deep into his heart and tried to fortify himself against a dark and evil moment to come.
