Altogether those relics were touchingly significant of the strange, dark, sad career of a wonderful man.
It would be difficult to point to other music more touchingly expressive of deep contrition than the phrase in which Bruennhilde pleads that Wotan himself taught her to love Siegmund.
The general confidence in his supreme honor and integrity which he has always enjoyed corresponds most touchingly to the confidence and respect always inspired by his honored father.
He took it, and took her in his arms again, where she nestled herself down as if she had been a child; with an action that touchingly told him anew that she could rest so well nowhere else.
She looked up at him, a glance which touchingly told him that where he was she wanted nothing; and then turned her eyes again towards the river.
Yielding to necessity, the table is spread, and they sit down, with an appearance of domestic quietness touchingly humble.
How gently heaves that bosom so full of fondness, how marble-like those features, how pallid but touchingly beautiful that face!
She has left us a touchingly simple description of the extraordinary favour referred to, which she always looked on as the first link in the chain of her vocation to the mystic life, and prized accordingly.
The inconsistencies of unsuccessful passion, the wanderings of a mind diseased, and a prey to irresistible desire, he has portrayed more touchingly and truthfully than any French poet before him, or even perhaps after him.
For a few seconds I stood looking at her, so touchingly pale, sad yet calm, a living image of filial piety, of power in thrall to affection.
Nevertheless he had a liking for me, and his friendship showed itselftouchingly through the cruel satisfaction that was mingled with it.
Edward Hill reckoned that in England eight thousand die annually of unhappy love,--of broken hearts, as the Englishwomen touchingly express it.
The English Ass and the German Ass are touchingly alike.
The girl-nymph slenderness and flexibility of her leaning body was almost touchingly lovely.
The passages he selected were really beautiful: they were chiefly from an episode, of Palemon and Anna, excessively delicate, yet tender in the extreme, and most touchingly melancholy.
But his manner, still, was so touchingly kind, so softly gracious, that it doubled my concern to see him so far from well.
She literally went from house to house, and from store to store, presenting her plea so touchingly that few could refuse her.
In Angelina's diary, she describes very touchingly some of her trials in this matter.
Kent's brief speech over the dying Lear had a great effect upon my mind, and was the burthen of my reflections for long, so profoundly, so touchingly generous did it appear in sense, so overpowering in expression.
It was the theory of the time and place that the young, were they but young enough, could take publicly no harm; to which adds itself moreover, and touchingly enough, all the difference of the old importances.
They had even suffered less under the sway of their old oppressors, for, as a priest touchingly remarked to me, "The Kurds took away our lives, but the Turks take away wherewith we have to live.
Touchingly faithful to his old enthusiasm, he busied himself by singling out the wife of the virtuoso on every possible occasion, with the most exaggerated homage and attentions.
Letting his head drop touchingly to one side and having made little narrowed, lachrymose, sweet eyes in his wrinkled old face of a Don Quixote, he was speaking in a persuasively begging tone: "Gentlemen students .
There is something touchingly comic in the childishness of the whole proceeding.
Oppressed, and feeling the need of liberty for itself, it now spoke in the name of liberty, and that so touchingly that all who heard the crocodile weep took it to be a defenceless creature.
No one had fussed over him like that since his mother died, and he was touchingly grateful.
Soon after his talk with Miss Enid he decided to call upon Mr. Chester, not because Mr. Chester was an enlivening companion, but because he was so touchingly grateful for the casual friendship that Quin bestowed upon him.
The foster-daughter cried and pleaded even moretouchingly than before; but all to no avail.
The recognition of Halvor by his mother by the flickering light of the hearth-fire, in whose ashes Halvor was always digging when a boy, is touchingly told.
The full July moon, streaming through the open door, discovered touchingly the hopeless misery of Mariposilla.
As she parted from her lover she unconsciously smiled up into his face a regretful good-night that answered touchingly his own silent renunciation.
When they sit in the middle drawing-room, that looks so touchingly upon our neighbors' brick side-wall, their enjoyment is rare.
The contrast between their past and present condition is touchingly described by the poet.
To this combination of unfavorable circumstances he touchingly refers in the poem of Lochleven, which was actually produced under their influence, as a means of relaxation and enjoyment.
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