Mary Twining does not lose her independence, though, woman like, she seems to enjoy losing herself in the love lavished upon her.
It were better had he or Mary Twining chosen another Time for the Journey.
Twining became the wife of her Cousin Eustace Fleming.
Memoir of Mary Twining THE other day I spent several hours in looking over a lot of dusty volumes which had fallen to me in the way of inheritance.
I made it most evident, but he remarked, with a frown for a less Offender, that he should hold Mistress Twining excused.
The Uttering of such vain proffers as the carrying the Burden of Mary Twining to the World's End, and other Foolishness, hath then a Savour of Reality which concealeth the vain Delusion.
And so on with such Vanities," says the biographer, "as pass Current with young Men and Maidens in their shortsighted Enjoyment of the moment, and with which Mary Twining was but too fain to dally.
So he journeyed on, still making the same inquiry, until at last he came to the brink of a river, where some beautiful girls sat twining wreaths of flowers.
The three boys were very happy gathering flowers and twiningthem into garlands, with which they adorned the little Europa.
Then Elisa looked down confusedly, twining her fingers together, and with a flush on her fair face.
They crowded round him in silence, waiting for him to speak, all save Dona Constancia, who sat still in her chair twining her fingers together nervously, and looking eagerly at him.
Then twining her hands together and with tears of vexation in her eyes, as she saw him smile at her trouble, she turned from him and sought refuge in her own room.
He also wore the red silk sash, through which a broad gold cord ran twining like the strand of a rope.
The fickle stream, when she beheld him, shook her waves like twining arms, and gleamed white with laughing foam, as if she were dancing and smiling because he had so fortunately been reunited with his ministers.
And at that festival the city of Kausambi seemed itself to be dancing, for the pennons agitated by the wind seemed like twining arms, and it was beautified with the toilettes of the city matrons, as if with ornaments.
Captain Twining is a man of really fine intellect combined with a remarkable capacity for getting things done; without his constant presence at my elbow, my work would have been much heavier and much less successful than it was.
He fled he knew not whither; vipers seemed twining round his heart; burning coals were raining on his head, and while heavy weights were clogging his limbs, a thousand fierce bloodhounds urged him to fly.
The foremast had already fallen, the flames were twisting and twining in serpentine forms along the yards and up to the very maintop-gallant masthead.
Several twining species of Mikania adorn the forests of Shoa; two fructiferous Cacaliae, full of a balsamic sap, and one Klenia, exhibit the brightest scarlet in the jungles of Efat.
A genus of twining plants with showy monopetalous flowers, including the morning-glory, the sweet potato, and the cypress vine.
A genus of ferns with twining or climbing fronds, bearing stalked and variously-lobed divisions in pairs.
To unite by twining one with another; to entangle; to interlace.
Running in the same direction; -- said of stems twining round a support, or of the spiral succession of leaves on stems and their branches.
To see how sly and cunning he grubbed on, day after day, a-worming and plodding and tracing and turning and twining of hisself about, till he found out where this precious Mrs Peg was hid, and cleared the ground for me to work upon.
But he comes up once more, and shakes his head, and coughs and clutches tightly to the twining hair, that even in the water has a death-like clamminess in his fingers.
Twining around the railing were the slender shoots of the lush clematis, while the budding honeysuckle filled the air with its sweet, almost sugary perfume.
And Twining doesn't do much but ask you what you think of certain things, and then tell you you are all wrong when he finds out," said Thaddeus.
It was Twining caused the trouble, he had just made the pleasant remark that he wouldn't have an Irish servant in his house, when Mary fired the salute.
Pitt stood and looked and queried; then yielding to some unconscious impulse, he went in through the neglected flowers to the deserted verandah, and spent a quarter of an hour in twining and securing the loose vines.
Miss Betty displayed her roll of muslin, on the free portion of which an elegant line of embroidery was slowly growing, multiplying and reproducing its white buds and leaves and twining shoots.
Farther on, he was amused to see a young elephant twining its trunk about the neck of a graceful zebra, as in an affectionate embrace.
Huge blankets of mist clothed tree and shrub, and a light breeze set up strange cross currents which rolled great white billows one against another, swirling and eddying, twisting and twining like animate things.
Milton, in the following lines, has applied the name to some twining plant, perhaps the honeysuckle.
Upon her head is the coif, bearing in front the mystic uraeus, or twining basilisk of sovereignty, while from its sides depend the wide Egyptian lappels, or wings, that fall upon her shoulders.
A straight and curved moulding surrounds their trefoil heads under a double twining hood-mould.
On the outer side of each window is a twisted shaft with another between them, and from the top of these shafts grow round branches forming an arch over each window, and twining up above them in interlacing curves.
Edward, when the agitation of this sudden meeting had subsided, and he found himself seated on a sofa between his aunt and sister, clasping the hand of the former and twining his arm caressingly round the latter.
Her parents felt she was twining herself more and more around their hearts, and beheld, with inexpressible anguish, that though her young mind was so strong, her fragile frame was too weak to support the constant struggle.
