Doubtless some of the acquiescent wights entertained a vague wonder how the army contrived to fare onward bereft of his advice.
There was a vague change in the expression of his face.
I began to speak in a vague way of going, but she would not hear of it, and before I knew it I had promised to stay a week and hunt with hawk and hound in their company.
But Sylvia,--he could not be what he had been to her, and yet a vague terror seized him, now all was said.
As I lie here, writing, careless even whether or not I die before I finish, I can see the doctor gathering up his powders and phials with a vague gesture to the good priest beside me, which I understand.
I looked across the square to where the fountain was playing and then, with my mind filled with vague impressions of trees, asphalt drives, and the moving groups of nursemaids and holiday-makers, I started to walk back to my easel.
The only answer was a vague gesture from Clifford.
Your aunt is peculiar," Mrs. Toland said, with vague disapproval, compressing her lips.
They left her with a vaguefeeling of shame, a consciousness of compromise.
The sweetness of the dying spring day flooded the city, and its very essence pierced Julia's heart with a vague pain that was a pleasure, too.
He had loitered no farther than the corner, a hundred feet away, and was standing there, irresolute, stooped, still wearing his look of vague bewilderment.
Her straight little back, her severe braids, her stern blue eyes roving the hall as she touched the familiar chords, were all so different from the vague young women who were Barbara's friends.
Julia felt a vague new restlessness and discontent assail her at this contact with Barbara's full and happy life.
And that afternoon, in vague hope of news of her mother, she took a Mission Street car and went out to call on her grandmother.
Vague chills shook her, she felt that tears were near, she had a hideous misgiving as to her power to keep from fainting.
She began to see that the moods of those early years, however violent and changing, had been fed upon secret springs of hope, hopevague and baseless enough, but strong to colour a girl's life with all the brightness of a thousand dawns.
I cannot tell what we would give you," said Elsie, "until I have something more distinct than these vague threats; but you may be sure that we will give you as much as it is worth.
She may write again when she finds she gets no answer, and bring forward something more tangible than these vague allegations.
Mere vague hints, half recollected now that the subject has been brought prominently forward, though they may convince you and me, could not stand before a court of law.
Dorothy Gilbert might have had more or less vague doubts, but it never had been brought clearly home to her that a man could be anything but a gentleman till she entered that guest-room and was introduced to Mr Emmett.
Still, one is bound to admit that, from the merely ornamental point of view, a lovely girl is more interesting than the other sort; and I've a vague suspicion that some men are of that opinion to quite an appreciable extent.
Beyond that purposely vague statement I must beg you, my lord, not to press me to go.
Dessert was still upon the table; there were knives and forks; other articles which were possibly of silver; but they were not coin of the realm; though she had a vague idea that they might be turned into it.
In a corner of the canvas, as they came nearer, they distinguished a bare foot emerging from the chaos of color, half-tints and vague shadows that made up a dim, formless fog.
It seemed to her that her own love had grown less already, with a vague suspicion that the painter had fallen somewhat in her eyes.
They began to have some understanding, vague though it was, of the ecstasy in which he lived.
One does not easily get rid of a vague sense of injustice in this, but the injustice was not of man's contriving.
The only explanation would be that the "vague sense of injustice" mentioned below must have been felt by him so keenly as to warp for the moment his moral judgment.
A vague uneasiness filled Cayrol's heart, a shadow seemed to pass before his eyes, and in a troubled voice he said to the mistress: "Why so?
With the vague instinct of abandoned children who seek to attach themselves to some one or some thing, Jeanne clung to Madame Desvarennes, who, ready to protect, and longing for maternity, took the child in her arms.
His moral sense had disappeared, but he had a vague instinct of the danger he had incurred.
General Brussilov addressed the Conference in a short speech, which struck me as being very vague and commonplace.
She struck the refractory sheet of music flat upon the rack with her palm, and then tilted her head over her shoulder towards Langbourne, who had risen with some vague notion of turning the sheets of the song.
The blue eyes of June Alber made themselves one with the sky and the river again, and all three laughed at him for his folly in leaving the certain delight they embodied for the vague good of a whim fulfilled.
He always spoke well, poor fellow," I said with a vague amusement.
The head waiter was rather vague about their past; but he was distinct enough about their present, and said the young ladies happened all to be at home.
There was a shadowy fear, a vague distrust in my mind, not to be put away.
I had the honour to know Mr. Darrell very well when I was a lad, and I have a vague recollection of a small child in white frock, who, I think, must have been yourself.
I found it so difficult to cheer him with hopeful words, when my own heart was hourly growing heavier, and the fears that had been vague and shadowy were gathering strength and shape.
Milly and I had been very happy together, and I think we both looked forward with a vague dread to the coming break in our lives.
Then, with some vague idea that I had earned a right to some show of confidence on his part, I added insinuatingly: "I supposed you would feel the case settled when she almost fainted at the sight of the younger Mr. Van Burnam.
The Spaniards profited greatly by this vague and all but universal distrust.
In capitulo simply means "in chapter," and in loco capitulari and in domo capitulari are vague phrases which may either mean a chapter-house, or a place used for the sittings of the chapter.
We never read any passage which indicated notions so vague and confused.
The conception on this subject, he tells us, which exists in the minds of most men is vague and undistinguishing.
His whole labour is a plea for some vague but comfortable faith which he dreads to have stolen from him by the progress of art and knowledge.
Now that the hue of daily adventure is so dull, when religion for the most part is so vague and accommodating, when even war is a vast impersonal business, nationality seems to have slipped into the place of honour.
These propositions, in order to be executed, required the approbation of the sovereigns, and most of the ambassadors made only vague promises.
The royal authority was everywhere, with here and there a passing exception, a vague and indefinite thing, hemmed in and jealously watched by barons, more powerful than the king in everything but name.
She was thinking of that strange occurrence in the morning of which she was not to speak; and in a vague kind of way she could not but associate that with Meenie's absence all that day, and also with the unusual tone of her 'good-bye.
Little Maggie was distressed in a vague way, for she had formed a warm affection for Meenie Douglas, and it seemed hard and strange that her own brother should show himself so distant in manner.
With vague foreboding he saw the white horsemen coming nearer.
The submarine had again risen to the surface and was plugging away in a southerly direction on her vague quest for the unbeatable "Vorwartz.
She had a repute for good works which was out of proportion to the works, as it always is, but she was really active in that way, under the vague obligation, which we now all feel, to be helpful.
Christine made the delay, both because she wished to show Miss Vance that she was (not) anxious, and because she had some vague notion of the distinction of arriving late at any sort of entertainment.
Basil felt an indefinable dread, as above it shimmered forth the vague resemblance of a man on horseback, apparently riding at breakneck speed.
The lone pilgrim could not but admit that the shadows of worldly empire, which had deserted her, still clung to Rome in her ruins, even though to him the desolation which dominated all sides had but a vague and dreamlike meaning.
Their talk died to a vague murmur till presently the harsher voice rose above the silence.
Though possessed with a vague assurance of his own dark powers, controlled by his nerve and coolness, Hormazd could read in that fair, inscrutable face far more than in the magic scrolls.
A dull pang struck his heart, a chill of vague uncertainty and dread.
Some mysterious signs passed between them, meaningless words that struck Tristan's ear with the vague memory of a dimly remembered dream.
Across that sky dark clouds, with ever-changing shapes, rolled slowly, and presently condensed into a vague shadowy form, while the torpid waves droned a muffled and unearthly dirge.
In some vague way, he thought, she might be of service to him.
The figures of the saints seemed vague and formless.
As evening approached she strolled down to the Tiber, with a strange persistency and the vague expectation of Tristan's return.
There were pearl lights and lights of sapphire; falling radiances of emerald and blood-red; vague translucent greens, that seemed to tremble under spiral clouds of incense.
He had a vague idea there was something to be said for his side, but he did not just know what.
There had been a vague half-expectation that Lieutenant Ralston would make some effort to assure her of his constancy.
