Account for this, if you can, and compare it with the reported apparition of the famous luminous elephant said to be visible to the Lairds of Glenhuish whenever the amount of their butcher's-book reaches the sum of L20.
Now the lights of Falmouth were visible to us at the bottom of the bay, now the Lizard obscured them from us.
There would be no visible drunkenness if a law like this were passed and rigorously enforced.
And some little change had taken place during his absence in his visible equipage.
The horse for no visible reason shied in violent terror, and Flaminius was thrown headlong to the ground.
Thus is rendered visible the motion which the table has in common with the earth.
This luminous appearance is the more visiblein proportion to the darkness of the night.
Puck had closely studied the emotions which became visible in my face; but as soon as he discovered that I was kindly disposed toward his new friend, he jumped up to him.
Such was the outward and visible form of one whom the passenger would stop to stare at as a droll, and the philosopher to contemplate as a study.
At Venice I perceived it quite different, the civil authority having a visible superiority over the ecclesiastic, and the Church being more subject there to the State than in any other part of Italy.
The loyalty of the English gentry was not only worth notice, but the power of the gentry is extraordinary visible in this matter.
The east window has much old glass, which is also visible in the heads of the other windows.
Too, there was a pride in such a location, to show off a fine meeting-house, which would thus be visible for many miles around.
The whole way presented evident remains of volcanic eruptions; piles and veins of lava were visible in all directions, and the rocks bore marks of having been in a state of fusion.
The Sunday was religiously kept; an observance which was so acceptable to God, that once especially it was recompensed in a very visible manner.
Stocks, pillory, bread and water, all were applied, but without visible effect, because so many escaped.
The visible presence of so much wealth helped to make London great and proud.
My eyes could behold no form which I could approach unto; no visible steps for me to follow; hear no audible voice of comfort to encourage, of instruction to enlighten, and of commands to obey.
It got the name 'Dead Sea' from its resemblance to a human being who is constantly taking in God's gifts, and giving nothing out in any visible way.
Since the church is the outward, visible form of God's kingdom on earth, it is of the utmost importance that the church give expression to and be a representative of the soul and spirit of the kingdom.
It was plainly visible in their steps that their heads were not exactly level.
A very large part of Hardy County, with its magnificent streams and rich bottoms, isvisible to the eye.
That law is the Lord's will made visible in the order of his brethren, carried out in the forms of church organization by means of established ordinances appointed by him.
This disease affected every part of the body; but, like smallpox and some other kindred affections, it made itself mostly visible upon the surface of the body.
Whatever else baptism may signify, to my mind it is plain that it is the visible door to the visible kingdom of heaven on earth.
Let me say to you, my dear young friend, that Jesus is here as truly now as he was when visible to natural eyes.
Again: The children of Israel were baptized unto Moses, that is, into a visible covenant with him, in the cloud and in the Red Sea, as they passed through.
But the Lord's sermon to Nicodemus gives the crown to baptism as the visible birth into the visible church.
It is not something representative, with visible outlines and surfaces that you can perceive by means of your senses.
In the last we are governed almost exclusively by the visible and tangible symptoms; but regarding the first, we are deprived of all these, and are compelled to rely mainly upon the oral testimony of the sufferer himself.
No change from that meekness and lowliness of heart that characterized his whole life was visible now.
Brother Sam Wampler noticed the deep interest visible in the congregation, and, I suppose, contrasted it in his mind with that manifest on occasions when none but our home preachers are present.
His features bore no visible mark of agitation as he perused the vile scrawl.
Capes looked at one and not over one, spoke to one, treated one as a visible concrete fact.
It ceased to be the symbol of liberty and a remote and quite abstracted person, and became suddenly and very disagreeably the token of a large and portentous bodyvisible and tangible.
And the chimney of the house was visible and there a certain spark glistened, looked down and seemed to think of its own affairs.
Jesus laid His hand on Peter's shoulder, while with His other He pointed into the distance, where Jerusalem had just become visible in the smoke.
Neither the rock nor the castle is visible now; only the light in the window is redder and brighter.
In the chancel, especially, everything was as clearly visible as by daylight.
He saw at once that their conversation had been a distressing one; the traces of agitation were visible in both of them, and Martini was unusually silent and glum.
This retailing of her private sorrows for purposes of small-talk was almost unbearable to her, and there was visible annoyance in her face as she stepped into the light.
When they are contracted the defects of their armour is most visible in those who have it composed of the smallest number of pieces; the three banded then shews two large voids betwixt the bucklers and the armour on the back.
The performer now takes the smaller bottle in one hand--holding the tumbler beneath it as well, by means of a finger through the hole--and the visible tumbler in the other.
On removing the hand the poker falls, but, after two or three fruitless attempts, it remains standing without the aid of any visible support.
Without any visible preparation, and from no conceivable source, the performer produces hundreds of flags with the hands.
To this end, the movement of the right hand must be exceedingly rapid, so that all the cards arevisible to the spectators at once; and the longer the left hand dallies, the more rapid must be its motion towards the right hand.
As his sleeves are turned well up, and nothing has been visible in either hand, the mysterious appearance of the required article is quite inexplicable.
The visible tumbler is now placed upon one side table and covered with the large cover, containing the shell.
In palming, avoid all contraction of the muscles of the back of the hand, which is visible to the audience, or a clue to the solution of the trick will be given.
The result was the not unnatural one of a stoppage and visible embarrassment on the part of the performer.
Asking permission, and taking it at once, the wand is waved in the direction of the visible flowers, and the button-hole then touched with it, when instantly a flower appears.
This will cause nothing but the backs of the cards to be visible at both top and bottom.
The visible numbers will then be six-four and three-one.
Nothing was visible but a small, ragged puncture, bluish about the edges, as if the rough point of a tenpenny nail had been forced into the flesh, and withdrawn.
No small difference, also, would be visible in the wardrobe of both officers and men.
But finding no harm to come of it, neither visible form approaching, I wiped my forehead, and hoped for the best, and resolved to run every step of the way, till I drew our own latch behind me.
The honest country folk failed to discover any visible means of his making money, although they saw that he spent it pretty freely.
Israel walked quickly, tracing his course between the two arms of the Jebel Sheshawan, whose summits were visible against the sky.
There was something fascinating and magical in the spectacle of the beautiful fair face aglow with joy, the rounded limbs (visible through the robes) clinging to the sides of the harp, and the delicate white fingers flying across the strings.
Gale and Warren Shannon (usually the life of the party) were seen in dejected heaps, with only half-closed eyes visible above the steamer robes.
